dSee Gen. 50:24
ahSee Lev. 27:30
arSee Num. 21:21-31
asSee Num. 21:33-35
auSee Josh. 1–12
bbSee Deut. 8:7-10
Deuteronomy 8:7-9
7For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, aa land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 8a land of wheat and barley, bof vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.Deuteronomy 11:9-24
9and cthat you may live long in the land dthat the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, ea land flowing with milk and honey. 10For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, ▼▼Hebrew watered it with your feet
like a garden of vegetables. 11 gBut the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12a land that the Lord your God cares for. hThe eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 13“And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, ito love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 jhe ▼
▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15
will give the rain for your land in its season, lthe early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 15 mAnd he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and nyou shall eat and be full. 16Take care olest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and pserve other gods and worship them; 17then qthe anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he rwill shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and syou will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you. 18 t“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and uyou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20 vYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 wthat your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, xas long as the heavens are above the earth. 22For if yyou will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and zholding fast to him, 23then the Lord aawill drive out all these nations before you, and you will abdispossess nations greater and mightier than you. 24 acEvery place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be adfrom the wilderness to ▼
▼Hebrew and
the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. Deuteronomy 26:9-15
9And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, afa land flowing with milk and honey. 10And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O Lord, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the Lord your God and worship before the Lord your God. 11And agyou shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.12“When you have finished paying all ahthe tithe of your produce in the third year, which is aithe year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled, 13then you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, ajnor have I forgotten them. 14 akI have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it alto the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me. 15 amLook down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Deuteronomy 27:3
3 anAnd you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, aoa land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you.Deuteronomy 28:11
11And apthe Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in aqthe fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.Nehemiah 9:22-25
22“And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. arSo they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon asand the land of Og king of Bashan. 23You multiplied their children atas the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. 24 auSo the descendants went in and possessed the land, avand you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 25And they captured awfortified cities and axa rich land, and took possession of ayhouses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled azand became fat and delighted themselves in bayour great goodness.Jeremiah 2:7
7 bbAnd I brought you into a plentiful landto enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, bcyou defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 11:5
5 bdthat I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, beto give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.” Then I answered, “So be it, Lord.”
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