Num 14:8, Deu 7:7-8, 1Sa 12:22, Mal 1:2-3, Rom 9:10-15 | ESV | STEP | If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey .

q Deut. 32:4; 2 Chr. 19:7; Job 8:3; 34:10; Ps. 92:15

Numbers 14:8

8 If ^athe Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, ^ba land that flows with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 7:7-8

7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but ^cit is because the Lord loves you and is keeping ^dthe oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

1 Samuel 12:22

22 ^eFor the Lord will not forsake his people, ^ffor his great name’s sake, because ^git has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.

Malachi 1:2-3

The Lord’s Love for Israel

2 ^h“I have loved you,” says the Lord. ⁱBut you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau ^jJacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet ^kI have loved Jacob 3 but Esau I have hated. ^lI have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Romans 9:10-15

10 And not only so, but ^malso when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of ⁿhim who calls— 12 she was told, ^o“The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, ^p“Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

14 What shall we say then? ^qIs there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, ^r“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”