The article explores the verse in the Old Testament, Exodus 3:8, wherein God promised the Hebrews of a land flowing with milk and honey. The phrase was used several times in the Old Testament to describe the fertility of the Promised Land. According to the author, the milk could probably...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionWhen I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my cove...
There are still other interpretations of the expression “flowing with milk and honey” that merit our consideration. In our portion, the mention of halav u’dvash is in a negative context: “For when I shall have brought them into the land of which I swore to their fathers, one flowing ...
Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook land flowing with milk and honey promised by God to afflicted Israelites. [O.T.: Exodus 3:8; 13:5] See:Luxury Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, ...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New King James Versionthat I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ as it is this day.”’” And I answered and said, “So be it, LORD.”King James BibleThat I may perform the oa...
flowing adj.流动的, 如流的 飘拂的 上涨的(潮)流畅的 flowing water 流水 flowing tide 涨潮 flowing garments 飘拂的衣裙 a land flowing with milk and honey 【圣】流乳与蜜的地方, 鱼米之乡 sail with a flowing sheet 【航海】放松帆脚减少风力, 慢开 flowing well 自喷井, 自流井 ...
Verse 9 presents us with a bit of a quandary. We are now told that "Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day." Based upon this assertion, eith...