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...
So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.Douay-Rheims BibleLuring the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice ...
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 ...
King James BibleFor when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my ...
These studies are non-denominational and are meant to get to the heart of each Bible verse. Simply read the questions and answer them from your Bible. These study guides can be used in classrooms, one-on-one Bible studies, for devotionals or reference materials. Let His word govern your ...
A magazine from a prosperous European land recently noted: “If keeping undesirable impulses under control requires an inner struggle on the part of those living under the agonizing circumstances of extreme poverty, how much more so is that true of those living in the land of milk and honey in...
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.” (Isaiah 7:21-22...
*+ 5 When Jehovah has brought you into the land of the Caʹnaan·ites, the Hitʹtites, the Amʹor·ites, the Hiʹvites, and the Jebʹu·sites,+ which he swore to your forefathers to give you,+ a land flowing with milk and honey,+ then you must keep this observance in ...
And you will have enough goats’ milk for yourself, your family, and your servant girls.English Standard VersionThere will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.Berean Standard BibleYou will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed ...
Verse 19. - Law of first-fruits. The first of the first-fruits may mean either "the best of the first-fruits" (see Numbers 18:12), or "the very first of each kind that is ripe" (ib, verse 13). On the tendency to delay, and not bring the very first, see the comment on ...