Exodus 3:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Cross References

Genesis 11:5

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram: Know for certain that your descendants will reside as aliens in a land not their own, where they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

Genesis 15:14

But I will bring judgment on the nation they must serve, and after this they will go out with great wealth.

Genesis 18:21

that I must go down to see whether or not their actions are as bad as the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.

Genesis 43:11

Israel their father then told them: “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the land’s best products in your baggage and take them down to the man as gifts: some balm and honey, gum and resin, and pistachios and almonds.

Genesis 46:4

I will go down to Egypt with you and I will also bring you back here, after Joseph has closed your eyes.

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers: “I am about to die. God will surely take care of you and lead you up from this land to the land that he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

1 Chronicles 1:15

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful in your sight, you made the covenant with him To give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to him and his descendants. You fulfilled your promises, for you are just.

Psalm 12:5

Those who say, “By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can lord it over us?”

Psalm 12:6

“Because they rob the weak, and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will grant safety to whoever longs for it.”

Psalm 34:8

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he saves them.

Psalm 91:15

He will call upon me and I will answer; I will be with him in distress; I will deliver him and give him honor.

Exodus 12:41

At the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this very date, all the armies of the Lord left the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:51

On that same day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt company by company.

Exodus 13:5

Therefore, when the Lord, your God, has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perrizites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will perform the following service in this month.

Exodus 3:17

so I have decided to lead you up out of your affliction in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 34:11

As for you, observe what I am commanding you today. See, I am about to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Exodus 5:23

From the time I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has treated this people badly, and you have done nothing to rescue your people.”

Isaiah 36:17

until I arrive and take you to a land like your own, A land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 64:1

As when brushwood is set ablaze, or fire makes the water boil! Then your name would be made known to your enemies and the nations would tremble before you,

Jeremiah 11:5

Thus I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, the one you have today. “Amen, Lord,” I answered.

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into the garden land to eat its fine fruits, But you entered and defiled my land, you turned my heritage into an abomination.

Jeremiah 32:22

And you gave them this land, as you had sworn to their ancestors to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Ezekiel 20:6

That day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to the land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, a jewel among all lands.

Leviticus 20:24

But to you I have said: You shall take possession of their land. I am giving it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey. I, the Lord, am your God, who have set you apart from other peoples.

Amos 2:10

It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years, to occupy the land of the Amorites;

Numbers 13:18

and see what kind of land it is and whether the people living there are strong or weak, few or many.

Numbers 13:19

Is the country in which they live good or bad? Are the towns in which they dwell open or fortified?

Numbers 13:27

They told Moses: “We came to the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, and here is its fruit.

John 3:13

No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.

John 6:38

because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Deuteronomy 1:25

Then, taking along some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “The land the Lord, our God, is giving us is good.” Threats of Revolt.

Deuteronomy 1:7

Leave here and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the surrounding regions, the Arabah, the mountains, the Shephelah, the Negeb and the seacoast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon as far as the Great River, the Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 27:3

Write on them, at the time you cross, all the words of this law, so that you may enter the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will generously increase the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil, upon the land which the Lord swore to your ancestors he would give you.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly; for the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you a land flowing with milk and honey. The Great Commandment.

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which you are about to enter to possess, and removes many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—

Joshua 5:6

Now the Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness, until all the warriors among the people that came forth from Egypt died off because they had not listened to the voice of the Lord. For the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 9:1

When the news reached all the kings west of the Jordan, in the mountain regions and in the Shephelah, and all along the coast of the Great Sea as far as the Lebanon: Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,

Joshua 9:7

But the Israelites replied to the Hivites, “You may be living in land that is ours. How, then, can we make a covenant with you?”