Exodus 3:8

New International Version

So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Cross References

Genesis 50:24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

Exodus 3:17

And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Deuteronomy 1:25

Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.”

Exodus 13:5

When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month:

Jeremiah 11:5

Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, Lord.”

Numbers 13:27

They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Psalm 91:15

He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

Exodus 12:51

And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

Jeremiah 32:22

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

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”

Deuteronomy 27:3

Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land 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 7:1

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Genesis 11:5

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

John 3:13

No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.

Isaiah 64:1

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!

Exodus 34:11

Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Genesis 18:21

that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

Genesis 15:14

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.

Joshua 9:1

Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)—

Deuteronomy 1:7

Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.

Numbers 13:19

What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified?

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

Genesis 46:4

I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.”

Exodus 5:23

Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.”

Exodus 12:41

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

Amos 2:10

I brought you up out of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness to give you the land of the Amorites.

Genesis 43:11

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

Leviticus 20:24

But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

Numbers 13:18

See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.

Joshua 5:6

The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 9:7

The Israelites said to the Hivites, “But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?”

1 Chronicles 1:15

Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

Psalm 12:6

And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times.

Isaiah 36:17

until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.