Exodus 3:8

New Living Translation

So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Cross References

Genesis 11:5

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

Genesis 11:7

Come, let’s go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

Genesis 15:14

But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.

Genesis 18:21

I am going down to see if their actions are as wicked as I have heard. If not, I want to know.”

Genesis 43:11

So their father, Jacob, finally said to them, “If it can’t be avoided, then at least do this. Pack your bags with the best products of this land. Take them down to the man as gifts—balm, honey, gum, aromatic resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Genesis 46:4

I will go with you down to Egypt, and I will bring you back again. You will die in Egypt, but Joseph will be with you to close your eyes.”

Genesis 50:24

“Soon I will die,” Joseph told his brothers, “but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

1 Chronicles 1:15

Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

Nehemiah 9:8

When he had proved himself faithful, you made a covenant with him to give him and his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. And you have done what you promised, for you are always true to your word.

Psalm 12:5

The Lord replies, “I have seen violence done to the helpless, and I have heard the groans of the poor. Now I will rise up to rescue them, as they have longed for me to do.”

Psalm 12:6

The Lord’s promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over.

Psalm 34:8

Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!

Psalm 91:15

When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them.

Exodus 12:41

In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the Lord’s forces left the land.

Exodus 12:51

On that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.

Exodus 13:5

You must celebrate this event in this month each year after the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites. (He swore to your ancestors that he would give you this land—a land flowing with milk and honey.)

Exodus 3:17

I have promised to rescue you from your oppression in Egypt. I will lead you to a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.”’

Exodus 34:11

But listen carefully to everything I command you today. Then I will go ahead of you and drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Exodus 5:23

Ever since I came to Pharaoh as your spokesman, he has been even more brutal to your people. And you have done nothing to rescue them!”

Isaiah 36:17

Then I will arrange to take you to another land like this one—a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 64:1

Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence!

Jeremiah 11:5

I said this so I could keep my promise to your ancestors to give you a land flowing with milk and honey—the land you live in today.’” Then I replied, “Amen, Lord! May it be so.”

Jeremiah 2:7

“And when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and goodness, you defiled my land and corrupted the possession I had promised you.

Jeremiah 32:22

You gave the people of Israel this land that you had promised their ancestors long before—a land flowing with milk and honey.

Ezekiel 20:6

I took a solemn oath that day that I would bring them out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them—a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.

Leviticus 20:24

But I have promised you, ‘You will possess their land because I will give it to you as your possession—a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from all other people.

Amos 2:10

It was I who rescued you from Egypt and led you through the desert for forty years, so you could possess the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 13:18

See what the land is like, and find out whether the people living there are strong or weak, few or many.

Numbers 13:19

See what kind of land they live in. Is it good or bad? Do their towns have walls, or are they unprotected like open camps?

Numbers 13:27

This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.

John 3:13

No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the Son of Man has come down from heaven.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.

Deuteronomy 1:25

They picked some of its fruit and brought it back to us. And they reported, ‘The land the Lord our God has given us is indeed a good land.’

Deuteronomy 1:7

It is time to break camp and move on. Go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the neighboring regions—the Jordan Valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain. Go to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, and all the way to the great Euphrates River.

Deuteronomy 27:3

Write this whole body of instruction on them when you cross the river 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 28:11

“The Lord will give you prosperity in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, blessing you with many children, numerous livestock, and abundant crops.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Listen closely, Israel, and be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the 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 about to enter and occupy, he will clear away many nations ahead of you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. These seven nations are greater and more numerous than you.

Joshua 5:6

The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the Lord, and the Lord vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us—a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 9:1

Now all the kings west of the Jordan River heard about what had happened. These were the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who lived in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far north as the Lebanon mountains.

Joshua 9:7

The Israelites replied to these Hivites, “How do we know you don’t live nearby? For if you do, we cannot make a treaty with you.”