and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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And He hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 26:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 3:8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Joshua 23:14 “Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.
- 1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
- Psalms 105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
- Psalms 107:7-8 he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in. Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
- Ezekiel 20:6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
- Ezekiel 20:15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
- Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he hath brought us unto this place,.... After…
And he hath brought us unto this place,.... After forty years travel through the wilderness:
and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey; an usual description of the land of Canaan, because of the great fertility of it, and the abundance of good things in it; see Exo 3:8.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. hath brought us into this place] Deu_1:31, Deu_9:7.…
9. hath brought us into this place] Deu_1:31, Deu_9:7. As Cullen remarks, this phrase is not used for the Promised Land in 12–25, in which place means the One Sanctuary, see Deu_12:5.
flowing with milk and honey] Deu_6:3. Once nomads, they are now settled cultivators of a fertile land, in token of which guidance and the blessings it has brought them to, he continues—
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