If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
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If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.
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If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us — a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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- 2 Samuel 22:20 He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- Isaiah 62:4 You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
- Numbers 13:27 They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
- Deuteronomy 10:15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
- Psalms 147:10-11 He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
- Romans 8:31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- 1 Kings 10:9 Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
- Psalms 22:8 “He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
- Zephaniah 3:17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
- Jeremiah 32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”
- 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.
- 2 Samuel 15:25-26 The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in Yahweh’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation; but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain If by our rebellion and ingratitude we do not…
If by our rebellion and ingratitude we do not provoke God to loathe and forsake us.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight…
If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight in them as he had, and as appears by what he had done for, them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; see Deu 10:15,
then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, as he has promised:
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a land which floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord himself hath described it, and as the unbelieving spies themselves had owned it; Num 13:27.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Delight in us - If by our rebellion and…
Delight in us - If by our rebellion and ingratitude we do not provoke God to leave and forsake us.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 14:8-9. If the Lord delight in us —…
Num 14:8-9. If the Lord delight in us — If by our rebellion and ingratitude we do not provoke God to leave and forsake us. They are bread for us — We shall destroy them as easily as we eat our bread. Their defence — Their conduct and courage, and especially God, who was pleased to afford them his protection, till their iniquities were full, is utterly departed from them, and hath given them up as a prey to us. The Lord is with us — By his special grace and almighty power, to save us from them and all our enemies. Only rebel not against the Lord — Nothing can ruin sinners but their own rebellion. If God leave them, it is because they drive him from them, and they die, because they will die.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain a land flowing with milk and honey--a general expression,…
a land flowing with milk and honey--a general expression, descriptive of a rich and fertile country. The two articles specified were among the principal products of the Holy Land.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. If the Lord delight in us — Here…
8. If the Lord delight in us — Here Joshua and Caleb revealed the ground of their confidence — the ability of Jehovah to make good his promise, which they viewed not as absolute, but as conditioned upon the demeanour of the nation. The weakness of the report of the ten lies in its Godlessness. In estimating the possibility of the conquest Jehovah is counted out.
Milk and honey — This is a poetical description of a country rich in pasturage and flowers. For the abundance of honey in ancient Canaan see Jdg_14:8; 1Sa_14:25-26; of both wheat and honey, see Psa_81:16. Sceptics, in view of the comparative sterility of modern Palestine, allege that this must be a false view of Canaan, and they question the inspiration of the Scriptures containing this oft-repeated statement. But there are causes which make modern Palestine barren: 1.) The destruction of the timber in the long series of sieges and invasions which that unhappy land has suffered has greatly reduced the moisture of the atmosphere by cutting off evaporation through the leaves. Hence rains are less frequent, and the sources of artificial irrigation are diminished. 2.) The decay of the terraces necessary to retain the soil on the steep slopes of the round hills. This is owing to the misrule and lack of security to the fruits of industry which have for generations been the lot of the cultivators.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain If the Lord delight in us. An expression used…
If the Lord delight in us. An expression used by Moses himself. (Deu_10:15) It did indeed place the whole matter in the only right light; all the doubt that could possibly exist was the doubt implied in that "if."
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