Numbers 14:8

If Yahweh is pleased with us, then he will take us into this land and give it to us. The land flows with milk and honey.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7They spoke to all the community of the people of Israel. They said, “The land that we passed through and examined is a very good land.

9But do not rebel against Yahweh, and do not fear the people in the land, for they are bread to us. Their protection will be removed from them, because Yahweh is with us. Do not fear them.”

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Cross References

Exodus 3:8I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 10:15Only Yahweh took pleasure in your fathers so as to love them, and he chose you, their descendants, after them, more than any of the other peoples, as he does today.

2 Samuel 15:25The king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me back here and show me again the ark and the place where he lives.

1 Kings 10:9May Yahweh your God be praised, who has taken pleasure in you, who placed you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, he has made you king, for you to do justice and righteousness!”

Psalms 22:8They say, “He trusts in Yahweh; 1 let Yahweh rescue him. 1 Let him rescue him, for he delights in him.” 1

Psalms 147:11Yahweh takes pleasure in those who honor him, 1 who hope in his covenant faithfulness. 1

Matthew Henry on Numbers 14:6-11

The Expostulation of Joshua and Caleb. ( b. c. 1490.) 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 8 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it… Read the whole commentary →

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