Exodus 3:8

The Burning Bush

8 "So n I have come down to o deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land p to a good and large land, to a land q flowing with milk and honey, to the place of r the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 15:13 - 16
    Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
    Genesis 46:4
    "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes."
    Genesis 50:24
    And Joseph said to his brethren, "I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
    Genesis 50:25
    Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 6:6 - 8
    Therefore say to the children of Israel: 'I am the LORD; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
    Exodus 12:51
    And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 13:27
    Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
    Deuteronomy 1:25
    "They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying, ' It is a good land which the LORD our God is giving us.'
    Deuteronomy 8:7 - 9
    For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills.
    Joshua 3:17
    Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 3:17
    "and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
    Exodus 13:5
    And it shall be, when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
    Jeremiah 11:5
    "that I may establish the oath which I have sworn to your fathers, to give them 'a land flowing with milk and honey,' as it is this day." ' " And I answered and said, "So be it, LORD."
    Ezekiel 20:6
    On that day I raised My hand in an oath 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,' the glory of all lands.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 15:19 - 21
    The Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites.
    Joshua 24:11
    Then you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you - also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I delivered them into your hand.
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