Deuteronomy 26:9

Modern

And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Traditional

And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Literal

And He has brought us to this place and has given to us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Latin

…et introduxit ad locum istum, et tradidit nobis terram lacte et melle manantem.

Hebrew

English

And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Under the covenant, God required his people to give him tribute every year, or even more often.

Because Israel was an agricultural society, God asked for offerings of animals, crops, or grain.

This tribute celebrated the great redemption of the Israelites during the exodus.

Theme notes and profiles

Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Psalm 107:7–8
He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
1 Samuel 7:12
Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
Joshua 23:14
Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
Acts 26:22
But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
Psalm 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,