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A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey




A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey

Exodus 3:8

Excerpt
The phrase a land flowing with milk means that Canaan was ideal for raising goats and cows. Feeding on good pastureland the goats, sheep, and cows were full of milk. Flowing with honey means that the bees were busy making honey. Milk and honey suggested agricultural prosperity. This is the first of numerous references in the Old Testament to the “land flowing with milk and honey” (cf. v. 1733:3Lev. 20:24Num. 13:2714:816:13-14;Deut. 6:311:926:91527:331:20Josh. 5:6Jer. 11:532:22Ezek. 20:615). More
Hannah, John D. “Exodus.” The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures. Ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck. Vol. 1. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985. 112. Print

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