Jeremiah 32:22
20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
21 You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.
You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
23 They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.
24 See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- KJV
- And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
- WEB
- and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- ASV
- and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
- DARBY
- and didst give them this land, which thou hadst sworn unto their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- BLB
- And You gave to them this land that You swore to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- ÅB
- og gav dem dette land som du hadde svoret deres fedre at du ville gi dem, et land som flyter med melk og honning.
- OTB
- Du ga dem dette landet Du hadde lovet deres forfedre, et land rikt og overflodsrikt.
- B1930
- og gav dem dette land som du hadde svoret deres fedre at du vilde gi dem, et land som flyter med melk og honning.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 13:5
And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
Read in contextExodus 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 11:5
This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:8
See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
Read in contextPsalms 105:9–11
the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
Read in contextExodus 3:17
And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Read in contextDeuteronomy 26:9–11
And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read in contextGenesis 15:18–21
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
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