Ezekiel 20:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

I lifted

Flowing

Ezekiel 20:6

General references

Numbers 13:27

Numbers 32:10

Revelation 10:6

Bible References

I lifted

"Futhermore, I solemnly swore in the wilderness to disperse them among the nations and scatter them to other lands

will ever see the land that I promised to their ancestors. Those who spurned me won't see it.

But none of these men among these numbered by Moses and by Aaron the priest (that is, when they numbered the Israelis in the wilderness of Sinai) survived to enter the land,

"When the LORD heard your complaints, he became angry and declared,

So in my anger I declared an oath: "They are not to enter my place of rest."

So he swore an oath concerning them that he would cause them to die in the wilderness,

So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest."

We who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, "So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest,"

Flowing

That day I promised to bring them out of the land of Egypt to the land that I had explored for them a land flowing with milk and honey. It's the most beautiful of all lands.

General references

"We arrived at the place where you've sent us," they reported, "and it certainly does flow with milk and honey. Furthermore, this is its fruit,

That's why the LORD's anger flared up that day and he promised by an oath that

He swore an oath by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: "There will be no more delay.