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Numbers 14:8

And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Caleb;   Canaan;   Courage;   Decision;   Disobedience to God;   Faith;   Government;   Israel;   Joshua;   Majority and Minority Reports;   Reports;   Trouble;   Thompson Chain Reference - Caleb;   Canaan, Land of;   Confidence, False;   Faith-Unbelief;   Joshua;   Land;   Promised Land;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Gifts of God, the;   Joy of God over His People, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Mediator;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Joshua the son of nun;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Delight;   Land (of Israel);   Wealth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Oshea;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hexateuch;   Israel;   Joshua;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Honey;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Caleb;   Numbers as Symbols;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Caleb;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Delight;   Numbers, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Benjamin;   Bozrah;   Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
King James Version
If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Lexham English Bible
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey.
New Century Version
If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land and give us that fertile land.
New English Translation
If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land that is flowing with milk and honey.
Amplified Bible
"If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
New American Standard Bible
"If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land which flows with milk and honey.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If the Lorde loue vs, he will bring vs into this land, and giue it vs, which is a land that floweth with milke and honie.
Legacy Standard Bible
If Yahweh is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land which flows with milk and honey.
Contemporary English Version
If we obey the Lord , he will surely give us that land rich with milk and honey.
Complete Jewish Bible
(iii) If Adonai is pleased with us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us — a land flowing with milk and honey.
Darby Translation
If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;
Easy-to-Read Version
It is a land filled with many good things. If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land. And he will give that land to us.
English Standard Version
If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
George Lamsa Translation
If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows indeed with milk and honey.
Good News Translation
If the Lord is pleased with us, he will take us there and give us that rich and fertile land.
Christian Standard Bible®
If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us.
Literal Translation
If Jehovah has delighted in us, then He will bring us into this land and will give it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf the LORDE haue lust vnto vs, he shal brynge vs in to the same londe, & geue it vs, which is a lade that floweth with mylke & hony.
American Standard Version
If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If the Lord haue a loue to vs, he will bryng vs into this lande and geue it vs, whiche is such a lande as floweth with mylke and hony.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us--a land which floweth with milk and honey.
King James Version (1611)
If the Lord delight in vs, then he will bring vs into this land, and giue it vs, a land which floweth with milke and hony.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If the Lord choose us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
English Revised Version
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Berean Standard Bible
If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
if the Lord is merciful to vs, he schal lede vs in to it, and schal yyue `to vs the lond flowynge with mylk and hony.
Young's Literal Translation
if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;
Update Bible Version
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
Webster's Bible Translation
If the LORD delighteth in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
World English Bible
If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
New King James Version
If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, 'a land which flows with milk and honey.' Exodus 3:8">[fn]
New Living Translation
And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.
New Life Bible
If the Lord is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us. It is a land which flows with milk and honey.
New Revised Standard
If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If Yahweh delight in us, then will he bring us into this and, and give it unto us, - A land which doth flow with milk and honey.
Douay-Rheims Bible
If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.
Revised Standard Version
If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us—a land which flows with milk and honey.

Contextual Overview

5 Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people. 6 And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief, 7 Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land. 8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 9 Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them. 10 But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

delight: Deuteronomy 10:15, 2 Samuel 15:25, 2 Samuel 15:26, 2 Samuel 22:20, 1 Kings 10:9, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 147:10, Psalms 147:11, Isaiah 62:4, Jeremiah 32:41, Zephaniah 3:17, Romans 8:31

a land which: Numbers 13:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:8 - unto a good Exodus 33:3 - a land Deuteronomy 1:21 - fear not Deuteronomy 27:3 - a land Joshua 14:12 - if so be 2 Kings 18:32 - like your own Psalms 44:3 - because Jeremiah 2:7 - brought Ezekiel 20:6 - flowing

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
Genesis 14:2
They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).
Genesis 14:3
All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).
Genesis 14:10
Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
Genesis 19:20
This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.
Genesis 19:22
Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight in them as he had, and as appears by what he had done for, them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; see Deuteronomy 10:15;

then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, as he has promised,

a land which floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord himself hath described it, and as the unbelieving spies themselves had owned it;

Numbers 13:27.


 
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