Parallel Verses New International Version So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. King James Bible And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Darby Bible Translation And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and spacious land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. World English Bible I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Young's Literal Translation and I go down to deliver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to cause it to go up out of the land, unto a land good and broad, unto a land flowing with milk and honey -- unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Exodus 3:8 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleAnd I am come down to deliver them - This is the very purpose for which I am now come down upon this mountain, and for which I manifest myself to thee. Large - land - Canaan, when compared with the small tract of Goshen, in which they were now situated, and where, we learn, from Exodus 1:7, they were straitened for room, might be well called a large land. See a fine description of this land Deuteronomy 8:7. A land flowing with milk and honey - Excellent for pasturage, because abounding in the most wholesome herbage and flowers; and from the latter an abundance of wild honey was collected by the bees. Though cultivation is now almost entirely neglected in this land, because of the badness of the government and the scantiness of the inhabitants, yet it is still good for pasturage, and yields an abundance of honey. The terms used in the text to express the fertility of this land, are commonly used by ancient authors on similar subjects. It is a metaphor taken from a breast producing copious streams of milk. Homer calls Argos ουθαρ αρουρης, the breast of the country, as affording streams of milk and honey, Il. ix., ver. 141. So Virgil: Prima tulit tellus, eadem vos ubere laeto Accipiet. Aen., lib. iii., ver. 95. "The land that first produced you shall receive you again into its joyous bosom." The poets feign that Bacchus, the fable of whom they have taken from the history of Moses, produced rivers of milk and honey, of water and wine: - Ῥει δε γαλακτι πεδον, Ῥει δ' οινῳ, ῥει δε μελισσαν Νεκταρι. Eurip. Bacch., Εποδ., ver. 8. "The land flows with milk; it flows also with wine; it flows also with the nectar of bees, (honey)." This seems to be a mere poetical copy from the Pentateuch, where the sameness of the metaphor and the correspondence of the descriptions are obvious. Place of the Canaanites, etc. - See Genesis 15:18, etc. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I am. Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I die: and God will surely visit you... Psalm 18:9-19 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet... Psalm 22:4,5 Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them... Psalm 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him. John 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. deliver. Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I die: and God will surely visit you... unto a good. Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water... Deuteronomy 27:3 And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you are passed over... Canaanites. Library June 7. "When Ye Go; Ye Shall not Go Empty" (Ex. Iii. 21). "When ye go; ye shall not go empty" (Ex. iii. 21). When we are really emptied He would have us filled with Himself and the Holy Spirit. It is very precious to be conscious of nothing good in ourselves; but, oh, are we also conscious of His great goodness? We may be ready to admit our own disability, but are we as ready to admit His ability? There are many Christians who can say, "We are not sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves"; but the number I fear is very small who can say, … Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth Fourth Day. Holiness and Revelation. The Incarnation. Philo of Alexandria, the Rabbis, and the Gospels - the Final Development of Hellenism in Its Relation to Rabbinism and the Gospel According to St. John. Cross References Genesis 11:5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. Genesis 15:13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. Genesis 15:19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Genesis 18:21 that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know." Genesis 46:4 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph's own hand will close your eyes." Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites--a land flowing with milk and honey.' 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