Treasury of Scripture
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Exodus 3:8,17 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good land and a large...
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you in to the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob...
a land Milk and honey were the chief dainties of the ancients as they are now among the Arabs, particularly the Bedouins. Hence not only the Hebrews, but also the Greeks and Romans, painted the highest pleasantness and fertility by an abundance of milk and honey. The image used in the text, and frequently by ancient authors on similar subjects, is a metaphor, derived from a {breast}, producing copious streams of milk.
Leviticus 20:26 And you shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine.
Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people...
Exodus 33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and your people have found grace in your sight? is it not in that you go with us?...
Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: see, the people shall dwell alone...
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are an holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people to himself...
Deuteronomy 14:2 For you are an holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to himself...
1 Kings 8:53 For you did separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be your inheritance...
John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world...
2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people...