Deuteronomy 8:7-8

8:7 For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, ¹  springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Deuteronomy 11:11-12

11:11 Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy ²  is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains, ³  11:12 a land the Lord your God looks after. ⁴  He is constantly attentive to it ⁵  from the beginning to the end of the year. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ⁷  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ⁸  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ⁹  the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ¹⁰  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

¹ tn Or “wadis.”

² tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”

³ tn Heb “rain of heaven.”

⁴ tn Heb “seeks.” The statement reflects the ancient belief that God (Baal in Canaanite thinking) directly controlled storms and rainfall.

⁵ tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it” (so NIV); NASB, NRSV “always on it.”

⁶ sn From the beginning to the end of the year. This refers to the agricultural year that was marked by the onset of the heavy rains, thus the autumn. See note on the phrase “the former and the latter rains” in v. 14.

⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

⁸ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

⁹ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

¹⁰ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”