Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore ¹  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ²  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ³  the most beautiful of all lands.

Ge 15:13,14; Ex 3:8,17; Ex 13:5; Ex 14:1-15:27; Ex 33:3; Le 20:24; Nu 13:27; Nu 14:8; De 6:3; De 8:7-9; De 11:9; De 11:11,12; De 26:9,15; De 27:3; De 31:20; De 32:8; De 32:13,14; Jos 5:6; Ps 48:2; Jer 11:5; Jer 32:22; Eze 20:5,15,23,42; Eze 20:15; Da 8:9; Da 11:16,41; Zec 7:14

¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

² 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.”

³ 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).