Deuteronomy 11:9

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and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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  • Exod 3:8 : 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”
  • Prov 10:27 : 27 Fearing the LORD prolongs life, but the life span of the wicked will be shortened.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
  • Deut 6:2 : 2 and that you may so revere the LORD your God that you will keep all his statutes and commandments that I am giving you– you, your children, and your grandchildren– all your lives, to prolong your days.
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Ps 34:12-22 : 12 Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? 13 Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech! 14 Turn away from evil and do what is right! Strive for peace and promote it! 15 The LORD pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help. 16 But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth. 17 The godly cry out and the LORD hears; he saves them from all their troubles. 18 The LORD is near the brokenhearted; he delivers those who are discouraged. 19 The godly face many dangers, but the LORD saves them from each one of them. 20 He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken. 21 Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished. 22 The LORD rescues his servants; all who take shelter in him escape punishment.
  • Prov 3:2 : 2 for they will provide a long and full life, and well-being for you.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
  • Prov 9:11 : 11 For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
  • Ezek 20:6 : 6 On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 6:3
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    3Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number– as the LORD, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Jer 32:22
    84%

    22You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 11:21
    84%

    21so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the LORD promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

  • Num 14:8
    82%

    8If 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.

  • Jer 11:5
    81%

    5Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.” That is the very land that you still live in today.’” And I responded,“Amen! Let it be so, LORD!”

  • Deut 26:9
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    9Then he brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 27:3
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    3Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to you.

  • Deut 26:15
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    15Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors– a land flowing with milk and honey.”

  • Deut 11:8
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    8The Abundance of the Land of Promise Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

  • Exod 13:5
    80%

    5When the LORD brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, then you will keep this ceremony in this month.

  • Deut 11:10-11
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    80%

    10For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

    11Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

  • Deut 1:8
    80%

    8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

  • Deut 30:20
    79%

    20I also call on you to love the LORD your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

  • Deut 8:1
    79%

    1The Lord’s Provision in the Desert You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors.

  • Deut 32:47
    79%

    47For this is no idle word for you– it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

  • Lev 20:24
    78%

    24So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

  • Deut 6:18
    78%

    18Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

  • Josh 5:6
    78%

    6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

  • Deut 11:31
    78%

    31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

  • Deut 28:11
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    11The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

  • Exod 13:11
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    11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Neh 9:15
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    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  • Deut 7:13
    77%

    13He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

  • Deut 8:7-9
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    77%

    7For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

    8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

    9a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

  • Josh 1:15
    76%

    15until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”

  • Deut 5:33
    76%

    33Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.

  • Deut 12:1
    76%

    1The Central Sanctuary These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.

  • Deut 30:16
    76%

    16What I am commanding you today is to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.

  • Exod 3:17
    76%

    17and I have promised that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

  • Josh 24:13
    76%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Deut 10:11
    76%

    11Then he said to me,“Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors.”

  • Deut 4:40
    76%

    40Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.”

  • Deut 19:8
    76%

    8If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

  • Deut 5:16
    76%

    16Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

  • Deut 30:5
    75%

    5Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

  • Deut 29:9
    75%

    9The Present Covenant Setting“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

  • Deut 31:20
    75%

    20For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors– one flowing with milk and honey– and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

  • Josh 14:9
    75%

    9That day Moses made this solemn promise:‘Surely the land on which you walked will belong to you and your descendants permanently, for you remained loyal to the LORD your God.’

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

  • Deut 4:38
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    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Josh 1:6
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    6Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them.

  • Exod 20:12
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    12“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

  • Ezek 20:15
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    15I also swore 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.

  • Ps 105:11
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    11saying,“To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”

  • Deut 6:10
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    10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

  • Eph 6:3
    74%

    3“that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”