Ezekiel 20:15

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I 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.

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  • Ps 95:11 : 11 So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
  • Ps 106:26 : 26 So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the wilderness,
  • Ezek 20:23 : 23 I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
  • Heb 3:11 : 11 “As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”
  • Heb 3:18 : 18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?
  • Heb 4:3 : 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.
  • Num 14:23-30 : 23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it. 24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully– I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it. 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.” 26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron: 27 “How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me. 28 Say to them,‘As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 30 You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  • Num 26:64-65 : 64 But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the desert of Sinai. 65 For the LORD had said of them,“They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  • Deut 1:34-35 : 34 Judgment at Kadesh Barnea When the LORD heard you, he became angry and made this vow: 35 “Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

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  • Ezek 20:5-6
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    88%

    5and say to them:“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I chose Israel I swore to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore to them,“I am the LORD your God.”

    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.

  • Ezek 20:21-23
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    82%

    21“‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out(the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

    22But I refrained from doing so, and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

    23I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

  • Ezek 20:12-14
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    12I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the LORD, sanctify them.

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations(the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.

    14I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

  • Deut 31:20
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    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.

  • Jer 32:22
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    22You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors. You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Ezek 20:8-10
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    8But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

    9I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

    10“‘So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them to the wilderness.

  • Jer 11:5
    77%

    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!”

  • Josh 5:6
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    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.

  • Ezek 20:16-18
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    16I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

    17Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

    18“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness,“Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • 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.

  • Num 14:22-23
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    76%

    22For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

    23they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

  • Jer 2:6-7
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    6They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’

    7I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.

  • Exod 33:3
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    3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

  • Ezek 20:42
    76%

    42Then you will know that I am the LORD when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore to give to your fathers.

  • Lev 20:23-24
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    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

    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 26:9
    75%

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

  • Ezek 20:28
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    28I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

  • Num 14:8
    75%

    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.

  • 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.”

  • Num 32:10-11
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    10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,

    11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

  • Deut 11:9
    74%

    9and 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.

  • Num 14:16
    74%

    16‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

  • Exod 6:8
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    8I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob– and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’”

  • Ps 106:26
    74%

    26So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the wilderness,

  • Exod 6:4
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    4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.

  • Exod 3:17
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    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.”’

  • Amos 2:10
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    10I brought you up from the land of Egypt; I led you through the wilderness for forty years so you could take the Amorites’ land as your own.

  • Deut 4:21
    73%

    21But the LORD became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.

  • Num 16:14
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    14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

  • Deut 1:35
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    35“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

  • Deut 9:28
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    28Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

  • Lev 26:45
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    45I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the LORD.

  • Deut 6:23
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    23He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

  • Ezek 20:34
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    34I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!

  • Hos 13:5
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    5I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

  • Num 20:12
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    12The Lord’s Judgment Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,“Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”

  • Deut 1:25
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    25Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying,“The land that the LORD our God is about to give us is good.”