Promised Land
The land of Canaan that God promised to Abraham and his descendants as an eternal possession. Genesis 12:7 records the first promise: 'To your offspring I will give this land.' The promise was repeated to Isaac (Genesis 26:3), Jacob (Genesis 28:13), and the entire nation (Exodus 3:8). After forty years in the wilderness, Joshua led Israel across the Jordan to take possession (Joshua 1-12). The land flowing 'with milk and honey' (Exodus 3:8) symbolized God's abundant provision. Yet possession was conditional on covenant faithfulness (Deuteronomy 28). Hebrews 11:16 reinterprets the promise — the patriarchs longed for 'a better country, a heavenly one,' pointing to the new creation (Revelation 21).
Verses about Promised Land
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Exodus 12:25
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
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Numbers 14:34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, an…
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Deuteronomy 6:3
Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath…
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Deuteronomy 9:28
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hat…
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Deuteronomy 19:8
And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
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Deuteronomy 27:3
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God give…
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Joshua 22:4
And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the…
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Joshua 23:5
And the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your …
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Joshua 23:15
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you al…
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Nehemiah 9:23
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their father…
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same p…
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