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land flowing with milk and honey

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land flowing with milk and honey
promised by God to afflicted Israelites. [O.T.: Exodus 3:8; 13:5]
See : Luxury


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See, this is what the Lord God says, 'Enter into the good land, which the Lord swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and receive it as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.
nbsp;GOD PROMISED TO deliver the Hebrews from poverty and slavery, leading them into "a land flowing with milk and honey," a land in which there would be no poor in their midst.
This same nation later spent 40 years in the desert and was guilty of many misdeeds but was rewarded with ``a land flowing with milk and honey,'' because of the determination and patience of Moses, its leader.
 
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