APAD: Land of Milk and Honey

Meaning:

A place of good things. Can also be used to mean a situation that is extremely

good.

 

Background:

Example: 'Ever since they won the lottery they've been living in the land of

milk and honey.'

 

Source/Early Use:

So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring

them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk

and honey - the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites

and Jebusites.

 

- Exodus 3.8.

 

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The phrase is used more than 20 times in the KJV, according to David Crystal,

and the collocation of "milk and honey" has become a perennial target for

wordplay, e.g., "The US: a land of milk and honey and mass obesity" headlined an

article in 2000 and "Milk 'n' Honey" was the name of a London kosher restaurant.

 

I was awestruck staring from 30000ft above at the verdant Canadian prairie to

the east of Rockies. As we slowly descended for landing, the earth took on the

look of a giant chessboard with each square a thousand-acre farm. Milk and honey

would follow, the country sure had land!

Remember this well, the promised land to the Jews

The promised land: 流奶与蜜之地，迦南美地～～

Don't quite get it though. IMO, that land was overhyped!

God promised a war-zone :-)

God-promised land to Jews. But it is realized through a

genocide war. Local people were all killed or enslaved

genocide war. God at that time was still Jews’ family god.

Yeah. That's the strength of a story :-(

turned out the chosen people kept breaching the contracts

with God.

We all dream to live in the land of milk and honey :)

beside the conflicts, anywhere else soil seems more fertile

Aren't we already landed? :-)

How about potentially great, but a little uncertain /risky?

That's a good question!

For a well-told story, people risk their lives. All the time

Yeah. The Lord's been hard to please :-)

I'd be thankful for a boatload of porcini :-)

or was the most fertile at the era of the biblical time

Then they move to an area and multiply...

我问上面的问题，心里面是有例子和真问题的。比如说，对于那些“走线”来美国的人，我们是不是可以贴切地说：

They are going / coming to a land of milk and honey.

haha, that is a good one!

Of course. Positively. But that's only my opinion :-)

I'm still struggling to adapt to this "land of milk&honey":)

Love your last paragraph! So well-written!

Thank you, my friend. It took me a while:-)

Milk and Honey

I'm headed to a place where the rivers flow

I'm headed to a place where the streets are gold

Oh my soul (oh my soul)

This I know (this I know)

You won't need no money, you can't bring your fame

Soon the day is coming when we will see His face

Choirs will be singing, saints on bended knee

Angels will be dancing, we will all be free

God in all His glory as far as you can see

It's like every day is Sunday in the Land of Milk & Honey.

Why not a land of milk&bread？：）

Elmo wanted Christmas everyday :-)

Sure, had M&B been in the Bible instead of M&H :-)

MYSJ is a Land of Milk and Honey :)

这个好记。最后一段写得真好。 学习了awestruck ,verdant 两个新词

Exodus年代，中东是否还没有任何农业化不懂种植，只有畜牧业，不知面包为何物？？

It's a nourishing place for every taste :-)

Thanks for reading and liking.

We have different strokes for different folks!