Bible Strands
Jeremiah 32:22
You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Jeremiah to the exiled community during the siege of Jerusalem, recounting the Exodus and the original grant of Canaan.
The words — The verb תִּתֵּן (ti.Ten, "you gave") and the participle נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ (nish.Ba'.ta, "you had sworn") anchor the verse's claim that the land grant was a prior divine commitment. These terms frame the possession of the territory as the fulfillment of a specific oath to the ancestors.
The thread — This land grant motif appears in Exodus 3:8 and Exodus 13:5 as the destination of the Exodus, and reappears in Jeremiah 11:5 to explicitly link the current disaster to the breach of that same ancestral oath.
Why it lands — The text records that God gave the land He promised, establishing a baseline of divine faithfulness before detailing the people's subsequent disobedience and the resulting disaster. It demands the reader acknowledge that the covenant grant remains historically true even as it highlights the consequences of violating that covenant.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Cross-references
- Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exodus 13:5 And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.
- Jeremiah 11:5 This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
- Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Deuteronomy 1:8 See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
- Psalms 105:9 the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
- Genesis 13:15 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Genesis 17:7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Genesis 24:7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.