Quotes About Land

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.

If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”

not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—

those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.

But Edom answered, “You may not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.

even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”

and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

“Let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the Kingís Highway until we have passed through your territory.”