100 Bible Verses About The Promised Land
Bible verses about The Promised Land
Exploring the concept of the Promised Land through scripture offers more than just a historical journey; it unveils a timeless spiritual truth. It's a narrative echoing our own pursuit of purpose, belonging, and divine fulfillment. By studying these verses, we discover that the Promised Land represents not merely a geographical location, but a state of being—a place of peace, abundance, and unwavering faith in God's promises. As you delve into these passages, consider how the yearning for the Promised Land resonates within your own heart, inspiring you to trust in God's guidance and strive towards the ultimate inheritance He has prepared for you.
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Psalms 107:4 (KJV)
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Explore God's Promise: Bible Verses on Promised Land
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
This day came ye out in the month Abib.
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.
Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.
I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
And they departed from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.
And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.
And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?
And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije–abarim, in the border of Moab.
These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan.
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.
Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh–barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
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 giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath said.
So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
The Bible's verses about the Promised Land are more than just historical accounts of land acquisition; they represent a profound spiritual journey. From God's initial covenant with Abraham promising a land flowing with milk and honey to the Israelites' arduous journey through the wilderness and eventual arrival, these passages highlight themes of faith, obedience, divine provision, and the fulfillment of promises. The Promised Land symbolizes not only physical rest and prosperity but also the ultimate destination of God's people – a place of spiritual abundance and eternal communion with Him. Reflecting on these verses, we can consider how God calls us to leave behind our "wilderness" experiences and embrace the promises He has for us. Just as the Israelites faced challenges and temptations, we too must persevere in faith, trusting in God's guidance and provision as we journey towards our own "Promised Land," both in this life and in eternity.