Verse 17

Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:13-14 : 13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock; 14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
  • Job 29:6 : 6 When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.
  • Ps 36:8-9 : 8 The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures. 9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.
  • Ps 81:16 : 16 I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
  • Isa 7:15 : 15 Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.
  • Isa 7:22 : 22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.
  • Isa 41:17 : 17 The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.
  • Jer 17:6-8 : 6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land. 7 A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. 8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.
  • Luke 16:24 : 24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,
  • 2 Sam 17:29 : 29 And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.
  • Num 14:23 : 23 They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.