Numbers 14:8
If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Cross-references
Numbers 13:27 is the spies' report that first calls Canaan a land flowing with milk and honey—the phrase Caleb and Joshua repeat here.
Deuteronomy 10:15 affirms God set His affection on Israel's fathers, confirming the condition of delight in Numbers 14:8.
2 Samuel 15:25 echoes this same conditional trust: 'If I find favor... He will bring me back'—a parallel to the promised return.
2 Samuel 15:26 completes David's thought—if no delight, he submits—directly paralleling the 'if He delights' condition here.
2 Samuel 22:20 states God delivered David because He delighted in him—the same cause-effect as the promised deliverance here.
1 Kings 10:9 blesses God who delighted in Solomon to make him king—echoing the delight that leads to blessing in Numbers.
Psalm 22:8 mocks the sufferer with 'since He delights in him'—an ironic twist on the sincere conditional delight here.
Psalm 147:11 reveals what God delights in—those who fear Him—parallel to the condition for His delight in Numbers.
Exodus 3:8 is the original promise of a land flowing with milk and honey, which Caleb and Joshua echo here to encourage the people.
Ezekiel 20:6 explicitly recounts God's oath to bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey, the same promise Caleb trusts here.
Deuteronomy 27:3 again uses the phrase 'land flowing with milk and honey' as a reminder of God's promise, echoing the description here.
Joshua 14:12 shows Caleb later trusting God to give him the hill country, directly recalling the faith and promise from this passage.
In 2 Kings 18:32, the Assyrian envoy uses the same 'land of milk and honey' promise to deceive — contrasting God's genuine promise with an enemy's false one.
Jeremiah 2:7 recalls God bringing Israel to a plentiful land, but then they defiled it — showing the fulfillment and subsequent corruption of the promise.
Exodus 33:3 shows God giving the land despite displeasure, contrasting with the condition here that God's delight is required to enter.
Jeremiah 32:41 shows God rejoicing to plant His people in the land, mirroring the condition here that God's delight leads to inheriting Canaan.
Deuteronomy 1:21 repeats the command to go up and take possession without fear, reinforcing the same confidence Caleb and Joshua express here.
In Isaiah 62:4, God's delight in His people is renewed, paralleling the conditional promise here that His delight brings possession of the land.
Psalm 44:3 echoes that God gave the land because of His favor, not human strength — reinforcing that God's delight is the basis for the promise.
Zephaniah 3:17 describes God rejoicing over His people with gladness, echoing the same divine delight that here determines entry into the land.