Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 20:24
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.
Verse 24. A land that floweth with milk and honey] See this explained “Ex 3:8“.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
By my special grace and favour vouchsafed to you above all people, in glorious and miraculous works wrought for you and among you, and in ordinances and other singular privileges and blessings imparted to you, all which calls for your special love and service.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
24. I . . . have separated you fromother peopleTheir selection from the rest of the nations wasfor the all-important end of preserving the knowledge and worship ofthe true God amid the universal apostasy; and as the distinction ofmeats was one great means of completing that separation, the lawabout making a difference between clean and unclean beasts is hererepeated with emphatic solemnity.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But I have said unto you, ye shall inherit the land,…. Promised it unto them, as he had to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and also to them; or he had said the above things unto them, that they, observing them, might possess the land of Canaan, and continue therein, which is the sense of the Targum of Jonathan: the Jews say, that the right of inheritance belonged to them, from Shem the son of Noah, whose portion it was, and which they gather from Melchizedek being king of Salem, whom they take to be Shem; and they say, the Canaanites only dwelt in it to make it better, till they should come and inherit it:
and I will give it unto you to possess it; in whose gift it was, and who had a right to dispose of it; and could give them a good title to it, and secure them in the possession of it:
a land that floweth with milk and honey; abounding with all good things, with all the comforts of life, with everything both for necessity and delight; see Ex 3:8;
I [am] the Lord your God, which have separated you from [other] people; had chosen them above all people, to be a special and peculiar people to him; had distinguished them by his favours, and had given them particular laws and ordinances, to observe and walk according to them, different from all other nations, which it became them carefully to regard.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(24) But I have said unto you.That is, promised to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and also to you, that he would expel the Canaanites, and give the land to the Israelites as an inheritance.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
24. Milk and honey Both Grecian and Roman poets depict the highest pleasantness and fertility by an abundance of milk and honey. See Homer’s Iliad, 9: 141; Ovid, Met., i, iii; See Jos 5:6, note.
Separated you from other people This separation consisted in circumcision, a knowledge of the true God, a prohibition of idolatry, a unique sacrificial code, and the requirement to obey the moral and the levitical law, which rendered it impossible to mingle socially with the Gentiles without contracting pollution. This separation was subsequently made easier by the secluded position of the Holy Land, which was enclosed on the south and southwest by great wildernesses, on the north by the high mountains of Lebanon, and on the west by a seacoast having few harbours.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Lev 20:24 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.
Ver. 24. Separated you. ] With a wonderful separation; such as was that of light from darkness at the creation.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
But I: Exo 3:8, Exo 3:17, Exo 6:8
a land: Milk and honey were the chief dainties of the ancients as they are now among the Arabs, particularly the Bedouins. Hence not only the Hebrews, but also the Greeks and Romans, painted the highest pleasantness and fertility by an abundance of milk and honey. The image used in the text, and frequently by ancient authors on similar subjects, is a metaphor, derived from a breast, producing copious streams of milk.
which: Lev 20:26, Exo 19:5, Exo 19:6, Exo 33:16, Num 23:9, Deu 7:6, Deu 14:2, 1Ki 8:53, Joh 15:19, 2Co 6:17, 1Pe 2:9
Reciprocal: Gen 43:11 – honey Exo 33:3 – a land Num 13:27 – General Num 16:14 – Moreover Num 35:34 – Defile not Deu 27:3 – a land 1Sa 8:20 – General Neh 10:28 – all they Jer 11:5 – a land Eze 20:6 – flowing Rom 1:1 – separated
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that {i} floweth with milk and honey: I [am] the LORD your God, which have separated you from [other] people.
(i) Full of abundance of all things.