What Does the Bible Say About Honey And Milk?

Song of Solomon 4:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 5:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!

Matthew 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Isaiah 7:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Proverbs 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

Psalm 19:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Exodus 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Luke 24:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes

They gave him a piece of broiled fish,

Isaiah 55:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Isaiah 25:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

Song of Solomon 4:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young. Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil. Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies. ...

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Psalm 119:103 ESV / 3 helpful votes

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

1 Samuel 14:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now when all the people came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Philippians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

John 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

John 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”

Matthew 8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Hosea 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

His shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

Ezekiel 27:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

Isaiah 55:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Isaiah 35:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Song of Solomon 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Song of Solomon 7:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

Song of Solomon 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.

Song of Solomon 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

Song of Solomon 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.

Song of Solomon 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”

Song of Solomon 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.

Song of Solomon 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices—

Song of Solomon 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,

Song of Solomon 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.

Song of Solomon 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.

Song of Solomon 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.

Song of Solomon 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not.

Song of Solomon 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

Proverbs 27:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.

Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.

Proverbs 24:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Psalm 81:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Psalm 37:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.

1 Samuel 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.

1 Samuel 14:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.

Judges 9:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’

Deuteronomy 32:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.

Deuteronomy 3:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’

Leviticus 20:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

Genesis 43:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

67 Bible Verses about Honey And Milk

Song of Solomon 4:11 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 5:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 7:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 19:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:42 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 4:1-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 119:103 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 14:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 12:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Matthew 8:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Hosea 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 27:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 55:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 81:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 14:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 9:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 32:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Leviticus 20:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 43:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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