Looking simply through the eyes of the curious first-time traveler, the land of the Bible is a wondrous realm of spectacular contrasts. The Lord himself calls it the “land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands” (Ezek. 20:6). Elsewhere it is called “a good land” (Deut. 8:7), “the Beautiful Land” (Dan. 8:9; 11:16), “a delightful land” (Mal. 3:12), “the pleasant land” (Ps. 106:24; cf. Hos. 9:13), and “a desirable
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