obedient people. A disobedient generation finds itself under an oath counteracting for a time the promise of God (cf. the blessings and cursings of Deut 27–28). The promise itself is maintained and transmitted among the people in the first-person plural. It is an oath sworn to us. Flowing with milk and honey “describes the agricultural and pastoral abundance of Canaan.”685 Pitkänen points to a large apiary found at Tel Rehov from about 900 BCE regarded as the earliest apiary found in the ancient