is it because they think it's flowing with milk and honey?
2006-10-07 07:50:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The U.S. is the land of opportunity for many of the people who immigrated here from their oppressive countries back during the 1800's. It is merely an expression that means that life is better in the United States than in their impovished situations back in the Old World, just like the idea that the streets of America are paved in gold.
2006-10-07 07:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by analystdevil 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God tried to get the pharaoh to release his people who were suffering building all those pyramids and general slavery. God wanted Moses to lead them to the land of milk and honey. exodus 3:8. This was before God launched all those plagues (watch the 10 Commandments with Charleton Heston) I believe they were not good and began to worship a golden calf and God got a little angry after everything he did FOR them and they started to worship a golden calf. Oh no, God wasn't having it and he had them wondering around the desert for 40 years. As for the reference to the land of milk and honey is because American's feel they have the best of everything. there is no life any where better than this. But who's to say because if you are not used to having what American's have how could you possibly miss it. I can't miss a million dollars if I never had one to begin with. I may want to have the money but if I never have it I won't die.
2006-10-07 09:13:59 · answer #2 · answered by bonitabertrell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel is the land promised to the Jewish human beings. for that reason on my own, that's particular to them. yet God bestowed large wealth and prosperity on Israel of their fatherland. They needed for no longer some thing even as they were dependable to God and cared for through him. in the tale of Jacob sending his sons to Egypt, the finest element of the tale develop into so that that they had be considered through their brother, Joseph, who that they had offered into slavery. do not ignore that Joseph interpreted a dream that suggested there'd be seven years of plenty, then seven years to famine. in elementary words through his practise develop into Egypt in a position to keep up nutrition for Jacob to deliver his sons to purchase. Ezekiel predicts that this kind of day of wealth is coming again for Israel; the prediction is that Israel will be wealthier than she develop into in the days of Solomon. There are truly 2 intense tries underway to locate oil in Israel depending upon Biblical clues. curiously, God would not view Egypt as a particular position. each and every time that Egypt seems in scripture, it symbolizes a leaving of God's will, a journey into non secular desolation. heavily. seem it up.
2016-12-04 09:19:53 · answer #3 · answered by geiser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a saying started by Dairy Farmers & Bee Keepers.
2006-10-07 09:14:29 · answer #4 · answered by donronsen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cause they "Milk" you of your hard earned money and that ain't funny "Honey"-lol
2006-10-07 08:01:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, don't be daft, Ireland was known as the 'Land of milk and honey'. You might be confused, US is known as 'Milk them of their money'...................
2006-10-07 08:01:31 · answer #6 · answered by thomasrobinsonantonio 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a quasi-Biblical reference.
2006-10-07 08:06:37 · answer #7 · answered by blktiger@pacbell.net 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its because just too many sweet and sexy gals there....more than other country i guess.
2006-10-07 07:53:30 · answer #8 · answered by the withness 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋