Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:6

6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them to bring them forth of the land of Egpyt, into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey; which is the glory of all lands.

After the manner of man, God speaks, as if he had been the spie to go from place to place to search out the best, and to appoint it for them, it was his wise, and good providence, which assigned this land to them.

Makes every Countrey desireable.

Litterally Milk, and Honey in abundance were in the Land of Canaan, and continued till this fruitful Land was turned into barrenness, for the sins of its inhabitants. Proverbially it speaks the choicest, best, the most useful, and pleasant, and the plenty and abundance of all these blessings for Life, and [illegible: 1 letter]o to be here taken, and though the whole Countrey in the utmost extent of it, as proposed for Israel, (whose sins kept them out of much of it) were naturally a fruitful Land, yet this great plenty was more from the special favour, and blessing of God.

Marginal references: Psal. 48.2. Dan. 8.9. and 11.16.