Our friends had not yet arrived in Israel, so we made plans to see the Judean hills. A guide, Barak, met us at our hotel and drove us south into the ancient land of milk & honey.
We drove south into the Judean hills and the land once allocated to the tribe of Dan. Often we were within sight of or a very short distance from towns once visited by Samson. We skirted past Eshta’ol on the way to our first stop, an Israeli settlement called T’zora very near to the village where Samson was born.
We soon learned the land is abundant, not only in “milk and honey”’ but also in grain, vineyards, orchards, and other crops. At each of our stops, we were offered fruits of the land, from the vineyards, the olive orchards, the grain fields. We learned of the Jewish view of God's blessings on how the land will sustain His people. They have a proverb: "A liter of wine, a cup of olive oil, a bit of grain will sustain one each day."
It brought to mind the words of the psalmist, "You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth - wine to make them glad, olive oil to soothe their skin, and bread to give them strength" (Psalm 104:14-15).
We are looking forward to more of God's blessings.
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