Quiz: Bible Catchphrases

Within the biblical context the Promised Land means the land promised by God to the Jewish people (ancient Palestine) (the people were given this land after redemption from Egyptian slavery, after forty years of wandering in the wilderness): "... to the land which You swore to their fathers?..." (Num.11:12); "... go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers--to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob-to give to them and their descendants after them.́" (Deut.1:8). The apostle Paul referred to this land as the promised land (Hebrews 11:9). In modern secular usage, the promised land is a "favourable" (profitable, fertile, "warm") place.