Joshua 5:6

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, mustered as being able to bear arms in battle, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord; unto whom the Lord sware that He would not show them the land which the Lord sware unto their fathers that He would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey, Numbers 14:23. The extraordinary fertility of the country is here once more emphasized, as so often in the Old Testament, Exodus 3:8; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 16:14; Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27; Deuteronomy 1:3. The meadow-lands of Canaan, with their rich carpet of grasses and flowers, were well suited for the raising of herds and flocks, while the bees found the abundance of fragrant flowers with their rich nectar eminently satisfactory for the production of honey.