Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Promised Land

or Land of Promise. Canaan; so called because God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that their offspring should possess it.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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