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Deuteronomy 8

Deuteronomy 8:12

lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

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  • WEB World English Bible

    lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

  • KJV King James Version

    Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Deuteronomy 8:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Proverbs 30:9 lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
  • Deuteronomy 28:47 Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
  • Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
  • Hosea 13:5-6 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
  • Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
  • Ecclesiastes 2:4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
  • Jeremiah 22:14-15 who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red. “Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
  • Amos 5:11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
  • Haggai 1:4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
  • Luke 17:28 Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
  • Ezekiel 11:3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

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Explain this verse (3 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 8:12 Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art…

Deu 8:12 Lest [when] thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein];

Ver. 12. And hast built goodly houses.] Haec sunt quae nos invitos faciunt mori. These are the things that make us loath to die, said the Emperor Charles V, to the Duke of Venice, who had showed him the stateliness of his palace and princely furniture.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply,.... Having…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) Hast built goodly houses.—One of the conditions prescribed…

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