Deuteronomy 8:12
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Context
This verse from Deuteronomy Chapter 8 connects to 10 cross-references. Moses calls Israel to remember the forty years of wilderness testing—where God humbled them, let them hunger, provided manna, and did not let their clothes wear out—to teach them that humans do not live by bread alone but by every …
Other Translations
lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;
And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
Cross References
Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all …
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk …
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then …
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, …
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is …
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and …
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
I did know thee 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 have they forgotten …