Deuteronomy 12:20

When God enlarges Israel's borders, they may freely eat meat whenever they desire it. God grants liberty in everyday food.

Cross-references · 23

• Deut 19:8And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
• Deut 11:24Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
• Exod 34:24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.
• 1 Chr 4:10And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.
• Gen 28:14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
• Gen 15:18–21On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
• Deut 12:15But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
• Exod 23:31And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
• Ps 107:9For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
• Ps 63:1A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
• Num 11:20but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
• Num 11:34So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
• Ps 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Ps 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
• Phil 1:8God is my witness how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor 9:14And their prayers for you will express their affection for you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.
• Gen 31:30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
• 2 Sam 13:39And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
• Num 11:4Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
• 2 Sam 23:15David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
• Ps 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
• Ps 119:174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
• Phil 2:26For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.

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