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 thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
• Deut 11:24Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
• Exod 34:24For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
• 1 Chr 4:10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
• Gen 28:14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Gen 15:18–21In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Deut 12:15Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
• Exod 23:31And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
• Ps 107:9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
• Ps 63:1O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
• Num 11:20But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
• Num 11:34And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
• Ps 84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
• Ps 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
• Phil 1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 9:14And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
• Gen 31:30And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
• 2 Sam 13:39And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
• Num 11:4And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
• 2 Sam 23:15And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
• Ps 119:20My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
• Ps 119:174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
• Phil 2:26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

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