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 19:8If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
• Deut 11:24Every place whereon the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.
• Exod 34:24For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.
• 1 Chr 4:10Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.
• Gen 28:14Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Gen 15:18–21In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Deut 12:15Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer.
• Exod 23:31I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
• Ps 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
• Ps 63:1A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
• Num 11:20but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
• Num 11:34The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
• Ps 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Ps 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
• Phil 1:8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor 9:14while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
• Gen 31:30Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”
• 2 Sam 13:39King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.
• Num 11:4The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?
• 2 Sam 23:15David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
• Ps 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
• Ps 119:174I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
• Phil 2:26since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

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