Deuteronomy 8:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² lest you eat and shall be satisfied, and build lovely houses and shall dwell in them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Common English Bible

¹² When you eat, get full, build nice houses, and settle down,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Otherwise, after you have eaten and been satisfied, and have built beautiful houses and have lived in them,

Deuteronomy 8:12 Cross References

Proverbs 30:9

Lest I become satisfied and deny You, And say, “Who is יהוה?” And lest I be poor, and steal, And seize the Name of my Elohim.

Ecclesiastes 2:4

I made my works great, I built myself houses, I planted vineyards for myself.

Ezekiel 11:3

who are saying, ‘It is not near, let us build houses. This city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

Amos 5:11

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take grain taxes from him – you have built houses of hewn stone but you are not going to dwell in them, you have planted pleasant vineyards but not drink wine from them.

Haggai 1:4

“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your panelled houses, and this House be in ruins?”

Luke 17:28

And likewise, as it came to be in the days of Lot: They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building,”

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because you did not serve יהוה your Elohim with joy and gladness of heart for all the plenty,”

Deuteronomy 31:20

“And I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant.

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Yeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are covered with fat; So he forsook Eloah who made him, And scorned the Rock of his deliverance.

Deuteronomy 6:10

And it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Ya‛aqoḇ, to give you great and good cities which you did not build,”

Deuteronomy 8:13

and your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and your gold are increased, and all that you have is increased,