Deuteronomy 12:20

God's Word

The Lord your God will expand your ⌞country’s⌟ borders as he promised. You will say, “I’m hungry for meat.” Then eat as much meat as you want.

Cross References

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust on the earth. You will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. Through you and through your descendant every family on earth will be blessed.

Genesis 31:30

Now you have left for your father’s home because you were so homesick. But why did you steal my gods?”

2 Samuel 13:39

King David began to long for Absalom once people had consoled him over Amnon’s death.

2 Samuel 23:15

When David became thirsty, he said, “I wish I could have a drink of water from the well at the city gate of Bethlehem.”

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez prayed to the God of Israel, “Please bless me and give me more territory. May your power be with me and free me from evil so that I will not be in pain.” God gave him what he prayed for.

Psalm 107:9

He gave plenty to drink to those who were thirsty. He filled those who were hungry with good food.

Psalm 119:174

I have longed for you to save me, O Lord, and your teachings make me happy.

Psalm 119:20

My soul is overwhelmed with endless longing for your regulations.

Psalm 119:40

I long for your guiding principles. Give me a new life in your righteousness.

Psalm 63:1

O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. My soul thirsts for you. My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs and yearns for the Lord’s courtyards. My whole body shouts for joy to the living God.

Exodus 23:31

“I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Sinai Desert to the Euphrates River. I will put the people living in the land under your control, and you will force them out of your way.

Exodus 34:24

I will force nations out of your way and will expand ⌞your country’s⌟ borders. No one will want to take away your land while you’re gone three times a year to the Lord’s festivals.

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month, until it comes out of their ears and they’re sick of it. This is because they rejected the Lord who is here among them and cried in front of him, asking, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’ ”

Numbers 11:34

That place was called Kibroth Hattaavah [Graves of Those Who Craved ⌞Meat⌟] because there they buried the people who had a strong craving ⌞for meat⌟.

Numbers 11:4

Some foreigners among the Israelites had a strong craving for ⌞other kinds of⌟ food. Even the Israelites started crying again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

2 Corinthians 9:14

With deep affection they will pray for you because of the extreme kindness that God has shown you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

I will give you every place on which you set foot. Your borders will be from the desert to Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Deuteronomy 12:15

In whatever city you live, you may slaughter and eat as much meat as you want from what the Lord your God has blessed you with. Clean and unclean  people may eat it as if they were eating a gazelle or a deer.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place the Lord your God chooses to put his name is too far away from you, you may slaughter an animal from the herds or flocks that the Lord has given you. Eat as much as you want in your city. I have commanded you to do this.

Deuteronomy 19:8

The Lord your God may expand your country’s borders as he promised your ancestors with an oath. He may give you the whole land he promised to give them.

Philippians 1:8

God is my witness that, with all the compassion of Christ Jesus, I long ⌞to see⌟ every one of you.

Philippians 2:26

He has been longing to see all of you and is troubled because you heard that he was sick.