Deuteronomy 12:20

Modern English Version

When the Lord your God shall enlarge your border as He has promised you, and you say, “I will eat meat,” because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.

Cross References

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like 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, and in you and in your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 31:30

Now you surely have gone away because you longed desperately after your father’s house, yet why have you stolen my gods?”

2 Samuel 13:39

Then King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was consoled over the death of Amnon.

2 Samuel 23:15

David said longingly, “O that someone would give me a drink of water from the well in Bethlehem by the gate!”

1 Chronicles 4:10

Then Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh, that You would indeed bless me and enlarge my territory, that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that it may not bring me hardship!” So God granted what he asked.

Psalm 107:9

For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.

Psalm 119:174

I long for Your salvation, O  Lord, and Your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:20

My soul is consumed with longing for Your decrees at all times.

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I long for Your precepts; revive me in Your righteousness.

Psalm 63:1

O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs and even yearns for the courtyards of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Exodus 23:31

I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Exodus 34:24

For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders. No man will covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.

Numbers 11:20

but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it will be nauseating to you because you rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, ‘Why did we come out of Egypt?’ ”

Numbers 11:34

And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah because there they buried the people who had the craving.

Numbers 11:4

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted, and the Israelites wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

2 Corinthians 9:14

And in their prayer for you, they long for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place where the soles of your feet tread will be yours. Your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, from the river, the Euphrates River, as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

Deuteronomy 12:15

Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and of the deer,

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place which the Lord your God has chosen to put His name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you must eat in your gates whatever your heart desires.

Deuteronomy 19:8

If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as He promised your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers,

Philippians 1:8

For God is my witness, how I long after you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:26

For he longed after you all and was filled with heaviness, because you heard that he was sick.