Deuteronomy 31:20

Modern English Version

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten, and filled themselves, and become fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke Me, and break My covenant.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:35

For whether in their kingdom or in Your abundant goodness that You gave them, or in the spacious and fertile land that You set before them, they have neither served You nor turned away from their wicked deeds.

Psalm 119:70

Their heart is insensitive, like fat, but I delight in Your law.

Psalm 17:10

They close their hard hearts; with their mouths they speak proudly.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes bulge with fatness; they have more than a heart could wish.

Exodus 3:17

Therefore, I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

Exodus 3:8

Therefore, I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Proverbs 30:9

lest I be full and deny You, and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.

Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn and be healed.”

Jeremiah 31:32

It will not be according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they broke My covenant, although I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are fat, they are sleek. Indeed, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not judge the cause of the fatherless, so that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they do not defend.

Jeremiah 50:11

Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of My inheritance, because you have grown fat as the heifer at the grass, and bellow as bulls,

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which was driven away and bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them with judgment.

Ezekiel 34:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and between the lean sheep.

Hosea 13:6

When they had pasture, they were satisfied. They were satisfied, and their heart was exalted; therefore they forgot Me.

Hosea 6:7

But like men they have transgressed the covenant. There they dealt faithlessly with Me.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Take heed to yourselves that your heart be not deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

Deuteronomy 11:17

Then the Lord’s wrath will be inflamed against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the land will not yield its fruit, and you will quickly perish from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do it, so that it may be well with you and so that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord the God of your fathers has promised you in the land that flows with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you are entering to possess and has driven out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

Deuteronomy 8:19

If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, then I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

Deuteronomy 8:7

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills,