Deuteronomy 12:20

New American Bible - revised edition

After the Lord, your God, has enlarged your territory, as he promised you, and you think, “I will eat meat,” as it is your desire to eat meat, you may eat it freely;

Cross References

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and through them you will spread to the west and the east, to the north and the south. In you and your descendants all the families of the earth will find blessing.

Genesis 31:30

Granted that you had to leave because you were longing for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

2 Samuel 13:39

All that time the king continued to mourn his son; but his intention of going out against Absalom abated as he was consoled over the death of Amnon.

2 Samuel 23:15

Now David had a craving and said, “If only someone would give me a drink of water from the cistern by the gate of Bethlehem!”

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez prayed to the God of Israel: “Oh, that you may truly bless me and extend my boundaries! May your hand be with me and make me free of misfortune, without pain!” And God granted his prayer.

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfied the thirsty, filled the hungry with good things.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your salvation, Lord; your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:20

At all times my soul is stirred with longing for your judgments.

Psalm 119:40

See how I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life.

Psalm 63:1

A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

Psalm 84:2

How lovely your dwelling, O Lord of hosts!

Exodus 23:31

I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; all who dwell in this land I will hand over to you and you shall drive them out before you.

Exodus 34:24

Since I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your territory, no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord, your God.

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your very nostrils and becomes loathsome to you. For you have rejected the Lord who is in your midst, and in his presence you have cried, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Numbers 11:34

So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because it was there that the greedy people were buried.

Numbers 11:4

The riffraff among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, “If only we had meat for food!

2 Corinthians 9:14

while in prayer on your behalf they long for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place where you set foot shall be yours: from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea, shall be your territory.

Deuteronomy 12:15

However, in any of your communities you may slaughter and eat meat freely, according to the blessing that the Lord, your God, has given you; the unclean as well as the clean may eat it, as they do the gazelle or the deer.

Deuteronomy 12:21

and if the place where the Lord, your God, chooses to put his name is too far, you may slaughter in the manner I have commanded you any of your herd or flock that the Lord has given you, and eat it freely in your own community.

Deuteronomy 19:8

But if the Lord, your God, enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors, and gives you all the land he promised your ancestors he would give,

Philippians 1:8

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

Philippians 2:26

For he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was ill.