Deuteronomy 12:20

New International Version

When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want.

Cross References

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Genesis 31:30

Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?”

2 Samuel 13:39

And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he was consoled concerning Amnon’s death.

2 Samuel 23:15

David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.

Psalm 107:9

for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your salvation, Lord, and your law gives me delight.

Psalm 119:20

My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.

Psalm 119:40

How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.

Psalm 63:1

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Psalm 84:2

My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Exodus 23:31

“I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you.

Exodus 34:24

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

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?” ’ ”

Numbers 11:34

Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

Numbers 11:4

The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!

2 Corinthians 9:14

And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Deuteronomy 12:15

Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want.

Deuteronomy 19:8

If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your ancestors, and gives you the whole land he promised them,

Philippians 1:8

God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:26

For he longs for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.