Deuteronomy 12:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat flesh,’ because you crave flesh, you may eat as much flesh as you desire.

Cross References

Genesis 28:14

and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.

Genesis 31:30

And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?”

2 Samuel 13:39

And the spirit of the king longed to go forth to Absalom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead.

2 Samuel 23:15

And David said longingly, “O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!”

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that thou wouldst bless me and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from harm so that it might not hurt me!” And God granted what he asked.

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfies him who is thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

Psalm 119:174

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

Psalm 119:20

My soul is consumed with longing for thy ordinances at all times.

Psalm 119:40

Behold, I long for thy precepts; in thy righteousness give me life!

Psalm 63:1

O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is.

Psalm 84:2

My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Exodus 23:31

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

Exodus 34:24

For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire 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 becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come forth out of Egypt?” ’ ”

Numbers 11:34

Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.

Numbers 11:4

Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving; and the people of Israel also wept again, and said, “O that we had meat to eat!

2 Corinthians 9:14

while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

Deuteronomy 11:24

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your territory shall be from the wilderness and Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

Deuteronomy 12:15

“However, you may slaughter and eat flesh within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the hart.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place which the Lord your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your towns as much as you desire.

Deuteronomy 19:8

And if the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to 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 yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 2:26

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