Deuteronomy 8:12 “Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses…”

Deuteronomy 8:12

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

World English Bible

lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

American Standard Version

lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Geneva Bible 1599

Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein,

Darby Translation

lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,

Young's Literal Translation

lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

Bible in Basic English

And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

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Cross references

“Lest when”

Proverbs 30:9 Deuteronomy 28:47 Deuteronomy 32:15 Deuteronomy 31:20 Hosea 13:5 Hosea 13:6

Proverbs 30:9 · BSB

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

Deuteronomy 28:47 · BSB

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

Deuteronomy 32:15 · BSB

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 31:20 · BSB

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will rejec…

Hosea 13:5 · BSB

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

Hosea 13:6 · BSB

When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

“and hast built”

Ecclesiastes 2:4 Amos 5:11 Haggai 1:4 Luke 17:28 Ezekiel 11:3 Jeremiah 22:14

Ecclesiastes 2:4 · BSB

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

Amos 5:11 · BSB

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Haggai 1:4 · BSB

“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

Luke 17:28 · BSB

It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

Ezekiel 11:3 · BSB

They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

Jeremiah 22:14 · BSB

who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

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