Deuteronomy 12:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

Shall

1 Chronicles 4:10

As he hath

I will

General references

Deuteronomy 19:8

Bible References

Shall

Jabez called out to the God of Israel: “If only You would bless me, extend my border, let Your hand be with me, and keep me from harm, so that I will not cause any pain.”

And God granted his request.

As he hath

Every place the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon and from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea.

If the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised to give them—

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River:

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

I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

For I will drive out 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.

I will

“But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the Lord your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer,

Now you have gone off because you long for your father—but why have you stolen my gods?”

Contemptible people among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites cried again and said, “Who will feed us meat?

Then King David longed to go to Absalom, for David had finished grieving over Amnon’s death.

David was extremely thirsty and said, “If only someone would bring me water to drink from the well at the city gate of Bethlehem!”

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

I long and yearn
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

For He has satisfied the thirsty
and filled the hungry with good things.

I am continually overcome
with longing for Your judgments.

And they will have deep affection for you in their prayers on your behalf because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

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

since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick.

General references

If the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised to give them—