Deuteronomy 12:20

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

¹⁹ and be careful not to neglect the Levite, as long as you live in your land. ²⁰ “When the Lord your God enlarges your territory as He has promised you, and you say, ‘I want to eat meat’ because you have a strong desire to eat meat, you may eat it whenever you want. ²¹ If the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, you may slaughter any of your herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

As He Promised

Jehovah

Deuteronomy 19:8

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—

Deuteronomy 11:24

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.

Genesis 28:14

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.

Exodus 34:24

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.

Genesis 15:18-21

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:

Genesis 31:30

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

Exodus 23:31

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.

Numbers 11:4

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

Numbers 11:20

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and cried to Him: ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Numbers 11:34

So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved the meat.

Deuteronomy 12:15

“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,

2 Samuel 13:39

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

2 Samuel 23:15

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

1 Chronicles 4:10

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.

Psalm 63:1

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.

Psalm 84:2

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

Psalm 107:9

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

Psalm 119:20

I am continually overcome
with longing for Your judgments.

Psalm 119:40

How I long for Your precepts!
Give me life through Your righteousness.

Psalm 119:174

I long for Your salvation, Lord,
and Your instruction is my delight.

2 Corinthians 9:14

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

Philippians 1:8

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

Philippians 2:26

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