Deuteronomy 8:12
10 When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
11 Be 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.
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
14 then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
- KJV
- Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
- WEB
- lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;
- ASV
- lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
- DARBY
- lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,
- BLB
- lest you eat and be satisfied and build and inhabit beautiful houses;
- ÅB
- og vokt deg at du ikke, når du spiser og blir mett og bygger gode hus og bor i dem,
- OTB
- ellers, når du spiser og er mett, og du bygger fine hus og bor i dem,
- B1930
- og vokt dig at du ikke, når du eter og blir mett og bygger gode hus og bor i dem,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 30:9
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.
Read in contextHosea 13:5–6
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:15
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.
Read in contextAmos 5:11
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.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:14–15
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.
Read in contextLuke 17:28
It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
Read in contextHaggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
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