Deuteronomy 8:12

12 When you eat, get full, build nice houses, and settle down,

Deuteronomy 8:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 8:12

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full
Not only once and again, but continually, day after day, being indulged with great plenty:

and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein];
who for forty years had only dwelt in tents, moving from place to place in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 8:12 In-Context

10 You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless the LORD your God in the wonderful land that he's given you.

11 But watch yourself! Don't forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commands or his case laws or his regulations that I am commanding you right now.

12 When you eat, get full, build nice houses, and settle down,

13 and when your herds and your flocks are growing large, your silver and gold are multiplying, and everything you have is thriving,

14 don't become arrogant, forgetting the LORD your God: the one who rescued you from Egypt, from the house of slavery;