Deuteronomy 8:12

12 ¹lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,

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 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

11 "Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,

12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,

13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,

14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 6:11, 12; Deuteronomy 28:47; Deuteronomy 32:15; Proverbs 30:9; Hosea 13:6