Deuteronomy 8:12

12 Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in,

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 After a meal, satisfied, bless God, your God, for the good land he has given you.

11 Make sure you don't forget God, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you today

12 Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in,

13 see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up -

14 make sure you don't become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God, the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery;