Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
Proverbs 30:9Otherwise, 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.
Hosea 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
Treasury of Scripture
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelled therein;
Lest when
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 31:20
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
and hast built
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
Jeremiah 22:14,15
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion…
Ezekiel 11:3
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
