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Deuteronomy 8:12
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Deuteronomy 8:12
12Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
12Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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Deuteronomy 8:12
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Chewed and swallowed; also consumed or corroded.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Constructed, formed, established, or strengthened.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Fair, handsome, valuable.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Buildings or dwellings; also households, families, dynasties, or divisions descended from a common head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study9Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
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Open the full verse study47Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
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Open the full verse study15¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study5¶ I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
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Open the full verse study11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
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Open the full verse study20For 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.
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Open the full verse study4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
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Open the full verse study4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
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Open the full verse study14That 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.
15Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
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Open the full verse study28Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
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Open the full verse study3Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
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