Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

General references

Bible References

Lest when

Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 31:20
For when I bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and are satisfied and become prosperous, then they will turn to other gods and serve them, and spurn Me and break My covenant.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
Then he forsook God who made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Proverbs 30:9
That I not be full and deny You and say, “Who is the Lord?”
Or that I not be in want and steal,
And profane the name of my God.
Hosea 13:5
I cared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.

And hast built

Ecclesiastes 2:4
I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself;
Jeremiah 22:14
Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house
With spacious upper rooms,
And cut out its windows,
Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’
Ezekiel 11:3
who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.’
Amos 5:11
Therefore because you impose heavy rent on the poor
And exact a tribute of grain from them,
Though you have built houses of well-hewn stone,
Yet you will not live in them;
You have planted pleasant vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.
Haggai 1:4
“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?”
Luke 17:28
It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

General references

Job 31:24
“If I have put my confidence in gold,
And called fine gold my trust,
Luke 17:27
they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.