Verse 47

Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly in the time of abundance.

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  • Deut 12:7-9 : 7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all the good things the Lord your God has blessed you with. 8 You must not act as we are doing here today, where everyone does whatever seems right in their own eyes. 9 For you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you. 10 But when you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in safety, 11 Then to the place the Lord your God chooses for His name to dwell, you shall bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes, your special gifts, and all the choice offerings you have vowed to the Lord. 12 You shall rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow living among you, in the place the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
  • Deut 32:13-15 : 13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the produce of the fields. He gave him honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag. 14 Curds from cattle and milk from the flock, with fat from lambs, rams of Bashan breed, and goats, with the finest wheat, and you drank the blood of the grape as wine. 15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, thick, and bloated. Then he forsook the God who made him and treated with contempt the Rock of his salvation.
  • Neh 9:35-37 : 35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying Your abundant goodness and the spacious, fertile land You gave them, they did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds. 36 Here we are today, slaves in the land You gave to our ancestors so they could enjoy its fruit and its goodness—here we are, slaves in it! 37 Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.
  • 1 Tim 6:17-19 : 17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be arrogant or to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy. 18 Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share. 19 Storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of what is truly life.