Deuteronomy 12:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

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  • Deut 25:19 : 19 So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.
  • 1 Kgs 8:56 : 56 Praise be to the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, as he gave them his word to do; every word of all his oath, which he gave by the hand of Moses his servant, has come true.
  • 1 Chr 23:25 : 25 For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever;
  • Ps 95:11 : 11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
  • Mic 2:10 : 10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.
  • Heb 4:8-9 : 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day. 9 So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:3-4 : 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 10 But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;

  • Josh 1:13-15
    3 verses
    79%

    13 Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said to you, The Lord your God is sending you rest and will give you this land.

    14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be kept here in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but you, the fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers, armed, to give them help;

    15 Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.

  • Josh 22:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.

    4 And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.

  • 20 Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.

  • 31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

  • Deut 12:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

    8 You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

  • Num 32:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

    19 For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

  • 1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

  • 13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

  • 9 So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

  • Deut 11:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 1:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.

    21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.

  • 29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • 1 These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.

  • 6 Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.

  • Deut 9:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

    5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

  • 20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

  • 32 But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,

  • 8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • 38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • 9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

  • 18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • 11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • 9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

  • 47 And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • 14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Josh 18:2-3
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    73%

    2 But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.

    3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

  • 4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • 23 And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.

  • 52 So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.

  • 9 For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.

  • 25 And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

  • 12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • 20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • 22 And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

  • 2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)

  • 27 And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • 1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

  • 19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

  • 53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.