Quotes About Desire

Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

But now our appetite is gone; there is nothing to see but this manna!”

Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ëGive us meat to eat!í

If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORDís people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

So they called that place Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.

Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

You shall not covet your neighborís wife. You shall not covet your neighborís house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.

if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.

So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”

But his father and mother replied, “Canít you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.

Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.

Because the LORD had closed Hannahís womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.

Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We must have a king over us.

Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”