Deuteronomy 1:19-46 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Deuteronomy 1:19. great and terrible wilderness (Deuteronomy 8:15); i.e. the desert of et-Tih between the peninsula of Sinai and S. Palestine. as. commanded us: cf. Deuteronomy 1:7.

Deuteronomy 1:24. valley of Eshcol: Numbers 13:23 *.

Deuteronomy 1:28. sons of the Anakim: Heb. necked, i.e. long-necked people. The phrase means simply tall, giant-like folk. Anak is not a proper name (see Numbers 13:28).

Deuteronomy 1:32. Render, Yet in spite of this utterance (of mine), etc.

Deuteronomy 1:33. Exodus 13:21 * (J) and Exodus 40:34-38 * (P), cf. Numbers 9:15-22; Numbers 10:11 f., Numbers 14:14; Psalms 105:39 (see note in Cent.B).

Deuteronomy 1:35. of this evil generation: omit with LXX and Numbers 14:22 ff.; its omission is required by the sense and by Heb. grammar.

Deuteronomy 1:36. save Caleb: so D and J (Numbers 14:24); in P (Numbers 14:30) Joshua is added. the land: i.e. Hebron and neighbourhood (Numbers 13:22 ff. (JE), Joshua 14:12-14). the Lord (Yahweh): read, me (Heb. consonants identical).

Deuteronomy 1:37. According to D (see also Deuteronomy 3:26; Deuteronomy 4:21) Moses is prevented from entering Canaan on account of the people's disobedience at Kadesh in the second year of the Exodus, but according to P (Deuteronomy 32:50 f., Numbers 20:12; Numbers 27:13 f.) it is on account of his own presumption at the same spot thirty-seven years later when he struck the rock.

Deuteronomy 1:38. standeth before: the attitude of one who serves (see 1 Kings 10:8, cf. Exodus 33:11).

Deuteronomy 1:39. The verse should begin with, But your children; the foregoing words, absent from the LXX and superfluous for the sense, are taken from Numbers 14:31.

Deuteronomy 1:40. Red Sea: go LXX, Vulg.; Heb. Sea of Reeds; probably the Gulf of Akabah.

Deuteronomy 1:41-46. Numbers 14:39-45 (JE).

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Deuteronomy 1:19-46

19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.

20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.

21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.

22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:

27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouragedg our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath whollyh followed the LORD.

37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

38 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and wenti presumptuously up into the hill.

44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.