Deuteronomy 1:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes. This statement seems to indicate that it was on this occasion Moses was condemned to share the fate of the people. But we know that it was several years afterward that Moses betrayed an unhappy spirit of distrust at the waters of strife (Psalms 106:32-33). This verse must be considered, therefore, as a parenthesis.

Deuteronomy 1:37

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