Deuteronomy 1:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

The mount of the Amorites - the hilly tract in the south of Canaan (cf. Numbers 13:29; Numbers 14:2), called afterward the mountains of Judah and Israel (Joshua 11:16; Joshua 11:21).

In the plain, х baa-`Araabaah (H6160)] - in the valley of the Jordan.

In the hills - i:e., the central mountain ridge.

In the vale, х uwbashªpeelaah (H8219)] - the Philistine champaign country.

The south, х uwba-Negeb (H5045)] - the debateable land stretching out into the wilderness by the seaside-the Mediterranean.

To the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon - i:e., Phoenicia, the country of Sidon; and the coast of the Mediterranean, from the Philistines to Lebanon. The name Canaanite is often used synonymously with that of Phoenician.

Deuteronomy 1:7

7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nighb thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.