Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
The land before you - literally, before your faces; it is accessible; there is no impediment to your occupation. The order of the journey, as indicated by the places mentioned, would have led to a course of invasion; the opposite of what was eventually followed-namely, from the seacoast eastward, instead of from the Jordan westward (see the note at Numbers 20:1).