I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
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I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.
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And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
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And I said unto you: 'Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God giveth unto us.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 1:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 1:7-8 Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’ ”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain So that the fault was in themselves, that they…
So that the fault was in themselves, that they did not sooner possess the inheritance promised.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I said unto you, you are come unto…
And I said unto you, you are come unto the mountain of the Amorites,.... Which was inhabited by them, and was one of the seven nations the Israelites were to destroy, and possess their land, and which lay on the southern part of the land of Canaan:
which the Lord our God doth give unto us; not the mountain only, but the whole country of that people, and even all the land of Canaan.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. Ye are come unto the hill-country of the…
20. Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites] See on Deu_1:7. If Ḳadesh be ‘Ain Ḳudeis, the Negeb still lay between Israel and the Mt of the Amorite as J, Num_13:17 b, 22, correctly notices. The omission here is due to the summary character of the review, and has no bearing on the position of Ḳadesh.
giveth] Heb. giving with the force of is about to give: followed by ground or land, it forms a phrase peculiar to D. See on Deu_1:8.
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20–25. The Mission of the Spies
Arrived at the Mt of the Amorite, promised them by God, and exhorted to invade it (Deu_1:20 f.), the people proposed that spies be sent forward to explore (Deu_1:22). Moses consented and took twelve men (Deu_1:23), who visited the vale of ’Eshkôl and brought back of its fruit, saying the land was good (Deu_1:24 f.).—The parallel passage is Numbers 13, for the analysis of which into JE and P see Chapman, Introd. to the Pent. (86 ff.), in this series, and cp. Oxf. Hex. and G. B. Gray in the Int. Crit. Com. To JE are generally assigned Deu_1:17 bc – Deu_1:21 a, Deu_1:22-24, Deu_1:26-29 : the beginning of this account with the start of the spies from Ḳadesh is probably broken off; it is implied in Deu_1:26. As it stands all that JE tells us is that the spies started after Israel had reached the wilderness of Paran, Num_12:16, while Ḳadesh was in the wilderness of Sin to the N. of that of Paran. They were to go up by the Negeb, still intervening between them and the Mt of the Amorite, to see the land, its dwellers, their manner of life, and the fruits. Thus they came to Ḥebron where were sons of ‘Anaḳ and brought back from the vale of ’Eshḳol some fruit to Ḳadesh, reporting the land to be good, but the people strong and their cities fenced and great. It is clear that the deuteronomic review is a summary of this account. P’s narrative, Num_13:1-17 a, Num_13:21 b, Num_13:25-26 a differs from JE and D both in its language and in several details of facts for which see below. For full proof of the dependence of D on JE and D’s ignorance of P, see Chapman, I. P. 90–92, 94 f.
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Moses continues reminding the people of Israel what the previous generation of Israelites did.
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Look ... your God ... before you; go up, take possession ... your fathers ... to you; do not be afraid, neither be discouraged
Moses is speaking to the Israelites as if he were speaking to one man, so these forms should be singular, not plural. (See: Pronouns)
has set the land before you
"is now giving this land to you." See how this is translated in Deuteronomy 1:8.
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possess
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fear
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