DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON Deuteronomy 1:2 These verses emphasize that it was only an eleven days’ journey from Mount Sinai to the Promised Land, and yet it had taken the Israelites 40 years to get there (fortieth year). The long delay was God’s punishment for Israel’s initial failure to trust him to bring them into the land (Numbers 14:26). according to all that the LORD had given him. Deuteronomy 1:1 rarely distinguishes between God’s words and Moses’ words. defeated Sihon... and Og. See Numbers 21:21.

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