Deuteronomy 1:32

_AND YE CAME NEAR UNTO ME EVERY ONE OF YOU, AND SAID, WE WILL SEND MEN BEFORE US, AND THEY SHALL SEARCH US OUT THE LAND, AND BRING US WORD AGAIN BY WHAT WAY WE MUST GO UP, AND INTO WHAT CITIES WE SHALL COME._ Ye came ... and said, We will send men. The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the people through unbelief; but Moses, believing them sincere, gave his cordial assent to this measure, and God, on being consulted, permitted them to follow the suggestion (see the notes at Numbers 13:1). The issue proved disastrous to them, only through their own sin and folly. Verse 28. CITIES ARE GREAT AND WALLED UP TO HEAVEN - an Oriental metaphor, meaning very high. The Arab marauders roam about on horseback; and hence, the walls of Catherine's monastery on Sinai are so lofty that travelers are drawn up by a pulley in a basket. ANAKIMS (see the note at...

32._Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord. He _signifies that they had been most prejudiced observers of the works of God, since His power, so often experienced and. so thoroughly understood, had not aroused them to confidence in Him. For in the word דבר, _dabar, _which we have translated _thing, _he embraces all the proofs whereby God had testified, that in Him alone there was all that was necessary to insure their complete salvation. And this was, so to speak, real or practical doctrine, when God called upon them to trust Him by stretching forth His hand. Still, He accuses them of unbelief with reference to the promise; for, whilst faith is not only prompt and ready in obedience, but invigorates and quickens the whole mall, so the cause of their inertness was that they gave no heed to God who had promised to bestow upon them the land of Canaan, and did not rest upon His covenan...

19-46 Moses reminds the Israelites of their march from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, through that great and terrible wilderness. He shows how near they were to a happy settlement in Canaan. It will aggravate the eternal ruin of hypocrites, that they were not far from the kingdom of God. As if it were not enough that they were sure of their God before them, they would send men before them. Never any looked into the Holy Land, but they must own it to be a good land. And was there any cause to distrust this God? An unbelieving heart was at the bottom of all this. All disobedience to God's laws, and distrust of his power and goodness, flow from disbelief of his word, as all true obedience springs from faith. It is profitable for us to divide our past lives into distinct periods; to give thanks to God for the mercies we have received in each, to confess and seek the forgiveness of all the sins we...

EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 1:19-5 Here Moses passes from the judges to the people at large; from charging officials to judge righteously, to reminding the people that they also had received from him commandments which they had to obey. The "things" referred to are either the injunctions specified in Exodus 21:1; etc; or simply the instructions mentioned in the preceding verses. God had called the Israelites out of Egypt that they should go up at once to Canaan, and he had by Moses done all that was needed for this. But they had been rebellious, and had opposed God's commands, the consequence of which was that they had been made to experience various trials, especially to wander nearly forty years in the wilderness, so that of those who came out of Egypt only two we

YET IN THIS THING YE DID NOT BELIEVE THE LORD YOUR GOD. That they might go up and possess the land at once, and that he would fight for them, and subdue their enemies under them; or notwithstanding the favours bestowed upon them, and because of them, they did not believe in the Lord their God, and which was a great aggravation of their unbelief, and was the cause of their not entering into the good land, Hebrews 3:19....

_2. FROM HOREB TO KADESH_ _ 1. The command to go in and to possess the land (Deuteronomy 1:6)_ 2. The appointment of judges reviewed (Deuteronomy 1:9) 3. The failure to possess the land (Deuteronomy 1:19) 4. The judgment of God (Deuteronomy 1:34) In the beginning of our annotations we must guard once more against the misleading conception, that the book of Deuteronomy is nothing but a rehearsal of previous history. On account of this wrong estimate, the book has not received the close study it deserves and God's people have missed the blessing, which results from such

DEUTERONOMY 1:19. GREAT AND TERRIBLE WILDERNESS (Deuteronomy 8:15); _i.e._ the desert of et-Tih between the peninsula of Sinai and S. Palestine. AS. COMMANDED US: _cf._ Deuteronomy 1:7. Deuteronomy 1:24. valley of Eshcol: Numbers 13:23 *. Deuteronomy 1:28. sons of the Anakim: Heb. necked, _i.e._ long-necked people. The phrase means simply tall, giant-like folk. Anak is not a proper name (see...

THE LORD. Hebrew "in the LORD"(= Jehovah)....

Duet Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29. Historical Part of the First Introductory Discourse Spoken in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 1:5) in _the gai_or _glen, over against Beth Pe-or_(Deuteronomy 3:29), a review of Israel's experiences since they left Ḥoreb. In the Plur. form of address except for the following fragments Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:21;...

3. Two FAILURES AT KADESH-BARNEA (Deuteronomy 1:19-46) a. BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF (Deuteronomy 1:19-40) Deuteronomy 1:19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea, 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth unto us. 21 Behold Jehovah thy God hath set the land before thee: go up, take possession, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed. 22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us