Deuteronomy 1:7

_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

1-8 Moses spake to the people all the Lord had given him in commandment. Horeb was but eleven days distant from Kadesh-barnea. This was to remind them that their own bad conduct had occasioned their tedious wanderings; that they might the more readily understand the advantages of obedience. They must now go forward. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, he knows when they have been tried long enough. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course, he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement....

Verse Deuteronomy 1:7. _GO TO THE MOUNT OF THE AMORITES_] On the south of the land of Canaan, towards the Dead Sea. _LAND OF THE CANAANITES_] That is, Phoenicia, the country of Sidon, and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea from the country of the Philistines to Mount Libanus. The _Canaanites_ and _Phoenicians_ are often confounded. _THE RIVER EUPHRATES_] Thus Moses fixes the bounds of the land, to which on all quarters the territories of the Israelites might be extended, should the land of Canaan, properly so called, be found insufficient for them. Their SOUTH border might extend to the mount of the Amorites; their WEST to the borders of the Mediterranean Sea; their NORTH to Lebanon; and their EAST border to the river Euphrates: and to this extent Solomon reigned; see...

TO THE MOUNT OF THE AMORITES - i. e. to the mountain district occupied by the Amorites, reaching into the Negeb, and part of the territory assigned to the tribe of Judah....

TITLE AND INTRODUCTION Deuteronomy 1:1. EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 1:1 In these verses we have the inscription and general introduction to the book, announcing the contents of the book, the author of it, the parties whom he addressed, and the time and place of his addresses. DEUTERONOMY 1:1 THESE BE THE WORDS. Some would render here "Such are the words," and understand the expression as referring to the preceding books. But it seems more natural to refer it to what follows—to the addresses in this book. The pronoun these (אֵלֶּה) may be used with a prospective reference, as

TURN YOU AND TAKE YOUR JOURNEY,.... That is, remove from Horeb, where they were, and proceed on in their journey, in which they had been stopped almost a year: AND GO TO THE MOUNT OF THE AMORITES; where they and the Amalekites dwelt, in the south part of the land of Canaan, and which was the way the spies were sent, Numbers 13:17, AND UNTO ALL THE PLACES NIGH THEREUNTO; nigh to the mountain. The Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret them of Moab, Ammon, Gebal, or Mount Seir: "in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale"; such was the country near this mountain, consisting of champaign land, hills, and valleys: AND IN THE SOUTH; the southern border of the land of Canaan, as what follows describes the other borders of it: AND BY THE SEA SIDE: the Mediterranean sea, the western border of the land, which Jarchi ou

_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 1:6 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:40. Moses-' first discourse, based on JE in Ex. and Nu. though possessing peculiar features due to a Deuteronomic editor. Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29. Moses Reviews the Journey of the Israelites from Horeb. Deuteronomy 1:6. The words suggest that the Israelites would be able to take possession of the land immediately they entered it; _cf._ Joshua, which describes such an entrance into Canaan. The more historical view is that given by Judges....

TURN YOU. Face about. Note the Figure of speech _Polyonymia_ (App-6) in this verse. Hebrew. _panah,_ set one's face; start. VALE. Hebrew. _Shephelah =_ Philistia. SOUTH. Hebrew. _Negeb,_ the hill country south of Judea. See note on "South", Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:1. RIVER. Hebrew. _nahar,_. flood, not _nahal,_. wady. Compare Genesis 15:18. THE RIVER. Figure of speech _Anadiplosis._ App-6....

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;...