Deuteronomy 1:8

_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)....

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....

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

BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU,.... Described it to them, and set its bounds, as well as had given them a grant of it: GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND, WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO YOUR FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, TO GIVE UNTO THEM AND THEIR SEED AFTER THEM: and which being thus made sure unto them, they had nothing more to do than to go and take possession of it....

_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....

BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6). ABRAHAM. Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 26:3, &c. This promise mentioned twenty-seven times in Deut., but unintelligible without Genesis....

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;...

A. THE EVENTS FROM SINAI TO THE PRESENT (Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29) 1 COMMAND TO LEAVE HOREB FOR THE PROMISED LAND (Deuteronomy 1:6-8) Deuteronomy 1:6 Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain: 7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all _the places_ nigh there-unto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go

FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promised Land. Moses, feeling that his death is approaching, delivers his final charges to the people. In the first, he reviews briefly the history of Israel from Mt. Sinai to the Jordan, dwelling on the goodness of God, and making it the basis of an earnest appeal to the people to remember all that He has done for them, and to keep His commandments. INTRODUCTION. REVIEW OF THE JOURNEY FROM SINAI TO KADESH 1-5. Introduction....