Deuteronomy 1
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These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

on this

Numbers 32:5,19,32 Why, said they, if we have found grace in your sight, let this land …

Numbers 34:15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance …

Numbers 35:14 You shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities …

Joshua 9:1,10 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, …

Joshua 22:4,7 And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he …

Red sea. or, Zuph. Or rather, Suph. This could not have been the {Red Sea}, not only because the word {yam}, `sea,' is not joined with it as usual, but because they were now east of Jordan, and farther from the Red Sea than ever. It seems to be the same which is called {Suphah} in

Numbers 21:14 Why it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in …

Paran Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Diaahab, seem to have been either {places} or {cities} not far from the plains of Moab; for it is evident that Paran and Hazeroth could not have been those near the Red sea, and not far from Horeb.

Deuteronomy 33:2 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; …

Genesis 21:21 And he dwelled in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him …

Numbers 10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness …

Numbers 12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the …

Numbers 13:3,26 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness …

1 Samuel 25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and …

Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His …

Hazeroth

Numbers 11:35 And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah to Hazeroth; and stayed …

Numbers 33:17,18 And they departed from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth…

(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
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.
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.
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

shall not

Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great …

Deuteronomy 16:19 You shall not wrest judgment; you shall not respect persons, neither …

Leviticus 19:15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect …

1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the …

2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which …

Proverbs 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect …

Luke 20:21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that you say and teach …

Acts 10:34,35 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that …

Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

Ephesians 6:9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: …

Colossians 3:25 But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has …

James 2:1,3,9 My brothers, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord …

1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …

respect persons [heb] acknowledge faces. That is, let not the bold, daring countenances of the rich or mightily induce you to give an unrighteous decision; and let not the abject look of the poor man induce you either to favour him in an unrighteous cause, or to give judgment against him at the demand of the oppressor.

ye shall hear

Exodus 23:3,6,7 Neither shall you countenance a poor man in his cause…

1 Samuel 12:3,4 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …

Job 22:6-9 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped …

Job 29:11-17 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, …

Job 31:13-16 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, …

Psalm 82:3,4 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy…

Proverbs 22:22,23 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted …

Jeremiah 5:28,29 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the …

Amos 5:11,12 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take …

Micah 2:1-3 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …

Micah 3:1-4 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of …

Micah 7:3,4 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, …

James 2:2-4,5 For if there come to your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly …

ye shall not

1 Kings 21:8-14 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal…

Job 31:34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify …

Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the …

Jeremiah 1:17 You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all …

Matthew 22:16 And they sent out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, …

Mark 12:14 And when they were come, they say to him, Master, we know that you …

1 Thessalonians 2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, …

the judgment

2 Chronicles 19:6 And said to the judges, Take heed what you do: for you judge not …

the cause

Deuteronomy 17:8-10 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood …

Exodus 18:18,22,26 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with …

And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
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.

We will send The people proposed this measure through unbelief; Moses, mistaking their motive, approved of it, and God, being justly displeased, permitted them to follow their own counsel, which proved injurious to them only through their sin and folly

Numbers 13:1-20 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…

And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

discouraged [heb] melted

Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall …

Exodus 15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling …

Joshua 2:9,11,24 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, …

Joshua 14:8 Nevertheless my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the …

Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

Ezekiel 21:7 And it shall be, when they say to you, Why sigh you? that you shall …

The people

Deuteronomy 9:1,2 Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to …

Numbers 13:28-33 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the …

walled That is, with very high walls, which could not be easily scaled. Harmer says, high walls are still to be seen in Arabia, and are deemed a sufficient defence against the Arabs, who scarcely ever attempt to plunder except on horseback. The monastery on Mount Sinai, and the convent of St. Anthony in Egypt, are surrounded with a very high wall, without gates; the persons and things being taken up and let down through an opening in the upper part, by means of a pulley and a basket. This kind of walling is a sufficient defence.

we have seen

Deuteronomy 9:2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom you know, …

Joshua 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of …

Joshua 15:14 And Caleb drove there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, …

Judges 1:10,20 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelled in Hebron: (now …

2 Samuel 21:16-22 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of …

Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

chased you When bees are provoked or disturbed, the whole swarm attack and pursue whatever annoys them, with great courage and fury, and sometimes are a formidable enemy. They were so troublesome in some districts of Crete, that, according to Pliny, the inhabitants were actually compelled to forsake their homes. AElian reports, that some places in Scythia were formerly inaccessible on account of the numerous swarms of bees with which they were infested. Mr. Park relates, that some of his associates imprudently attempted to rob a numerous hive which they found in their way. The exasperated little animals rushed out to defend their property, and attacked them with so much fury, that they quickly compelled the whole company of men, horses, and asses, to scamper off in all directions, The horses were never recovered, and a number of the asses were so severely stung, that they died the next day.

Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …

Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, …

Psalm 118:12 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire …

Isaiah 7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for …

unto Hormah

Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelled in …

Numbers 21:3 And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the …

And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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