Deuteronomy 1:7-8 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 1:7

Go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all that dwell thereon ; literally, its dwellers or inhabitants ( שְׁכֵנָיו ). The mountain range of the Amorites, afterwards called the hill country of Judah and Ephraim, was the object which would first strike the view of one advancing from the south; and so, it stands here for the whole land of Canaan, with which it is in this context identified. Those "that dwell thereon" are the inhabitants of the whole of Canaan. The Amorites (Hebrew ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 1:8

Behold, I have set the land before you : literally, have given the land before you , i . e . have made it over to you, that you may go and take possession of it. The Lord had placed this land in the power of the Israelites, had given it up to them to possess and use it, according as he had sworn to their fathers, the patriarchs, to give it to them and their seed (comp. Genesis 12:7 ; Genesis 13:15 ; Genesis 15:18 , etc.; Genesis 22:16 ). At Horeb, therefore, they received the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 1:7

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. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 1:7-8

Deuteronomy 1:7-8. To the mount of the Amorites That is, to the mountainous country on the south part of Canaan, inhabited chiefly by the Amorites, Deuteronomy 1:19-20; Deuteronomy 1:44. The country to which Moses directed the spies to go up, Numbers 13:17. This order is not mentioned in the book of Numbers, nor a great many other things, for a knowledge of which we are indebted to this supplemental book of Deuteronomy. Behold, I have set the land before you Hebrew, before your faces; ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 1:1-46

1:1-4:43 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTIONIn style similar to that of ancient treaty documents, Deuteronomy opens by recounting all that Yahweh, Israel’s covenant God, has done for his people. It reminds them of his gracious acts on their behalf and calls from them a fitting response of covenant loyalty. The section summarizes events recorded in greater detail in Numbers 10:11-32:42.From Sinai to Kadesh (1:1-46)It was only eleven days’ journey from Mount Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, and about the same from... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 1:7

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, a flood, not nahal, a wady. Compare Genesis 15:18 . the river. Figure of speech Anadiplosis. App-6 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Deuteronomy 1:8

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. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 1:7

Ver. 7. Go to the mount of the Amorites— This mountain, situated on the south of Canaan, was inhabited by the Canaanites and Amalekites, but principally by the Amorites, (see the 19th, 20th, and 44th verses following;) and it was to this mountain that Moses sent the spies, Numbers 13:17. We have no account of this order in the book of Numbers, any more than of a great many other things, which we should have been ignorant of, but for this supplemental book of Deuteronomy. Moses, in the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 1:7

7. the mount of the Amorites—the hilly tract lying next to Kadesh-barnea in the south of Canaan. to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon—that is, Phoelignicia, the country of Sidon, and the coast of the Mediterranean—from the Philistines to Lebanon. The name "Canaanite" is often used synonymously with that of "Phoelignician." read more