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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:2

"It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.""Days' journey ..." Distances were counted by the time required to travel. "A day's journey was about twenty miles if one traveled on foot, or thirty miles (at three miles and hour) by camel, and twenty-five miles by caravan."[6] It appears very likely, however, that a great company like Israel would not have been able to move as rapidly as a smaller company might have traveled. The actual distance indicated... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:3

"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 to all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them; after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei. Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 1:2

Ver. 2. Eleven days journey from Horeb— This verse seems to have been thrown in to shew, that though the direct way from mount Horeb to the plains of Moab is but a few days' journey, even to those who make a circuit about by Kadesh-barnea, yet it was so ordered by the Divine Providence, that the Israelites should not accomplish this same short space of way in less than thirty-eight years, as a punishment for their iniquities. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 1:2

2. There are eleven days' journey from Horeb—Distances are computed in the East still by the hours or days occupiesd by the journey. A day's journey on foot is about twenty miles—on camels, at the rate of three miles an hour, thirty miles—and by caravans, about twenty-five miles. But the Israelites, with children and flocks, would move at a slow rate. The length of the Ghor from Ezion-geber to Kadesh is a hundred miles. The days here mentioned were not necessarily successive days [ROBINSON],... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 1:3

3-8. in the fortieth year . . . Moses spake unto the children of Israel, &c.—This impressive discourse, in which Moses reviewed all that God had done for His people, was delivered about a month before his death, and after peace and tranquillity had been restored by the complete conquest of Sihon and Og. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 1:1-5

I. INTRODUCTION: THE COVENANT SETTING 1:1-5This brief section places the events that follow in their geographical and chronological setting. It introduces the occasion for the covenant, the parties involved, and other information necessary to identify the document and the peculiarities of its composition."The time was the last month of the fortieth year after the Exodus (Deuteronomy 1:3 a), when the men of war of that generation had all perished (Deuteronomy 2:16), the conquest of Trans-Jordan... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:1-43

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... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:1-46

Introduction. Review of the Journey from Sinai to Kadesh1-5. Introduction.1. On this side Jordan] RV ’beyond Jordan,’ i.e. on the E. side. The writer speaks from the standpoint of Canaan, as also in Deuteronomy 1:5, Deuteronomy 3:8; Deuteronomy 4:41, Deuteronomy 4:46, Deuteronomy 4:49. see Intro. to Numbers.2. The plain is the Arabah, the valley running N. and S. of the Dead Sea. The Red sea] Heb. Suph, the name of some place on the Gulf of Akaba.6-46. Review of the journey from Sinai to Kadesh... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 1:2

(2) Eleven days’ journey from Horeb . . .—In our English Version this verse forms a separate sentence; but there seems nothing to prevent our taking it as completing the first verse. The route between Paran on the one side and the line from Tophel to Hazeroth on the other is still further defined as “a distance of eleven days’ journey from Horeb in the direction of Mount Seir, reaching to Kadesh-barnea.” The position of this last place is not yet determined with certainty. But the requirements... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 1:3

(3) And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month.—The “and” is the real beginning of Deuteronomy, and connects it with the previous books. The moral of these words has been well pointed out by Jewish writers. It was but eleven days’ journey from Sinai to Kadesh-barnea—the place from whence Israel should have begun the conquest of the promised land; but not only eleven days of the second year of the exodus, but eleven months of the fortieth year found them still in the... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 1:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 1:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Deuteronomy 1:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Deuteronomy 1:1-5

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:1-43

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 1:1-46

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 1:2

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Deuteronomy 1:3

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