Deuteronomy 1:19-46

Deuteronomy 1:19 . great and terrible wilderness ( Deuteronomy 8:15); i.e. the desert of et-Tih between the peninsula of Sinai and S. Palestine.— as . . . commanded us: cf. Deuteronomy 1:7.

Deuteronomy 1:24 . valley of Eshcol: Numbers 13:23 *.

Deuteronomy 1:28 . sons of the Anakim: Heb. “ necked,” i.e. “ long-necked” people. The phrase means simply tall, giant-like folk. Anak is not a proper name (see Numbers 13:28).

Deuteronomy 1:32 . Render, “ Yet in spite of this utterance” (of mine), etc.

Deuteronomy 1:33 . Exodus 13:21 * (J) and Exodus 40:34-Zechariah : * (P), cf. Numbers 9:15-Song of Solomon :; Numbers 10:11 f., Numbers 14:14, Psalms 105:39 (see note in Cent.B).

Deuteronomy 1:35 . of this evil generation: omit with LXX and Numbers 14:22 ff.; its omission is required by the sense and by Heb. grammar.

Deuteronomy 1:36 . save Caleb: so D and J ( Numbers 14:24); in P ( Numbers 14:30) Joshua is added.— the land: i.e. Hebron and neighbourhood ( Numbers 13:22 ff. (JE), Joshua 14:12-2 Chronicles :).— the Lord (Yahweh): read, “ me” (Heb. consonants identical).

Deuteronomy 1:37 . According to D (see also Deuteronomy 3:26, Deuteronomy 4:21) Moses is prevented from entering Canaan on account of the people’ s disobedience at Kadesh in the second year of the Exodus, but according to P ( Deuteronomy 32:50 f., Numbers 20:12; Numbers 27:13 f.) it is on account of his own presumption at the same spot thirty-seven years later when he struck the rock.

Deuteronomy 1:38 . standeth before: the attitude of one who serves (see 1 Kings 10:8, cf. Exodus 33:11).

Deuteronomy 1:39 . The verse should begin with, “ But your children” ; the foregoing words, absent from the LXX and superfluous for the sense, are taken from Numbers 14:31.

Deuteronomy 1:40 . Red Sea: go LXX, Vulg.; Heb. “ Sea of Reeds” ; probably the Gulf of Akabah.

Deuteronomy 1:41-1 Corinthians : . Numbers 14:39-Romans : (JE).