Deuteronomy 1:28

Deuteronomy 1:28

26 ^a“Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God;

27 and you ^acomplained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord ^bhates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

28 Where can we go up? Our brethren have¹ discouraged our hearts, saying, ^a“The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the ^bAnakim there.” ’

29 “Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, ^aor afraid of them.

30 ^aThe Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

31 and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a ^aman carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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the cities are great, and walled up to heaven—an Oriental metaphor, meaning very high. The Arab marauders roam about on horseback, and hence the walls of St. Catherine's monastery on Sinai are so lofty that travellers are drawn up by a pulley in a basket.

Anakims—(See on Numbers 13:33). The honest and uncompromising language of Moses, in reminding the Israelites of their perverse conduct and outrageous rebellion at the report of the treacherous and fainthearted scouts, affords a strong evidence of the truth of this history as well as of the divine authority of his mission. There was great reason for his dwelling on this dark passage in their history, as it was their unbelief that excluded them from the privilege of entering the promised land (Hebrews 3:19); and that unbelief was a marvellous exhibition of human perversity, considering the miracles which God had wrought in their favor, especially in the daily manifestations they had of His presence among them as their leader and protector.

Deuteronomy 1:22-33

ye came . . . and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land—The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the people through unbelief; but Moses, believing them sincere, gave his cordial assent to this measure, and God on being consulted permitted them to follow the suggestion (see on Numbers 13:1). The issue proved disastrous to them, only through their own sin and folly.

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