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 * (P), cf. Numbers 9:15; 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). 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. Numbers 14:39 (JE).