Deuteronomio 1:41-46

b. POR LA PRESUNCIÓN ( Deuteronomio 1:41-46 )

Deuteronomio 1:41 Entonces respondisteis y me dijisteis: Hemos pecado contra Jehova, subiremos y pelearemos, conforme a todo lo que Jehova nuestro Dios nos ha mandado. Y cuando os hubisteis ceñido cada uno con sus armas de guerra, e ibais adelante para subir al monte. 42 y me dijo Jehová: Diles: No subáis, ni peleéis; porque yo no estoy entre vosotros; para que no seáis heridos delante de vuestros enemigos, 43 Así os hablé, y no me escuchasteis; mas vosotros os rebelasteis contra el mandamiento de Jehová, y fuisteis arrogantes, y subisteis al monte.

44 Y salió contra vosotros el amorreo que habitaba en aquel monte, y os persiguieron como hacen las abejas, y os derribaron en Seir, hasta Horma. 45 Y volvisteis y llorasteis delante de Jehová; mas Jehová no escuchó vuestra voz, ni os prestó oído. 46 Y permanecisteis en Cades muchos días, conforme a los días que permanecisteis allí.

PREGUNTAS PARA REFLEXIONAR 1:41-46

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Hay una gran diferencia entre el remordimiento y el arrepentimiento; discuta esa diferencia como se indica en estos versículos.

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¿Qué implica el pecado de presunción?

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¿Por qué el Señor no se compadeció de estas personas y las perdonó?

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¿Cómo pudieron permanecer en Cades y, sin embargo, vagar durante treinta y ocho años en el desierto?

TRADUCCIÓN AMPLIFICADA 1:41-46

41 Entonces me dijisteis: Hemos pecado contra el Señor; subiremos y pelearemos, como el Señor nuestro Dios nos ha mandado. Y os ceñisteis cada uno sus armas de guerra, y creísteis fácil subir a la región montañosa.
42 Y el Señor me dijo: Diles: No subáis ni peleéis, porque yo no estoy entre vosotros; no sea que seas peligrosamente herido por tus enemigos.
43 Así os hablé; y no quisiste oír, sino que te rebelaste contra el mandamiento del Señor, y fuiste presuntuoso y subiste a la región montañosa.

44 Entonces salieron contra vosotros los amorreos que habitaban en aquella región montañosa, y os persiguieron como hacen las abejas, y os derribaron en Seir hasta Horma.
45 Y volvisteis y llorasteis delante del Señor; pero el Señor no escuchó tu voz ni te escuchó.
46 Así que permanecisteis en Cades; muchos días estuviste allí.

COMENTARIO 1:41-46

Aquí tenemos el segundo fracaso de Israel en Kadeshand que, en cierto modo, es más lamentable que el primero. Atrapados ahora por la maldición del Señor, que antes había prometido luchar por ellos y con ellos en todas sus batallas, ¡de repente decidieron hacer una demostración de arrepentimiento y coraje!

THEN YE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO ME, WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST JEHOVAH, WE WILL GO UP AND FIGHT, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT JEHOVAH OUR GOD COMMANDED US (Deuteronomio 1:41)How useless! God was not with them. Except Jehovah build the house, They labor in vain that build it: Except Jehovah keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain (Salmo 127:1).

¿Cómo podemos esperar cumplir la voluntad y el propósito del Señor en la vida sin la bendición del Señor? Todo lo puedo en aquel que me fortaleció ( Filipenses 4:13 ). ¡Y nos resultará difícil, como a Saúl, dar coces contra los aguijones, especialmente los aguijones de Dios! No, Israel no podría luchar contra los mismos enemigos de Dios sin su bendición y supervisión , ¡ni nosotros podemos! Era completamente imposible que Jehová los acompañara por el camino de la voluntad propia y la rebelión; y, con toda seguridad, Israel, sin la presencia divina, no podría ser rival para los amorreos.

If God be for us and with us, all must be victory; but we cannot count on God if we are not treading the path of obedience. It is simply the height of folly to imagine that we have God with us if our ways are not right. -The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous runneth into it and is safe.-' But if we are not walking in practical righteousness, it is wicked presumption to talk of having the Lord as our strong tower.Mackintosh

SAY UNTO THEM, GO NOT UP, NEITHER FIGHT: FOR I AM NOT AMONG YOU; LEST YE BE SMITTEN BEFORE YOUR ENEMIES (Deuteronomio 1:42)Now proud, haughty, and rebellious, the advice was summarily rejected, and matters were taken into their own hands. This always means disasterit cannot be otherwise, in that age or this! To go contrary to the Lord's appointed purpose is, in essence, to be found fighting against God (Hechos 5:39). No one fights against our Maker and wins!

YE HEARKENED NOT: BUT YE REBELLED AGAINST THE COMMANDMENT OF JEHOVAH, AND WERE PRESUMPTUOUS, AND WENT UP INTO THE HILL COUNTRY (Deuteronomio 1:43)The Hebrew word for presumptuous (Zud or Zid) is from a root meaning to boil, to boil over (speaking of water). It is onomatopetic, as the English to seethe, the Greek Zeo, the German sieden.

Gesenius states, Like the Gr. Zeo and Lat. ferveo, it is transferred to the violence or fierceness of a passionate mind. and thus to insolence and wickedness, giving the meaning here as to act insolently, fiercely, wickedly, especially in speaking of those who sin knowingly and purposely against the precepts of God.

Acting upon such a rebellious impulse, the will of God was cast aside: the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God (Santiago 1:20).

AND THE AMORITES, THAT DWELT IN THE HILL-COUNTRY, CAME OUT AGAINST YOU, AS BEES DO, AND BEAT YOU DOWN IN SEIR, EVEN UNTO HORMAH (Deuteronomio 1:44)the inevitable result of their rebellion and presumption, See Números 14:40-45, The Ark of God, the symbol of his presence, did not leave the camp.

These men were strictly on their ownwithout the endorsement, encouragement, or blessing of God, All such enterprises must fail! Israel was God's chosen nation and his beloved people, but they could not accomplish his grand purpose for them without resting their all upon his divine authority. And though they confessed their guilt in their first rebellion (we have sinned, Deuteronomio 1:41, cf.

Números 14:40 ), sólo volvieron a pecar al suponer que podían asaltar a los amorreos sin dirección divina. ¡La mera confesión de culpa no releva a uno de sus responsabilidades hacia Dios! Incluso cuando lloraron delante de Jehová ( Deuteronomio 1:45 ), su maldición no se retractó.

Again and again God had endured their murmurings and rebellion. But though he was longsuffering, Israel continued to disobey, ... all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice (Números 14:22), Besides, their confession and weeping seems to be much more of an emotional outburst from those who were totally unqualified to carry out God's purposes, than true repentance. Such people are rejected not because God is unmoved by pity but because they can never successfully fight his battles.Francisco

SO YE ABODE IN KADESH MANY DAYS (Deuteronomio 1:46)See also our comments under Deuteronomio 1:19. If we understand and we came to Kadesh-barnea (Deuteronomio 1:19) to refer to Israel's first arrival at that place, and the present statement to be a general one (including the many days spent there after the return from the approximate thirty-eight years in the wilderness, we have no trouble taking up in chapter two in the fortieth year after Israel's exodus from Egypt, (Note carefully our comments and the quote from McGarvey under Deuteronomio 2:1 of the next lesson, where the problem of harmonizing the chronology of Numbers and Deuteronomy is more fully discussed).

From Números 20:1 we learn that Israel did not begin its circuit of Mt. Seir until after their second visit to that place. They came into the wildernes of Zin in the first month: [of the fortieth year, as the consequent context will show] and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

Before Israel leaves Kadesh he requests and is refused passage through Edom (Números 20:20). Then, they journeyed from Kadesh (Números 20:22). The vast period of time between being repulsed by the Amorites (Deuteronomio 1:44-45) and the journey around Edom (Deuteronomio 2:1) is not surprising when we remember two things: (1) Very little is said about this nearly thirty-eight year period between visits at Kadesh in any of the accounts; and (2) it simply was not important to Moses-' present purposes of exhortation.

We know that from the first visit to Kadesh until their arrival at the brook Zered at the southeast corner of the Dead Sea, was thirty-eight years (Deuteronomio 2:14).