Deuteronomy 1:29
in Deuteronomy 1So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
KJV
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 1
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThen I said unto you, dread not, neither be afraid of them. With such like words he had exhorted and encouraged them before the spies were sent, and he still uses the same, or stronger terms, notwithstanding the report that had been made of the gigantic stature and walled cities of the Canaanites. This speech of Moses, which is continued in the two following verses, is not recorded in Num 14:5, it is only there said, that Moses and Aaron fell on their faces, but no account is given of what was said by either of them.
This site's exposition
Then I said unto you, Dread not
on Deuteronomy 1:29-31
The answer Moses gave was that God fights, and the evidence offered was Egypt, which they had watched with their own eyes. Verse 31 then changes the figure, the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, which is a father carrying a tired child rather than a captain leading troops. Acts 13:18 looks back on the same forty years, and a body of Greek manuscripts there reads a verb meaning to carry as a nurse carries a child, which is what the Septuagint has at this verse, while other manuscripts read the verb behind the King James rendering that he suffered their manners.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
): Then I said unto you, Dread not. Moses suggested enough to have stilled the tumult, and to have kept them with their faces towards Canaan. He assured them that God was present with them, and president among them, and would certainly fight for them,
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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 Nu 13:1).
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The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וָאֹמַ֖ר | vaomar | and I said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲלֵכֶ֑ם | ʾalekhem | to you | H413 → | 5510 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תַֽעַרְצ֥וּן | taartzun | you must be terrified ! | H6206 → | 15 times |
| וְֽלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִֽירְא֖וּן | tirun | you must be afraid ! | H3372 → | 315 times |
| מֵהֶֽם׃ | mehem | from them |
וָאֹמַ֖רand I said
vaomarH559 →5305 times
אֲלֵכֶ֑םto you
ʾalekhemH413 →5510 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
תַֽעַרְצ֥וּןyou must be terrified !
taartzunH6206 →15 times
וְֽלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
תִֽירְא֖וּןyou must be afraid !
tirunH3372 →315 times
מֵהֶֽם׃from them
mehem
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.