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Deuteronomy 1:31

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and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.

KJV

And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 1

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILY 18.3 · Written before 253.

See what we are generally taught about God: "God is not as a man to be deceived nor as the son of man to be threatened," and we learn that God is not as man. But other texts say that God is as a man: "For the Lord your God has taught you as a man teaches his son," and again, "As a man he takes on the manners of his son."

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 Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

12 ); but here he owns that it was God that so carried them, and perhaps this is alluded to ( Acts xiii. 18 ), where he is said to bear them, or to suffer their manners. He charges them with the sin which they were guilty of upon this occasion.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Bare thee - Or, carried thee, as a father carries his weak and tender child in his arms, through difficulties and dangers, gently leading you according as you are able to go, and sustaining you by his power and goodness.
And in the wilderness,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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

21 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וּבַמִּדְבָּר֙and in the wilderness

    uvamidbarH4057 →270 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhere

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • רָאִ֔יתָyou saw

    raitaH7200 →1300 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נְשָׂאֲךָ֙he carried you

    nesaakhaH5375 →656 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • יִשָּׂא־he carries

    yisa'-H5375 →656 times

  • אִ֖ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּנ֑וֹchild his

    benoH1121 →4930 times

  • בְּכָל־on all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הַדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙the journey

    haderekhH1870 →707 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הֲלַכְתֶּ֔םyou walked

    halakhtemH1980 →1546 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • בֹּאֲכֶ֖םcame you

    boakhemH935 →2568 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הַמָּק֥וֹםthe place

    hamakomH4725 →401 times

  • הַזֶּֽה׃<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Isaiah 46:3–4“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.13 worksIsaiah 63:9In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.12 worksActs 13:18He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.10 worksDeuteronomy 32:10–12He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.9 worksHosea 11:3–4It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.9 worksExodus 19:4‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.8 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 40:11He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.8 worksNumbers 11:14I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.6 worksPsalms 105:39–41He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.5 worksExodus 16:1–17On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.5 worksJeremiah 31:32It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.5 worksNehemiah 9:12–23You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.4 worksPsalms 78:14–28He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.4 worksNumbers 11:11–12So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?3 worksDeuteronomy 32:12The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.3 worksDeuteronomy 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?3 worksIsaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.3 worksPsalms 28:9Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 63:9

    In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 33:14

      And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

    • Exodus 23:20–21

      Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

    • Malachi 3:1

      “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He…

    • Acts 7:34–35

      I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

    • Acts 12:11

      Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

  • Through

    Acts 13:18

    He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

    it leads to

    • Acts 7:36

      He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

    • Exodus 16:35

      The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

    • Psalms 95:8–11

      do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 1 →

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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILY 18.3.

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