Deuteronomy 1:38
in Deuteronomy 1Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
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ASV
Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
KJV
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 1
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes
on Deuteronomy 1:37-38
Moses gives the reason he cannot enter three times in this book, here and at 3:26 and 4:21, and all three say the LORD was angry with him for your sakes. Numbers 20:12 gives the reason as unbelief at the waters of Meribah, which the narrative places in the fortieth year rather than at Kadesh in the second. Both accounts stand in the canon, and readers account for the placing differently, some taking verse 37 as Moses gathering his own exclusion into the story of the people's, others as a later occasion mentioned out of its order. The one instruction attached is about Joshua, and it is laid on Israel rather than on Joshua, encourage him.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
): Encourage him; for he would be discouraged from taking up a government which he saw Moses himself fall under the weight of; but let him be assured that he shall accomplish that for which he is raised up: He shall cause Israel to inherit it. Thus what the law could not do, in that it was weak, Jesus, our Joshua, does by bringing in the better hope.
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But Joshua, the son of Nun, which standeth before thee,....
Thus they could not enter in because of unbelief. It was not the breach of any of the commands of the law that shut them out of Canaan, no, not the golden calf, but their disbelief of that promise which was typical of gospel grace, to signify that no sin will ruin us but unbelief, which is a sin against the remedy.
The words behind it
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יְהוֹשֻׁ֤עַ | yehoshua' | Joshua | H3091 → | 218 times |
| בִּן | bin- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| נוּן֙ | nun | Nun | H5126 → | 30 times |
| הָעֹמֵ֣ד | haomed | who stands | H5975 → | 521 times |
| לְפָנֶ֔יךָ | lefaneikha | <to> before you | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| ה֖וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| יָ֣בֹא | yavo' | he will go | H935 → | 2568 times |
| שָׁ֑מָּה | shamah | there towards | H8033 → | 834 times |
| אֹת֣וֹ | ʾoto | <obj.> him | H853 → | 10935 times |
| חַזֵּ֔ק | chazek | encourage | H2388 → | 291 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| ה֖וּא | hu' | he | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| יַנְחִלֶ֥נָּה | yanchilenah | he will give as an inheritance it | H5157 → | 59 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
יְהוֹשֻׁ֤עַJoshua
yehoshua'H3091 →218 times
בִּן[the] son of
bin-H1121 →4930 times
נוּן֙Nun
nunH5126 →30 times
הָעֹמֵ֣דwho stands
haomedH5975 →521 times
לְפָנֶ֔יךָ<to> before you
lefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times
ה֖וּאhe
hu'H1931 →1879 times
יָ֣בֹאhe will go
yavo'H935 →2568 times
שָׁ֑מָּהthere towards
shamahH8033 →834 times
אֹת֣וֹ<obj.> him
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
חַזֵּ֔קencourage
chazekH2388 →291 times
כִּי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
ה֖וּאhe
hu'H1931 →1879 times
יַנְחִלֶ֥נָּהhe will give as an inheritance it
yanchilenahH5157 →59 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Deuteronomy 3:28But commission Joshua, encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 31:3
The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Acts 7:45
And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 31:23
Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with…
- Deuteronomy 31:7
Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to…
- Deuteronomy 31:3
Through
Deuteronomy 31:23Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 31:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua…
- Deuteronomy 31:7–8
Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to…
- Deuteronomy 31:14
Through
Numbers 14:30Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:36–38
except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”
- Numbers 14:38
Of those men who had gone to spy out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive.
- Deuteronomy 1:36–38
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This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; 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.