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Deuteronomy 1:40

in Deuteronomy 1

But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

KJV

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
But as for you, turn ye,.... From the mountain of the Amorites, the border of the land of Canaan: and take your journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea: see Num 14:25. Jarchi says this wilderness was by the side of the Red sea, to the south of Mount Seir, and divided between the Red sea and the mount; so that now they drew to the side of the sea, and compassed Mount Seir, all the south of it, from west to east.

This site's exposition

Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey

on Deuteronomy 1:39-40

The children the parents said would be taken as spoil, at Numbers 14:3, are the ones handed the land at Numbers 14:31 and here. Which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil marks an age beneath responsibility, and Isaiah 7:15-16 uses the same measure of a child; where that line falls has been argued over for centuries and this text does not set it. The direction then reverses in verse 40, back into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, away from a border they were standing on.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

People often experience distress even while in the way of duty. But how different their condition who suffer in situations where God is with them from the feelings of those who are conscious that they are in a position directly opposed to the divine will!

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וְאַתֶּ֖םand you

    veatemH859 →1094 times

  • פְּנ֣וּturn

    penuH6437 →135 times

  • לָכֶ֑ם<for> yourselves

    lakhem

  • וּסְע֥וּand set out

    useuH5265 →146 times

  • הַמִּדְבָּ֖רָהthe wilderness towards

    hamidbarahH4057 →270 times

  • דֶּ֥רֶךְ[the] way of

    derekhH1870 →707 times

  • יַם־[the] sea of

    yam-H3220 →396 times

  • סֽוּף׃reed[s]

    sufH5488 →28 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

4 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

    Numbers 14:25

    Now since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”

    it leads to

    • Numbers 13:29

      The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

    • Psalms 81:11–13

      But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

    • Numbers 14:4

      So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

    • Proverbs 1:31

      So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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