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Deuteronomy 1:46

in Deuteronomy 1

For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

KJV

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

This verse in Deuteronomy 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
So ye abode in Kadesh many days,.... Yea, some years, as some think: according to the days that ye abode there; that is, according to Jarchi, as they did in the rest of the journeys or stations; so that as they were thirty eight years in all at several places, they were nineteen years in Kadesh; the same is affirmed in the Jewish chronology (w).

This site's exposition

And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain

on Deuteronomy 1:44-46

Verse 44 names the Amorites as the ones who chased them as bees do; Numbers 14:45 names the Amalekites and the Canaanites. Both accounts stand and the difference is left standing with them. Hormah carries the sense of a thing devoted to destruction, and Numbers 21:1-3 has Israel later fastening that name on a place they destroy in their turn. Verse 45 says the LORD would not hearken to their weeping, and verse 46 covers the years that follow in half a sentence, ye abode in Kadesh many days, which 2:14 counts as thirty and eight.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

According unto the days that ye abode there - They had been a long time at this place, see Num 13:27; Num 20:1, Num 20:14, Num 20:21. And some think that the words mean, “Ye abode as long at Kadesh, when you came to it the second time, as ye did at the first.” Or, according to others, “While ye were in that part of the desert, ye encamped at Kadesh.”

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So ye abode at Kadesh many days--That place had been the site of their encampment during the absence of the spies, which lasted forty days, and it is supposed from this verse that they prolonged their stay there after their defeat for a similar period.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וַתֵּשְׁב֥וּand you remained

    vateshevuH34271079 times

  • בְקָדֵ֖שׁat Kadesh

    vekadeshH6946

  • יָמִ֣יםdays

    yamimH31172304 times

  • רַבִּ֑יםmany

    rabimH7227454 times

  • כַּיָּמִ֖יםlike the days

    kaiyamimH31172304 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • יְשַׁבְתֶּֽם׃you remained

    yeshavtemH34271079 times

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

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

    Numbers 14:34

    In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 4:6

      When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each…

    • Numbers 13:25

      After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

    • Jeremiah 18:9–10

      And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,

    • Daniel 9:24

      Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up…

  • 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

    • Deuteronomy 1:40

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

    • 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.”

  • Through

    Numbers 20:1

    In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 13:21

      So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

    • Exodus 15:20

      Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

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.

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 Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.