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Deuteronomy 1:8

in Deuteronomy 1

See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

KJV

Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

This verse in Deuteronomy 1

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I have set the land before you--literally, "before your faces"--it is accessible; there is no impediment to your occupation. The order of the journey as indicated by the places mentioned would have led to a course of invasion, the opposite of what was eventually followed; namely, from the seacoast eastward--instead of from the Jordan westward (see on Nu 20:1).

This site's exposition

The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb

on Deuteronomy 1:6-8

The first words quoted from God in this book are an order to leave, ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. Clarke reckons the stay at Horeb at close to a year, from the arrival at Exodus 19:1 to the departure at Numbers 10:11. The borders named in verse 7 reach the Euphrates, which is the grant made to Abram at Genesis 15:18, and verse 8 speaks as though the matter were closed, I have set the land before you, resting it on an oath sworn to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob rather than on anything the hearers have done.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

Behold, I have set the land before you,.... Described it to them, and set its bounds, as well as had given them a grant of it: go in and possess the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and their seed after them: and which being thus made sure unto them, they had nothing more to do than to go and take possession of it.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

in the fortieth year . . . Moses spake unto the children of Israel, &c.--This impressive discourse, in which Moses reviewed all that God had done for His people, was delivered about a month before his death, and after peace and tranquillity had been restored by the complete conquest of Sihon and Og.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase

The words behind it

20 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.

  • רְאֵ֛הsee

    reehH72001300 times

  • נָתַ֥תִּיI set

    natatiH54142011 times

  • לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם<to> before you

    lifneikhemH64402123 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • בֹּ֚אוּgo

    bouH9352568 times

  • וּרְשׁ֣וּand take possession of

    ureshuH3423231 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • נִשְׁבַּ֣עhe swore

    nishba'H7650186 times

  • יְ֠הוָהYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • לַאֲבֹ֨תֵיכֶ֜םto ancestors your

    laavoteikhemH11212 times

  • לְאַבְרָהָ֨םto Abraham

    leavrahamH85175 times

  • לְיִצְחָ֤קto Isaac

    leyitzchakH3327108 times

  • וּֽלְיַעֲקֹב֙and to Jacob

    uleyaakoH3290350 times

  • לָתֵ֣תto give

    latetH54142011 times

  • לָהֶ֔םto them

    lahem

  • וּלְזַרְעָ֖םand to offspring their

    ulezaramH2233229 times

  • אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃after them

    ʾachareihemH310715 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

    Genesis 15:18

    On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

    it leads to

    • Genesis 13:15

      for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 1:3–4

      I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.

    • Genesis 12:7

      Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

    • Genesis 24:7

      The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this…

    • Deuteronomy 11:24

      Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

  • Through

    Genesis 12:7

    Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 17:8

      And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”

    • Genesis 17:1

      When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

    • Genesis 18:1

      Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.

Where this verse is studied

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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.