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Deuteronomy 4:21

in Deuteronomy 4

The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Furthermore Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

KJV

Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes,.... See Deu 3:26, and sware that I should not go over Jordan; this circumstance of swearing is nowhere else expressed: and that I should not go in unto that good land; the land of Canaan; he might see it, as he did from Pisgah, but not enter into it: which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance; to them and to their children after them.

This site's exposition

Furthermore the Lord was angry with me

on Deuteronomy 4:21-22

This is the third time in four chapters that Moses gives the reason he cannot cross, after 1:37 and 3:26, and all three say the Lord was angry with me for your sakes. Numbers 20:12 gives the reason from the other side, because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel. Both accounts stand in the canon and neither book reconciles them. Verse 22 states the outcome without softening it, I must die in this land, and the sentence turns at once to what the people will do after him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He mentions this to try their ingenuousness, whether they would really be troubled for the great prejudice which they had occasioned to their faithful friend and leader.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The Lord was angry with me - And if with me, so as to debar me from entering into the promised land, can you think to escape if guilty of greater provocations?

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.

  • וַֽיהוָ֥הand Yahweh

    vayahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • הִתְאַנֶּף־he was angry

    hitanef-H599 →14 times

  • בִּ֖יwith me

    bi

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑םwords your

    divreikhemH1697 →1440 times

  • וַיִּשָּׁבַ֗עand he swore

    vaiyishava'H7650 →186 times

  • לְבִלְתִּ֤יto not

    leviltiH1115 →112 times

  • עָבְרִי֙to pass over I

    ʾaveriH5674 →556 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • וּלְבִלְתִּי־and to not

    ulevilti-H1115 →112 times

  • בֹא֙to go

    vo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאָ֣רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַטּוֹבָ֔ה<the> good

    hatovahH2896 →538 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • נֹתֵ֥ן[is] about to give

    notenH5414 →2011 times

  • לְךָ֖to you

    lekha

  • נַחֲלָֽה׃an inheritance

    nachalahH5159 →222 times

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

Related verses

6 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.

Deuteronomy 1:37The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.6 worksNumbers 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”6 worksPsalms 106:32–33At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.5 worksDeuteronomy 31:2he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’3 worksDeuteronomy 3:26But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.3 worksDeuteronomy 2:29just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”2 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

    Numbers 20:12

    But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:37

      The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 27:14

      for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in…

    • Ezekiel 36:23

      I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the…

    • Numbers 20:24

      “Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will not enter the land that I have given the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the waters of Meribah.

    • Deuteronomy 3:23–27

      At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 1:37

    The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 20:12

      But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 31:2

    he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 34:7

      Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

    • Numbers 27:17

      who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

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 4 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.

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