Deuteronomy 1:2
in Deuteronomy 1It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.
KJV
(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh–barnea.)
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This verse in Deuteronomy 1
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThere are eleven days' journey from Horeb, by the way of Mount Seir, to Kadeshbarnea. Not that the Israelites came thither in eleven days from Horeb, for they stayed by the way at Kibrothhattaavah, a whole month at least, and seven days at Hazeroth; but the sense is, that this was the computed distance between the two places; it was what was reckoned a man might walk in eleven days; and if we reckon a day's journey twenty miles, of which See Gill on Jon 3:3, the distance must be two hundred and twenty miles.
This site's exposition
These are the words that Moses spoke
on Deuteronomy 1:1-2
Verse 2 carries the argument of the chapter: Horeb to Kadesh-barnea is eleven days by way of Mount Seir. Verse 3 dates the speaking to the fortieth year, so an eleven-day road took a generation. Chapter 2:14 counts "thirty-eight years" of it from Kadesh-barnea.
This site's exposition
an eleven-day journey from Horeb
The verse measures the road from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea in days of walking, as Jamieson, Fausset and Brown explain. John Gill counts a day's walk at about twenty miles and puts the distance near two hundred and twenty miles.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
There are eleven days journey - This is added to shew that the reason why the Israelites, in so many years were advanced no farther from Horeb, than to these plains, was not the distance of the places but because of their rebellions.
The time was near the end of the fortieth year since they came out of Egypt. So long God had borne their manners, and they had borne their own iniquity ( Num. xiv. 34 ), and now that a new and more pleasant scene was to be introduced, as a token for good, Moses repeats the law to them.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
There are eleven days’ journey - The Israelites were eleven days in going from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, where they were near the verge of the promised land; after which they were thirty-eight years wandering up and down in the vicinity of this place, not being permitted, because of their rebellions, to enter into the promised rest, though they were the whole of that time within a few miles of the land of Canaan!
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
There are eleven days' journey from Horeb--Distances are computed in the East still by the hours or days occupiesd by the journey. A day's journey on foot is about twenty miles--on camels, at the rate of three miles an hour, thirty miles--and by caravans, about twenty-five miles.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַחַ֨ד | ʾachad | [is] one [plus] | H259 → | 971 times |
| עָשָׂ֥ר | ʾasar | ten | H6240 → | 338 times |
| יוֹם֙ | yom | day[s] | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| מֵֽחֹרֵ֔ב | mechorev | from Horeb | H2722 → | 17 times |
| דֶּ֖רֶךְ | derekh | [the] way of | H1870 → | 707 times |
| הַר־ | har- | [the] mountain of | H2022 → | 546 times |
| שֵׂעִ֑יר | seir | Seir | H8165 → | 39 times |
| עַ֖ד | ʾad | to | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| קָדֵ֥שׁ | kadesh | Kadesh | H6947 → | 20 times |
| בַּרְנֵֽעַ׃ | barnea' | Barnea | H6947 → | 20 times |
אַחַ֨ד[is] one [plus]
ʾachadH259 →971 times
עָשָׂ֥רten
ʾasarH6240 →338 times
יוֹם֙day[s]
yomH3117 →2304 times
מֵֽחֹרֵ֔בfrom Horeb
mechorevH2722 →17 times
דֶּ֖רֶךְ[the] way of
derekhH1870 →707 times
הַר־[the] mountain of
har-H2022 →546 times
שֵׂעִ֑ירSeir
seirH8165 →39 times
עַ֖דto
ʾadH5704 →1261 times
קָדֵ֥שׁKadesh
kadeshH6947 →20 times
בַּרְנֵֽעַ׃Barnea
barnea'H6947 →20 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
Exodus 3:1Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
it leads to
- 1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in…
- Psalms 78:70–72
He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
- Numbers 10:29
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us,…
- 1 Kings 19:8
Through
Numbers 13:26and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit…
it leads to
- Numbers 32:8
This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
- Numbers 32:8
Through
Deuteronomy 1:44Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
it leads to
- Psalms 118:12
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Psalms 118:12
Through
Deuteronomy 9:23And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You…
it leads to
- Psalms 106:24–25
They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
- Hebrews 4:2
For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.
- Psalms 106:24–25
Where this verse is studied
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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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.