Deuteronomy 1:32
in Deuteronomy 1But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
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ASV
Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God,
KJV
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God,
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This verse in Deuteronomy 1
Commentary
6 notes on this verseYet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God. That they might go up and possess the land at once, and that he would fight for them, and subdue their enemies under them; or notwithstanding the favours bestowed upon them, and because of them, they did not believe in the Lord their God, and which was a great aggravation of their unbelief, and was the cause of their not entering into the good land, Heb 3:19.
This site's exposition
Yet in this thing ye did not believe
on Deuteronomy 1:32-33
The verdict on the whole episode is one charge, that they did not believe the LORD their God. Verse 33 names what they declined to trust, the one who went before them in fire by night and in a cloud by day and who had been finding the ground for their tents the entire way. They had asked at verse 22 for men to search out the land, and verse 33 says God had been doing that work ahead of them already. Hebrews 3:19 gives the same account of why that generation stayed out, that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
12 ); but here he owns that it was God that so carried them, and perhaps this is alluded to ( Acts xiii. 18 ), where he is said to bear them, or to suffer their manners. He charges them with the sin which they were guilty of upon this occasion.
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Ye did not believe the Lord - So they could not enter in, because of unbelief. It was not any other sin shut them out of Canaan, but their disbelief of that promise, which was typical of gospel grace: to signify that no sin will ruin us but unbelief, which is a sin against the remedy; and therefore without remedy.
All your disobedience to God's laws, and distrust of his power and goodness, flow from a disbelief of his word. A sad pass it has come to with us when the God of eternal truth cannot be believed. He repeats the sentence passed upon them for this sin, which now they had seen the execution of.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
ye came . . . and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land--The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the people through unbelief; but Moses, believing them sincere, gave his cordial assent to this measure, and God on being consulted permitted them to follow the suggestion (see on Nu 13:1).
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The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבַדָּבָ֖ר | uvadavar | and in the thing | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| הַזֶּ֑ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| אֵֽינְכֶם֙ | ʾeinekhem | not you | H369 → | 789 times |
| מַאֲמִינִ֔ם | maaminim | [were] trusting | H539 → | 106 times |
| בַּיהוָ֖ה | bayahweh | in Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
וּבַדָּבָ֖רand in the thing
uvadavarH1697 →1440 times
הַזֶּ֑ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
אֵֽינְכֶם֙not you
ʾeinekhemH369 →789 times
מַאֲמִינִ֔ם[were] trusting
maaminimH539 →106 times
בַּיהוָ֖הin Yahweh
bayahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃God your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 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
Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:24
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 18:12
But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- 1 Corinthians 10:12
So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
- Jeremiah 17:5
Through
Jude 1:5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
it leads to
- Hebrews 3:16
For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
- Numbers 26:64–65
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- 1 Corinthians 10:1–12
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
- Hebrews 3:16
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.