Deuteronomy 1:34
in Deuteronomy 1When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
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ASV
And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
KJV
And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
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This verse in Deuteronomy 1
Commentary
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When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry
on Deuteronomy 1:34-36
The sworn sentence falls on "this evil generation", the adults numbered at Numbers 14:29. Verse 36 excepts Caleb, because "he followed the LORD wholeheartedly." He claims this promise at eighty-five in Joshua 14:9-12.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The date of this sermon which Moses preached to the people of Israel. A great auditory, no question, he had, as many as could crowd within hearing, and particularly all the elders and officers, the representatives of the people; and, probably, it was on the sabbath day that he delivered this to them. The place were they were now encamped was in the plain, in the land of Moab (
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And the Lord heard the voice of your words,.... Of their murmurings against Moses and Aaron, and of their threatenings to them, Joshua and Caleb, and of their impious charge of hatred of them to God for bringing them out of Egypt, and of their rash wishes that they had died there or in the wilderness, and of their wicked scheme and proposal to make them a captain, and return to Egypt again: and was wroth, and sware; by his life, himself; see Num 14:28, saying; as follows.
Thus they could not enter in because of unbelief. It was not the breach of any of the commands of the law that shut them out of Canaan, no, not the golden calf, 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.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth--In consequence of this aggravated offense (unbelief followed by open rebellion), the Israelites were doomed, in the righteous judgment of God, to a life of wandering in that dreary wilderness till the whole adult generation had disappeared by death.
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The Lord - was wroth - That is, his justice was incensed, and he evidenced his displeasure against you; and he could not have been a just God if he had not done so.
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע | vaiyishma' | and he heard | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| ק֣וֹל | kol | [the] sound of | H6963 → | 506 times |
| דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑ם | divreikhem | words your | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| וַיִּקְצֹ֖ף | vaiyiktzof | and he was angry | H7107 → | 34 times |
| וַיִּשָּׁבַ֥ע | vaiyishava' | and he swore an oath | H7650 → | 186 times |
| לֵאמֹֽר׃ | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַיִּשְׁמַ֥עand he heard
vaiyishma'H8085 →1159 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
ק֣וֹל[the] sound of
kolH6963 →506 times
דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑םwords your
divreikhemH1697 →1440 times
וַיִּקְצֹ֖ףand he was angry
vaiyiktzofH7107 →34 times
וַיִּשָּׁבַ֥עand he swore an oath
vaiyishava'H7650 →186 times
לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 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
Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
it leads to
- Hebrews 3:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Hebrews 4:3
Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And…
- Hebrews 4:5
And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Numbers 14:23
not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
- Hebrews 3:18
And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
- Hebrews 3:11
Through
Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory…
it leads to
- Psalms 95:11
So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Psalms 106:26
So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
- Ezekiel 20:23
However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
- Psalms 95:11
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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; 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.