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Deuteronomy 1:6

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The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Jehovah our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain:

KJV

The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 1

Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Ye have dwelt long enough, etc. - They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, Exo 19:1, Exo 19:2; and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year.

This site's exposition

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb

on Deuteronomy 1:6-8

The first words this book quotes from God are an order to leave: "You have stayed at this mountain long enough". Clarke reckons the stay at Horeb at close to a year, from Exodus 19:1 to Numbers 10:11.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

The Lord our God spoke unto us in Horeb,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This was the mount that burned with fire ( Heb. xii. 18 ), and gendered to bondage, Gal. iv. Thither God brought them to humble them, and by the terrors of the law to prepare them for the land of promise.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount--Horeb was the general name of a mountainous district; literally, "the parched" or "burnt region," whereas Sinai was the name appropriated to a particular peak [see on Ex 19:2].

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.

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IT is a good thing, sometimes, to look back—to take a retrospective view of our life. It is a very bad thing to live upon the past—to say, "I believe I am a child of God because I had certain spiritual enjoyments and experiences 10 or 12 years ago." Ah, such stale fare as this will not feed hungry souls. They need present enjoyment, or, at least, present confidence in the ever-living God. Yet, Brothers and Sisters, we may sometimes gather fuel for today from the ashes of yesterday's fire. Remembering the mercies of God in the past, we may rest assured concerning the present and the future. If we have wisely learned by experience, we may, from our own failures in the past, gain wisdom which shall enable us to avoid the evils which overcame us on former occasions. It is well to do as you may sometimes have seen the bargemen do on a river or canal. They walk backward, pushing with all their might backward, to drive their barge forward and, sometimes, we may go backward just far enough to help us to push forward, but no further than that! Never must anyone of us say to himself, "What I was in my youth, or what I was in middle life, is a sufficient comfort for me now. Soul, take your ease, for I have much goods laid up for many years." That will never do, for we need to exercise a present faith to enjoy a present love—and to live in present holiness and fear of the Lord. Yet it will help us if we remember all the ways whereby the Lord our God has led us these many years in the wilderness.
2 more voices on this verse

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

IT is a good thing, sometimes, to look back—to take a retrospective view of our life. It is a very bad thing to live upon the past—to say, "I believe I am a child of God because I had certain spiritual enjoyments and experiences 10 or 12 years ago." Ah, such stale fare as this will not feed hungry souls. They need present enjoyment, or, at least, present confidence in the ever-living God. Yet, Brothers and Sisters, we may sometimes gather fuel for today from the ashes of yesterday's fire.
The first and introductory address of Moses to the people is here commenced. It extends to Deu 4:40; and is divided from the second discourse by the Deu 1:4:41-49. A summary of the address is given in the chapter-headings usually found in English Bibles.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • יְהוָ֧הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֛ינוּGod our

    ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times

  • דִּבֶּ֥רhe spoke

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • אֵלֵ֖ינוּto us

    ʾeleinuH413 →5510 times

  • בְּחֹרֵ֣בat Horeb

    bechorevH2722 →17 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • רַב־[is] enough

    rav-H7227 →454 times

  • לָכֶ֥םfor you

    lakhem

  • שֶׁ֖בֶתremaining

    shevetH3427 →1079 times

  • בָּהָ֥רat the mountain

    baharH2022 →546 times

  • הַזֶּֽה׃<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

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

Related verses

8 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 2:3“You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north13 worksExodus 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.11 worksNumbers 10:11–13On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,4 worksExodus 19:1–2In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.3 worksDeuteronomy 5:2The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.3 worksExodus 17:6Behold, 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 the sight of the elders of Israel.3 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 10:13They set out this first time according to the LORD’s command through Moses.2 worksNumbers 33:16They set out from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.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

    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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 10:4

      and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

    • Numbers 20:9–11

      So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded.

    • Nehemiah 9:15

      In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to…

    • Psalms 105:41

      He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

    • Deuteronomy 8:15

      He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

  • Through

    Exodus 3:1

    Meanwhile, 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…

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 5:2

    The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:23

      Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 1 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2957: “Advance!” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); 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.

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