Deuteronomy 1 (NET)

Deuteronomy 1:1¹This is what Moses said to all of Israel in the Transjordanian wilderness, the arid rift valley opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:1Josh 22:7Deut 33:2Gen 21:21Josh 22:4Josh 9:1Josh 9:10Num 10:12Num 11:35Num 12:16

Deuteronomy 1:2²Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 13:26Num 32:8Deut 9:23Deut 1:44Deut 2:4Deut 2:8Exod 3:1Josh 14:6Lev 2:14Lev 9:23

Deuteronomy 1:3³However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the Lord had instructed him to do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 33:38Deut 4:1-2Num 20:1

Deuteronomy 1:4⁴This took place after the defeat of King Sihon of the Amorites, whose capital was in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, whose capital was in Ashtaroth, specifically in Edrei.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 21:21-35Deut 2:26-3:11Josh 12:2-6Josh 13:10-12Neh 9:22Ps 135:11Ps 136:19-20

Deuteronomy 1:5⁵So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 17:18-19Deut 31:9Deut 32:46Deut 4:8

Deuteronomy 1:6⁶The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb and said, “You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 3:1Num 10:11-13Deut 5:2Exod 17:6Exod 19:1-2

Deuteronomy 1:7⁷Head out and resume your journey. Enter the Amorite hill country, and all its neighboring areas, including the rift valley, the hill country, the foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain—all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 11:24Josh 10:40Amos 2:91 Chr 18:31 Chr 5:92 Sam 8:3Josh 24:15Deut 11:11Exod 23:31Gen 15:16-21

Deuteronomy 1:8⁸Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the Lord, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:18Gen 12:7Gen 26:3-4Gen 13:14-15Gen 17:7-8Gen 28:13-14Gen 22:16-18Gen 15:16

Deuteronomy 1:9⁹I also said to you at that time, “I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 18:18Num 11:17Num 11:11-14

Deuteronomy 1:10¹⁰The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:22Exod 32:13Gen 15:5Gen 22:17Deut 28:62Exod 12:37Gen 28:14Neh 9:23Num 1:461 Chr 27:23

Deuteronomy 1:11¹¹Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 115:14Gen 22:17Num 6:27Gen 26:42 Sam 24:3Gen 15:5Gen 49:25Exod 32:13Num 22:121 Chr 21:3

Deuteronomy 1:12¹²But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:51 Kgs 3:7-92 Cor 2:16Deut 1:9Num 11:11-15Ps 89:19Exod 18:13-16

Deuteronomy 1:13¹³Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 18:21Acts 1:21-23Num 11:16-17Acts 6:2-6

Deuteronomy 1:14¹⁴You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Deuteronomy 1:15¹⁵So I chose as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 16:18Exod 18:25-26Eph 4:111 Sam 17:181 Sam 22:71 Sam 8:12Num 31:14

Deuteronomy 1:16¹⁶I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one person and a native Israelite or a resident foreigner.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 7:241 Tim 5:212 Chr 19:6-10Deut 16:18-19Exod 22:21Exod 23:2-3Exod 23:7-9Lev 24:221 Tim 6:172 Sam 23:3

Deuteronomy 1:17¹⁷They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 16:19Exod 18:26Jas 2:92 Chr 19:6Lev 19:15Prov 24:23Exod 18:221 Pet 1:17Jas 2:1-51 Sam 16:7

Deuteronomy 1:18¹⁸So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 20:20Acts 20:27Deut 12:28Deut 12:32Deut 4:40Deut 4:5Matt 28:20

Deuteronomy 1:19¹⁹Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:2Deut 8:15Jer 2:6Deut 32:10Num 13:26Num 10:12

Deuteronomy 1:20²⁰Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country, which the Lord our God is about to give us.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 1:7-8

Deuteronomy 1:21²¹Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 1:9Heb 13:6Num 14:8-9Ps 46:1Num 13:30Deut 20:1Isa 41:10Isa 43:1-2Josh 1:6Luke 12:32

Deuteronomy 1:22²²So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 13:1-20

Deuteronomy 1:23²³I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 13:3-33

Deuteronomy 1:24²⁴They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 13:21-27Josh 2:1-2

Deuteronomy 1:25²⁵Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Deuteronomy 1:26²⁶You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:1-4Acts 7:51Ps 106:24-25Isa 63:10

Deuteronomy 1:27²⁷You complained among yourselves privately and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:28Num 14:3Ps 106:25Exod 16:3Exod 16:8Luke 19:21Matt 25:24Num 21:5

Deuteronomy 1:28²⁸What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:1-2Num 13:28-332 Sam 21:16-22Josh 11:22Josh 14:8Josh 15:14Judg 1:20Deut 20:8Exod 15:15Ezek 21:7

Deuteronomy 1:29²⁹So I responded to you, “Do not be terrified of them!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Deuteronomy 1:30³⁰The Lord your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in EgyptCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 14:14Neh 4:20Rom 8:37Rom 8:31Deut 3:22Josh 10:421 Sam 17:45-46Ps 46:112 Chr 14:11-12Isa 8:9-10

Deuteronomy 1:31³¹and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 46:3-4Acts 13:18Deut 32:10-12Hos 11:3-4Isa 63:9Exod 19:4Isa 40:11Num 11:14Exod 16:1-17Ps 105:39-41

Deuteronomy 1:32³²However, through all this you did not have confidence in the Lord your God,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 106:24Jude 1:5Heb 3:18-19Heb 3:12Ps 78:222 Chr 20:20Isa 7:9

Deuteronomy 1:33³³who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 10:33Ps 78:14Ezek 20:6Neh 9:12Num 9:15-22Exod 13:21-22Exod 14:19-20Isa 4:5-6Num 10:11-12Num 14:14

Deuteronomy 1:34³⁴When the Lord heard you, he became angry and made this vow:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 3:8-11Num 14:22-30Deut 2:14-15Ezek 20:15Num 32:8-13Ps 95:11

Deuteronomy 1:35³⁵“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 95:11

Deuteronomy 1:36³⁶The exception is Caleb son of Jephunneh; he will see it and I will give him and his descendants the territory on which he has walked, because he has wholeheartedly followed me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:24Josh 14:6-14Num 32:12Num 13:30Num 13:6Num 26:65Judg 1:12-15Num 34:19

Deuteronomy 1:37³⁷As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 4:21Num 20:12Deut 34:4Num 27:13-14Ps 106:32-33Deut 3:23-26

Deuteronomy 1:38³⁸However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:28Deut 31:7-8Num 14:301 Sam 16:22Deut 31:14Deut 31:23Prov 22:29Exod 17:9-14Exod 24:13Exod 33:11

Deuteronomy 1:39³⁹Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:15-16Num 14:3Jonah 4:11Num 14:31Rom 9:11Eph 2:3

Deuteronomy 1:40⁴⁰But as for you, turn back and head for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:25

Deuteronomy 1:41⁴¹Then you responded to me and admitted, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will now go up and fight as the Lord our God has told us to do.” So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:39-45Num 22:34Prov 19:3

Deuteronomy 1:42⁴²But the Lord told me: “Tell them this: ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 7:8-13Num 14:41-431 Sam 4:2Hos 9:12Isa 59:1-2Lev 26:171 Sam 4:10Isa 30:17

Deuteronomy 1:43⁴³I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:44Acts 7:51Isa 63:10Rom 8:7-8

Deuteronomy 1:44⁴⁴The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:12Num 14:45Isa 7:18Num 21:3Deut 28:25Deut 32:30

Deuteronomy 1:45⁴⁵Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to you whatsoever.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:17Ps 78:34

Deuteronomy 1:46⁴⁶Therefore, you remained at Kadesh for a long time—indeed, for the full time.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 20:1Num 20:22Judg 11:16-17Num 14:25Num 14:34