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Deuteronomy 1:19
And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites on the plains of Moab, recounting their departure from Horeb immediately after he commanded them to obey God's instructions.
The words — The Hebrew verbs וַנִּסַּע (vanissa) and וַנֵּלֶךְ (vanelekh) literally mean "we set out" and "we walked," marking the physical movement from Horeb toward the hill country of the Amorites.
The thread — This route through the vast and terrifying wilderness is noted in Deuteronomy 1:2 as an eleven-day journey, recalled in Deuteronomy 8:15 regarding God's provision, and referenced in Jeremiah 2:6 as a remembered act of divine guidance.
Why it lands — The text records a concrete movement from a place of divine instruction toward a promised territory, demanding acknowledgment of the path taken rather than mere focus on the destination.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh–barnea.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 1:2 It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 2:6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- Numbers 13:26 and 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 of the land.
- Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- Numbers 10:12 and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.