Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 1:37
The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the new generation of Israelites at the plains of Moab, recounting God’s judgment that followed the spies’ report.
The words — The Hebrew hit’annaf (he was angry) and gam (also) indicate that divine wrath extended to Moses himself because of the people’s rebellion.
The thread — The exclusion from the land appears in Deuteronomy 4:21 and Deuteronomy 34:4, while Numbers 20:12 records the separate incident at Meribah involving Moses and Aaron.
Why it lands — The text plainly states that leadership failure incurs consequences regardless of prior service, and it shifts responsibility to the successors God has appointed.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
Cross-references
- Numbers 20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
- Deuteronomy 4:21 The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 34:4 And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”
- Psalms 106:32 At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
- Numbers 27:13 After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
- Deuteronomy 3:23 At that time I also pleaded with the LORD: