Deuteronomy 1:6-Deuteronomy 3:29 - Historical Prologue
6 Jehovah our God spake to us in Horeb, saying, It was enough to you to dwell in this mount: 7 Turn ye and remove for yourselves, and go to the mountain of the Amorite, and to all his neighbors in the sterile region, in the mountain, and in the low country, and in the south and in the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanites and of Lebanon to the great river, the river Phrath 8 See, I gave the land before you: go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware to your fathers, to Abraham to Isaak and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.
9 And I spake to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able alone to bear you: 10 Jehovah your God multiplied you, and behold, you this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. 11 Jehovah the God of your fathers will add to you as ye a thousand times, and he will bless you as he spake to you. 12 How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife 13 Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads.
14 And ye will answer me and say, Good the word which thou spakest to do.
15 And I will take the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I will give them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains and hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and scribes for your tribes. 16 And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger. 17 Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it 18 And I will command you in that time all the words which ye shall do.
19 And we shall remove from Horeb and we shall go all that great and fearful desert which ye saw, the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we shall come to Kadesh-Barnea. 20 And I said to you, Ye came to the mountain of the Amorite which Jehovah our God gave to us. 21 See, Jehovah thy God gave the land before thee: go up, possess, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers spake to thee; thou shalt not fear and thou shalt not be pressed down.
22 And ye shall come near to me all of you, and ye will say, We will send men before us, and they shall search out for us the land, and shall turn us back word the way which we shall go up into it, and the cities which we shall come into them. 23 And the word will be good in mine eyes: and I will take from you twelve men, one man to a tribe. 24 And they will turn and go up to the mountain, and they will come to the valley of Eshcol, and will search it out 25 And they will take in their hand from the fruit of the land, and they will come down to us and will turn us back word, and will say, A good land which Jehovah our God gave to us.
26 And ye were not willing to go up, and ye will rebel against the mouth of Jehovah your God, 27 And ye will murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us he brought us out of the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us. 28 Whither are we going up? our brethren melted our heart, saying, A people great and high above us; cities great and fortified to the heavens; and also, the sons of the Anakims, we saw there.
29 And I said to you, Ye shall not be terrified, and ye shall not be afraid of them. 30 Jehovah your God went before you; he will fight for you according to all that he did to you in Egypt before your eyes. 31 And in the desert where thou sawest that Jehovah thy God lifted thee up, as a man will lift up his son, in all the way that ye went till your coming to this place. 32 And in this word ye are not believing in Jehovah your God. 33 He going in the way before you to search out for you a place for you to encamp, in fire by night, to cause you to see in what way ye shall go in it, and in a cloud by day.
34 And Jehovah will hear the voice of your words, and he will be angry, and he will swear, saying, 35 If a man among these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I sware to give to your fathers, 36 Except Caleb, son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him I will give the land which he trod upon it, and to his sons, because that he filled up after Jehovah.
37 Also with me was Jehovah angry on account of you, saying, Also thou shalt not come in there. 38 Joshua son of Nun, standing before thee, he shall come in there: strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it 39 And your little ones which ye said shall be for a spoil, and your sons which knew not that day good and evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it 40 And you, turn for yourselves and remove to the desert the way of the sea of sedge.
41 And ye will answer and say to me, We sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye will gird on each the weapon of his fighting, and ye will act lightly to go up to the mountain.
42 And Jehovah will say to me, Say to them, Ye shall not go up, and ye shall not fight; for I am not in the midst of you and ye shall not be smitten before your enemies. 43 And I shall speak to you, and ye heard not; and ye will rebel against the mouth of Jehovah, and ye will act proudly, and will go up to the mountain. 44 And the Amorite dwelling in that mountain will come forth to your meeting, and will pursue you as bees will do, and they will beat you in Seir to Hormah. 45 And ye will turn back and will weep before Jehovah; and Jehovah heard not to your voice and gave not ear to you. 46 And ye shall dwell in Kadesh many days according to the days that ye dwelt.
1 And turning and removing to the desert the way of the sea of sedge, as Jehovah spake to me: and encompassing mount Seir many days. 2 And Jehovah will speak to me, saying, 3 It was enough to you to encompass this mount; turn for yourselves to the north, 4 And command the people, saying, Ye are passing over through the bound of your brethren the sons of Esau, dwelling in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: and ye shall watch greatly. 5 Ye shall not contend with them, for I will not give to you from their land even to the treading of the sole of the foot, for I gave mount Seir to Esau for a possession. 6 Ye shall buy food from them for silver, and ye ate: and also shall ye buy water from them for silver, and ye drank 7 For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in every work of thy hand: he knew thy going in this great desert: this forty years Jehovah thy God with thee; thou didst not lack a word.
8 And we shall pass by our brethren the sons of Esau, dwelling in Seir, from the way of the sterile region from Elath, and from Ezion-Gaber, we shall turn and shall pass over the way of the desert of Moab. 9 And Jehovah will say to me, Thou shalt not press Moab, and thou shalt not contend with them in war; for I shall not give to thee his land a possession, for to the sons of Lot I gave Ar a possession.
10 (The Emims dwelt in it before them, a people great and many and high as the Anakims; 11 And they will be reckoned Rephaims also, as the Anakims; and the Moabites will call them Emims. 12 And the Horims dwelt in Seir before them, and the sons of Esau will inherit them, and they will destroy them from before them, and they will dwell instead of them; as Israel did to the land of his possession which Jehovah gave to them.)
13 Now rise up and pass over for yourselves the valley Zered; and we shall pass through the torrent Zered. 14 And the days which we came from Kadesh-Barnea till we passed over the valley Zered, thirty and eight years; till all the generation of men of war was finished from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware to them. 15 For also the hand of Jehovah was against them to finish them from the midst of the camp, till their finishing.
16 And it will be as when all the men of war were finished to die from the midst of the people, 17 And Jehovah will speak to me, saying, 18 Pass thou over this day Ar, the boundary of Moab: 19 And thou camest near over against the sons of Ammon, thou shalt not press them, and thou shalt not contend with them: for I will not give from the land of the sons of Ammon to thee a possession; for to the sons of Lot I gave it a possession.
20 It also shall be reckoned the land of the Rephaims; the Rephaims dwelt in it before them, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims; 21 A people great and many, and high as the Anakims; and Jehovah will destroy them from before their face; and they will inherit them and will dwell instead of them: 22 As he did to the sons of Esau dwelling in Seir when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they will inherit them and will dwell instead of them, even to this day: 23 And the Avims dwelling in the enclosures, even to Azzah, the Caphtorims, coming forth from Caphtor, destroyed them, and they dwelt instead of them.
24 Rise ye up, remove and pass through the torrent Arnon: see, I gave into thy hand Sihon, king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land: begin and possess and thou shalt contend with him in war. 25 This day I will begin to give thy fear and thy terror upon the face of the peoples under all the heavens who shall hear thy report; and they trembled and were concerned from thy face.
26 And I will send messengers out of the desert of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 27 I will pass over in thy land.; in the way, in the way I will go, I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. 28 Thou shalt sell me food for silver, and I ate; and thou shalt give to me water for silver, and I drank: only I will pass through on my feet; 29 (As the sons of Esau did to me dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites dwelling in Ar,) till when I shall pass over Jordan to the land which Jehovah our God gave to us. 30 And Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass by him, for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart strong in order to give him into thy hand as this day.
31 And Jehovah will say to me, See, I began to give before thee Sihon and his land: begin and possess to inherit his land. 32 And Sihon came forth to our meeting, he and all his people to war at Jahaz. 33 Jehovah our God will give him before us; and he smote him and his sons and all his people. 34 And we shall take all his cities in that time, and we shall exterminate every city of men and women and the little ones; we left none to escape. 35 Only the cattle we plundered for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. 36 From Aroer which is upon the lip of the torrent Arnon, and the city which is by the torrent, and even to Gilead, not a city which was high above us: Jehovah our God gave all before us. 37 Only to the land of the sons of Ammon thou camest not near, all the land of the torrent Jabbok and the cities of the mountain: all which Jehovah our God commanded us.
1 And we shall turn and go up the way of Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, will come forth to our meeting, he and all his people to war at Edrei. 2 And Jehovah will say to me, Thou shalt not fear him, for into thy hand I gave him and all his people, and his land; and do to him as thou didst to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who will dwell in Hebron. 3 And Jehovah our God will give into our hand also Og, king of Bashan, and all his people: and we shall smite him till none remained to him escaping. 4 And we shall take all his cities in that time, and there was not a city which we took not from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, from the kingdom of Og in Bashan 5 All these cities fortified with high walls, doors and bars; besides of cities of the open country exceedingly many. 6 And we shall exterminate them as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, exterminating men, women, and little ones. 7 And all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we plundered for ourselves.
8 And we shall take in that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, which is on the other side Jordan from the torrent Arnon, even to mount Hermon. 9 (The Sidonians will call to Hermon, Sirion; and the Amorites will call to it, Shenk.) 10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, even to Salchah and Edrei, cities from the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11 For only Og, king Of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the Rephaims; behold, his bed, a bed of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length and four cubits its breadth, according to the cubit of a man.
12 And this land we possessed in that time from Aroer which is by the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gates. 13 And the remnant of Gilead and all Bashan from the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob and all Bashan, it will be called the land of Rephaims. 14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the region of Argob, even to the boun of Geshuri and Maachathi; and he call them according to his name, Bashan-Havath-Jair, even to this day.. 15 And to Machir I gave Gilead. 16 And to the Reubemtes and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the torrent Anion, the midst of the torrent and the boundary and even to the emptying of the torrent, the boundary of the sons of Ammon. 17 And the sterile region, and Jordan, and the boundary from Chinnereth, and even to the sea of the desert, the salt sea under the ravines of Pisgah from the sunrising.
18 And I shall command you in that time, saying, Jehovah your God gave to you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren, the sons of Israel, all sons of strength. 19 Only your wives and your little ones and your cattle (I knew that much cattle to you) they shall dwell in your cities which I gave to you, 20 Till when Jehovah shall cause your brethren to rest as you, and they also shall possess the land which Jehovah, your God, gave to them on the other side of Jordan: and ye turned back each to his possession which I gave to you.
21 And I commanded Joshua in that time, saying, Thine eyes saw all that Jehovah, your God, did to these two kings: so will Jehovah do to all the kingdoms which ye pass through there. 22 Ye shall not be afraid of them, for Jehovah, your God, he shall fight for you.
23 And I shall entreat Jehovah in that time, saying,