Deuteronomy Chapter 1

Deuteronomy Chapter 1
1 These be the words which Moses
spake unto all Israel, on this side Jordan
in the wilderness, in the plain, over
against the Red Sea, between Paran and
Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and
Dizahab.
2 There are eleven days journey from
Horeb unto Kadesh-barnea, by the way
of mount Seir.
3 And it came to pass in the first day of
the eleventh month, in the fortieth year
that Moses spake unto the children of
Israel according unto all that the Lord
had given him in commandment unto them,
4 After that he had slain Sihon the king
of the Amorites which dwelt in
Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, which
dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei. 5 On this
side Jordan in the land of Moab began
Moses to declare this law, saying,
6 The Lord our God spake unto us in
Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long
enough in this mount,
7 Turn you and depart, and go unto the
mountain of the Amorites, and unto all
places near thereunto in the plain, in the
mountain, or in the valley: both
southward, and to the sea side, to the
land of the Canaanites, and unto
Lebanon: even unto the great river, the
river Perath.
8 Behold, I have set the land before you:
go in and possess that land which the
Lord swear unto your fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and
to their seed after them.
9 And I spake unto you the same time,
saying, I am not able to bear you myself
alone:
10 The Lord your God hath multiplied
you: and behold, ye are this day as the
stars of heaven in number:
11 (The Lord God of your fathers make
you a thousand times so many more as ye
are, and bless you, as he hath promised
you)
12 How can I alone bear your
cumbrance and your charge, and your
strife?
13 Bring you men of wisdom and of
understanding, and known among your
tribes, and I will make them rulers over
you:
14 Then ye answered me and said, The
thing is good that thou hast commanded
us to do.
15 So I took the chief of your tribes wise
and known men, and made them rulers
over you, captains over thousands, and
captains over hundreds, and captains
over fifty, and captains over ten, and
officers among your tribes. 16 And I
charged your judges that same time,
saying, Hear
the controversies between your
brethren, and judge righteously between
every man and his brother, and the
stranger that is with him.
17 Ye shall have no respect of person in
judgment, but shall hear the small as
well as the great: ye shall not fear the
face of man: for the judgment is God’s:
and the cause that is too hard for you,
bring unto me, and I will hear it. 18 Also
I commanded you the same time all the
things which ye should do. 19 Then we
departed from Horeb, and went through
all that great and terrible wilderness (as
ye have seen) by the way of the mountain
of the Amorites, as the Lord our God
commanded us: and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come
unto the mountain of the Amorites, which
the Lord our God doth give unto us.
21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath laid
the land before thee: go
up and possess it, as the Lord the God of
thy fathers hath said unto thee: fear not,
neither be discouraged.
22 Then ye came unto me every one, and
said, We will send men before us, to
search us out the land and to bring us
word again, what way we must go up by,
and unto what cities we shall come.
23 So the saying pleased me well, and I
took twelve men of you, of every tribe
one.
24 Who departed, and went up into the
mountain, and came unto the river
Eshcol, and searched out the land.
25 And took of the fruit of the land in
their hands, and brought it unto us, and
brought us word again, and said, It is a
good land, which the Lord our God doth
give us.
26 Notwithstanding, ye would not go up,
but were disobedient unto the
commandment of the Lord your God,
27 And murmured in your tents, and
said, Because the Lord hated us,
therefore hath he brought us out of the
land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand
of the Amorites, and to destroy us.
28 Whither shall we go up? Our brethren
have discouraged our hearts, saying, The
people is greater, and taller than we: the
cities are great and walled up to heaven:
and moreover we have seen the sons of
the Anakims there.
29 But I said unto you, Dread not, nor be
afraid of them.
30 The Lord your God, who goeth
before you, he shall fight for you,
according to all that he did unto you in
Egypt before your eyes,
31 And in the wilderness, where thou
hast seen how the Lord thy God bear
thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all
the way which ye have gone, until ye
came unto this place.
32 Yet for all this ye did not believe the
Lord your God,
33 Who went in the way before you, to
search you out a place to pitch your tents
in, in fire by night, that ye might see what
way to go, and in a cloud by day.
34 Then the Lord heard the voice of your
words, and was wroth, and swear,
saying,
35 Surely there shall not one of these
men of this froward generation, see that
good land, which I swear to give unto
your fathers,
36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he
shall see it, and to him will I give the
land that he hath trodden upon, and to his
children, because he hath constantly
followed the Lord.
37 Also the Lord was angry with me for
your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not
go in thither,
38 But Joshua the son of Nun which
standeth before thee, he shall go in
thither: encourage him: for he shall
cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover,
your children, which ye said should be a
prey, and your sons, which in that day
had no knowledge between good and
evil, they shall go in thither, and unto
them will I give it, and they shall
possess it. 40 But as for you, turn back,
and take your journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
41 Then ye answered and said unto me,
We have sinned against the Lord, we
will go up, and fight, according to all
that the Lord our God hath commanded
us: and ye armed you every man to the
war, and were ready to go up into the
mountain.
42 But the Lord said unto me, Say unto
them, Go not up, neither fight, (for I am
not among you) lest ye fall before your
enemies.
43 And when I told you, ye would not
hear, but rebelled against the
commandment of the Lord, and were
presumptuous, and went up into the
mountain.
44 Then the Amorites which dwelt in
that mountain came out against you, and
chased you (as bees used to do) and
destroyed you in Seir, even unto
Hormah.
45 And when ye came again, ye wept
before the Lord, but the Lord would not
hear your voice, nor incline his ears unto
you.
46 So ye abode in Kadesh a long time,
according to the time that ye had
remained before.