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. See also: 1 Samuel 25:1 Joshua 22:7 Genesis 21:21 Numbers 10:12 Numbers 11:35
2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.) See also: Numbers 13:26 Numbers 32:8 Deuteronomy 9:23 Exodus 3:1 Leviticus 2:14
3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; See also: Numbers 33:38 Numbers 20:1 Deuteronomy 4:1-2
4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: See also: Numbers 21:21-35 Deuteronomy 2:26 Joshua 12:2-6 Joshua 13:10-12 Nehemiah 9:22
5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, See also: Deuteronomy 4:8 Deuteronomy 17:18-19 Deuteronomy 31:9 Deuteronomy 32:46
6 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: See also: Exodus 3:1 Numbers 10:11-13 Exodus 17:6 Exodus 19:1-2 Deuteronomy 5:2
7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. See also: Deuteronomy 11:24 Joshua 10:40 Amos 2:9 Joshua 24:15 2 Samuel 8:3
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. See also: Genesis 15:18 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 26:3-4 Genesis 13:14-15 Genesis 17:7-8
9 ¶ And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: See also: Exodus 18:18 Numbers 11:17 Numbers 11:11-14
10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. See also: Genesis 15:5 Genesis 22:17 Exodus 32:13 Deuteronomy 10:22 Deuteronomy 28:62
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!) See also: Psalms 115:14 Genesis 22:17 Numbers 6:27 Genesis 26:4 Genesis 15:5
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? See also: 2 Corinthians 3:5 Numbers 11:11-15 Deuteronomy 1:9 1 Kings 3:7-9 Psalms 89:19
13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. See also: Exodus 18:21 Numbers 11:16-17 Acts 1:21-23 Acts 6:2-6
14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. See also: Exodus 18:25-26 Deuteronomy 16:18 Ephesians 4:11 Numbers 31:14 1 Samuel 8:12
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. See also: John 7:24 Exodus 22:21 Exodus 23:2-3 Exodus 23:7-9 Leviticus 24:22
17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it. See also: Deuteronomy 16:19 Exodus 18:26 James 2:9 Leviticus 19:15 2 Chronicles 19:6
18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. See also: Deuteronomy 4:5 Deuteronomy 4:40 Deuteronomy 12:28 Deuteronomy 12:32 Matthew 28:20
19 ¶ 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 Kadeshbarnea. See also: Deuteronomy 1:2 Deuteronomy 8:15 Jeremiah 2:6 Numbers 13:26 Deuteronomy 32:10
20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us. See also: Deuteronomy 1:7-8
21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. See also: Joshua 1:9 Numbers 14:8-9 Psalms 46:1 Hebrews 13:6 Numbers 13:30
22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. See also: Numbers 13:1-20
23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: See also: Numbers 13:3-33
24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. See also: Numbers 13:21-27 Joshua 2:1-2
25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down 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 rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: See also: Numbers 14:1-4 Psalms 106:24-25 Acts 7:51 Isaiah 63:10
27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. See also: Deuteronomy 9:28 Numbers 14:3 Psalms 106:25 Exodus 16:3 Exodus 16:8
28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, 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. See also: Numbers 13:28-33 Deuteronomy 9:1-2 Joshua 11:22 Joshua 14:8 Joshua 15:14
29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
30 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; See also: Exodus 14:14 Nehemiah 4:20 Romans 8:37 Romans 8:31 Deuteronomy 3:22
31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. See also: Isaiah 46:3-4 Acts 13:18 Deuteronomy 32:10-12 Isaiah 63:9 Hosea 11:3-4
32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, See also: Psalms 106:24 Jude 1:5 Hebrews 3:18-19 Psalms 78:22 Hebrews 3:12
33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. See also: Numbers 10:33 Psalms 78:14 Numbers 9:15-22 Nehemiah 9:12 Ezekiel 20:6
34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, See also: Numbers 14:22-30 Hebrews 3:8-11 Numbers 32:8-13 Deuteronomy 2:14-15 Psalms 95:11
35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, See also: Psalms 95:11
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 wholly followed the LORD. See also: Numbers 14:24 Numbers 32:12 Joshua 14:6-14 Numbers 13:6 Numbers 13:30
37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. See also: Numbers 20:12 Deuteronomy 4:21 Deuteronomy 34:4 Numbers 27:13-14 Psalms 106:32-33
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. See also: Deuteronomy 3:28 Numbers 14:30 Deuteronomy 31:7-8 Deuteronomy 31:14 Deuteronomy 31:23
39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, 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. See also: Isaiah 7:15-16 Numbers 14:3 Numbers 14:31 Jonah 4:11 Romans 9:11
40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. See also: Numbers 14:25
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 commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. See also: Numbers 14:39-45 Numbers 22:34 Proverbs 19:3
42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. See also: Numbers 14:41-43 Joshua 7:8-13 Leviticus 26:17 1 Samuel 4:2 Isaiah 59:1-2
43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill. See also: Numbers 14:44 Isaiah 63:10 Acts 7:51 Romans 8:7-8
44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah. See also: Psalms 118:12 Numbers 14:45 Numbers 21:3 Isaiah 7:18 Deuteronomy 28:25
45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. See also: Hebrews 12:17 Psalms 78:34
46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there. See also: Numbers 20:1 Numbers 20:22 Numbers 14:25 Numbers 14:34 Judges 11:16-17