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Deuteronomy 1:26 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God: "
Deuteronomy 1:26
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And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
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
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
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
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
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Deuteronomy 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."
Deuteronomy 1:2
"(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)"
Deuteronomy 1:3
"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"
Deuteronomy 1:4
"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:"
Deuteronomy 1:5
"On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,"
Deuteronomy 1:6
"The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:"
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