Deuteronomy
1:1-8
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan—in the wilderness, on the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. (By the way of Mount Seir it takes eleven days to reach Kadesh-barnea from Horeb.)1 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month,2 Moses spoke to the Israelites just as the Lord had commanded him to speak to them.3 This was after he had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law as follows:
“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions—the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, and the sea coast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that I swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’”4
1 Extremely specific location information
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan—in the wilderness, on the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. (By the way of Mount Seir it takes eleven days to reach Kadesh-barnea from Horeb.)1 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month,2 Moses spoke to the Israelites just as the Lord had commanded him to speak to them.3 This was after he had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law as follows:
“The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions—the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, and the sea coast—the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that I swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.’”4
1 Extremely specific location information
2
Forty years in. Wow.
3
Deuteronomy starts by commenting on Moses's obedience.
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God's promises from long ago are set to be fulfilled now.
Take-home: The stage is set in Deuteronomy a a faithful Moses exhorts the people in preparation of God's imminent fulfillment of his promise to give them the Holy Land.
Take-home: The stage is set in Deuteronomy a a faithful Moses exhorts the people in preparation of God's imminent fulfillment of his promise to give them the Holy Land.
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