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go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.” <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Moses Appoints Leaders<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../exodus/18.htm#13">Exodus 18:13–27</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Choose for yourselves wise, understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.” <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.” <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And at that time I commanded you all the things you were to do. <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Twelve Spies Sent Out<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/13.htm">Numbers 13:1–33</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.” <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.” <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.” <A name="27"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Rebellion<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/14.htm">Numbers 14:1–12</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’” <A name="30"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them! <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.” <A name="33"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God, <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel. <A name="35"></a><p class="hdg">Israel’s Penalty<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/14.htm#20">Numbers 14:20–35</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying, <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers, <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.” <A name="38"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span>” <A name="42"></a><p class="hdg">The Defeat at Hormah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/14.htm#40">Numbers 14:40–45</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>“We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country. <A name="43"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.” <A name="44"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country. <A name="45"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah. <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> That is, Mount Sinai, or possibly a mountain in the range containing Mount Sinai; also in verses 6 and 19<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Note that <a href="../deuteronomy/1.htm#6">Deuteronomy 1:6</a> through <a href="../deuteronomy/4.htm#40">Deuteronomy 4:40</a> may be presented as a continuous section of unbroken speech by Moses. 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