Deuteronomy 1

Deuteronomy 1:1

These] Is an Inscription of the whole book, and an accurate description of the Place, where Moses delivered, and did, what in this book is contained.

Deuteronomy 1:2

Eleven] The eleven dayes journey end either at Kadesh-barneah; or, compassing about by the way of Mount Seir, and Kadesh-barneah, it ends at, and in the Plaines of Moab. Both which ser to shew how soone they might have come from Horeb or Sinai to Canaan; had they not provoked God by their sinne, Num. XIV. instead of that eleven dayes journey, to keep them wandring in the wildernesse 38. years after.

Horeb] Horeb and Mount Sinai are taken for the same, Exod. III 1. See on that Text, Deut. I. 2, 6, 19. and IV. 10, 15. and V. 2. and IX. 8. 1 King. XIX. 8 Mal. IV. 4. They being close neighbours, or rather two tops of the same Mount. The Israelites abode almost a year there, Deut. I. 6. Exod. XIX. 1 Num. X. 11.

Deuteronomy 1:4

Og that dwelt at Ashteroth, was slaine in Edrei, another of his royal Cities, Ch. III. 1. Num. XXI. 33. Josh. XIII. 12, 31. and XII. 4.

Deuteronomy 1:37

Angry] Gods anger at Moses here mentioned, was not in the second year, when and where the Spies were sent from Kadesh-barnea, Num. XIII. and XIV. But in the fourtieth year at that other Kadesh, when and where Miriam died, Num. XX. 1, 2, 12.

Deuteronomy 1:46

Many dayes] The Israelites abode in Kadesh many dayes. And they compassed Mount Seir many dayes: The space in which they came from Kadesh-barnea, till they came over the brook Zered, or pitch’d in the Valley of Zared, in Moab, being their thirty ninth Station, was thirty eight years; which was in the beginning of the fourtieth year of their coming out of Egypt, Deut. II. 1, 2, 3, 7, 14. some take thirty seven years and a half of this time to be spent at Kadesh-barnea: And sure the most of it was spent there; and the lesser and later part of it in compassing Mount Seir: And the other half year spent in coming from Mount Seir to Zered. See Deut. II. 7.