Deuteronomy 1:2

It is a journey of eleven days from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir unto Rekem Giah.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

( There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)

In Context

1These are the words which Mosheh spake with all Israel beyond the Jordan, reproving them because they had sinned in the wilderness, and had provoked (the Lord) to anger on the plains over against the Sea of Suph, in Pharan, where they scorned the manna; and in Hazeroth, where they provoked to anger on account of flesh, and because they had made the golden calf.

3And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, in the first day of the month, Mosheh spake with the sons of Israel according to all that the Lord had commanded him for them.

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:14And when thou offerest the mincha of firstfruits before the Lord, green ears dried with fire, broken and soft, shalt thou offer as the mincha of thy firstfruits.

Numbers 13:26And they went and came to Mosheh, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel at the wilderness of Pharan, at Rekam, and returned the word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 32:8Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Rekem Giah to survey the land.

Deuteronomy 1:44But the Amoraah who dwelt in that mountain came out against you, and pursued you as bees are dispersed, and smote you in Seir unto Hormah.

Deuteronomy 2:8And we passed by from our brethren, the sons of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-Geber; and turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:2-9

Deuteronomy This book is a repetition of very much both of the history and of the laws contained in the three foregoing books, which repetition Moses delivered to Israel (both by word of mouth, that it might affect, and by writing, that it might abide) a little before his death. There is no new history in it but that of the death of Moses in the last chapter, nor any new revelation to Moses, for aught that appears, and therefore the style here is not, as before, The Lord spoke unto Moses, saying. But the former… Read the whole commentary →

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