Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 1:20
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
20. Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites ] See on Deu 1:7. If adesh be ‘Ain udeis, the Negeb still lay between Israel and the Mt of the Amorite as J, Num 13:17 b, 22, correctly notices. The omission here is due to the summary character of the review, and has no bearing on the position of adesh.
giveth ] Heb. giving with the force of is about to give: followed by ground or land, it forms a phrase peculiar to D. See on Deu 1:8.
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20 25. The Mission of the Spies
Arrived at the Mt of the Amorite, promised them by God, and exhorted to invade it (Deu 1:20 f.), the people proposed that spies be sent forward to explore (Deu 1:22). Moses consented and took twelve men (Deu 1:23), who visited the vale of ’Eshkl and brought back of its fruit, saying the land was good (Deu 1:24 f.). The parallel passage is Numbers 13, for the analysis of which into JE and P see Chapman, Introd. to the Pent. (86 ff.), in this series, and cp. Oxf. Hex. and G. B. Gray in the Int. Crit. Com. To JE are generally assigned Deu 1:17 bc Deu 1:21 a, Deu 1:22-24, Deu 1:26-29: the beginning of this account with the start of the spies from adesh is probably broken off; it is implied in Deu 1:26. As it stands all that JE tells us is that the spies started after Israel had reached the wilderness of Paran, Num 12:16, while adesh was in the wilderness of Sin to the N. of that of Paran. They were to go up by the Negeb, still intervening between them and the Mt of the Amorite, to see the land, its dwellers, their manner of life, and the fruits. Thus they came to ebron where were sons of ‘Ana and brought back from the vale of ’Eshol some fruit to adesh, reporting the land to be good, but the people strong and their cities fenced and great. It is clear that the deuteronomic review is a summary of this account. P’s narrative, Num 13:1-17 a, Num 13:21 b, Num 13:25-26 a differs from JE and D both in its language and in several details of facts for which see below. For full proof of the dependence of D on JE and D’s ignorance of P, see Chapman, I. P. 90 92, 94 f.
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And I said unto you, you are come unto the mountain of the Amorites,…. Which was inhabited by them, and was one of the seven nations the Israelites were to destroy, and possess their land, and which lay on the southern part of the land of Canaan:
which the Lord our God doth give unto us; not the mountain only, but the whole country of that people, and even all the land of Canaan.
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Amorites = descendants of the Nephilim. See App-25.
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the mountain: Deu 1:7, Deu 1:8
Reciprocal: Amo 2:10 – to possess
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1:20 And {n} I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
(n) So that the fault was in themselves, that they did not sooner possess the inheritance promised.