Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 1:27
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
27. and ye murmured ] Heb. ragan, not elsewhere in Pent. P uses a different verb.
in your tents ] Transposing two consonants Geiger reads against your God. This change is unnecessary. Discontent with a report, originally suggested by the people themselves, and discontent that shaped itself (according to JE) to the demand for another leader, would at first be uttered in private.
Because the Lord hated us ] To this extreme of unbelief and ingratitude were the people driven by the report of a few among themselves, in spite of their long experience of God’s leading. The passage is eloquent of the fickleness with which a people will suffer the lessons of its past facts of Providence it has proved and lived upon to be overthrown by the opinion of a few ‘experts’ as to a still untried situation! To which the answer is memorable Be the facts as the ‘experts’ assert, do ye try the situation and prove that God will be with you there as He has been with you before.
to deliver us into the hand of ] A phrase frequent in D: 9 times, + 10 in deuteronomic passages in Jos., against 5 times in JE.
the Amorites ] See on Deu 1:7.
to destroy us ] Another phrase so characteristic of D that in its active and pass. forms it occurs 28 times in the Bk + 5 in deuteronomic passages in Jos. against 4 or 5 times in all the rest of the Hexateuch.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Because the Lord hated us, and therefore designed to destroy us.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And ye murmured in your tents,…. Not in a private manner; for though the murmurs began there, they having wept all night after the report of the spies; yet it became general and public, and they gathered together in a body, and openly expressed their murmurs against Moses and Aaron, Nu 14:1,
and said, because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt; a strange expression indeed! when it was such a plain amazing instance of his love to them, as could not but be seen by them; being done in such a remarkable and extraordinary manner, by inflicting judgments on their enemies in a miraculous way, giving them favour in their eyes, to lend them their clothes and jewels, and bringing them out with such an high hand, openly and publicly in the sight of them, where they had been in the most wretched slavery for many years; yet this is interpreted an hatred of them, and as done with an ill design upon them, as follows:
to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us; which now, under the power of their fears and unbelief, they thought would be quickly their case; see De 4:37.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
27. And ye murmured in your tents. Elsewhere he says that they also wept; here he only speaks of their murmuring, which better suited his reproof. He then reminds them how malignant had been their ingratitude and perversity in upbraiding God on account of the special blessing which He had conferred upon them, as if He had done them a grievous injury. He could not have afforded them a more manifest proof of His paternal love towards them than by their deliverance. Most iniquitous, therefore, is their mode of repaying Him, viz., by complaining that they had been cruelly brought forth to die, and by construing into hatred His exceeding great love. It is clear from the next verse that, although Moses does not relate the details in their proper order, there is still no contradiction in his words. A little before, he had seemed to give unqualified praise to the spies, as if they had performed their office honestly and faithfully, but now, from the language of the people, he shows that they were the authors of the revolt, inasmuch as they rendered inert, by the terror they inspired, those whom they ought to have encouraged.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(27) Because the Lord hated us.A most astounding commentary on the events of the exodus up to that date. It is a stronger expression than any recorded, even in Num. 14:3.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
27. Ye murmured in your tents It is true that the great majority of the murmurers had died since that time; but Moses speaks to the nation as still containing the elements of unbelief, ingratitude, and disloyalty. These discourses abound in reproofs and warnings to the generations then existing and the generations to come, based on the sins of those who left their bones in the wilderness.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Ver. 27. Because the Lord hated us One cannot conceive a greater degree of corruption, than that which could accuse the great and good God in such a manner; and which could suppose him to have done that from sentiments of hatred, which proceeded only from a principle of love. See chap. Deu 4:37 Deu 7:8.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Deu 1:27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Ver. 27. Because the Lord hated us. ] A gross mistake. Why should it then so greatly grieve us. that our good intentions are so much misconstrued? That is here complained of, as an argument of God’s hatred, that he intended for an instance of his love. Deu 4:37 ; Deu 7:8 In quo dilexisti nos? “wherein hast thou loved us?” said those malcontents in Malachi, Mal 1:2 that cast the helve after the hatchet, as the proverb is, and like children, because they might not have what they would, grew sullen, and would have nothing.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
murmured. Hebrew. ragan, to rebel. Only here, Psa 106:25, and Isa 2:9, Isa 2:24.
Amorites. The Severus codex reads “the Amorite” (singular) See App-34.
destroy = exterminate. Hebrew. shamad.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
The Lord hated us: Deu 9:28, Exo 16:3, Exo 16:8, Num 14:3, Num 21:5, Mat 25:24, Luk 19:21
Reciprocal: Num 14:2 – murmured Psa 106:25 – murmured Mar 14:5 – And they
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 1:27. Because the Lord hated us This shows what dishonourable and unworthy thoughts they had entertained of God, to imagine him capable of being actuated by hatred to his own creatures. Their sins, indeed, he could not but view with hatred; just as every good and wise parent must dislike all evil dispositions and practices in his children: but God, infinitely good, can no more hate any thing that he has made, than a tender mother can be hardened against her sucking child.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1:27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD {q} hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
(q) Such was the Jews unthankfulness, that they counted God’s special love, hatred.