11 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness , in the Arabah opposite [1]Suph , between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab . 2 It is eleven e days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea . 3 In the fortieth year , on the first day of the eleventh e month , Moses spoke to the children of Israel , according to all that the Lord had commanded him to give to them, 4 after he had [2] defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites , who lived in Heshbon , and Og the king of Bashan , who lived in Ashtaroth [3]and Edrei . 5 Across the Jordan in the land of Moab , Moses undertook to expound this law , saying , 6 "The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb , saying , 'You have [4]stayed long enough at this mountain . 7 'Turn and set your journey , and go to the hill country of the Amorites , and to all their neighbors in the Arabah , in the hill country and in the lowland and in the [5]Negev and by the seacoast e , the land of the Canaanites , and Lebanon , as far as the great river , the river Euphrates . 8 'See , I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers , to Abraham , to Isaac , and to Jacob , to them and their [6]descendants after them.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:1-8
Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:1-8
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Moses spake to the people all the Lord had given him in commandment. Horeb was but eleven days distant from Kadesh-barnea. This was to remind them that their own bad conduct had occasioned their tedious wanderings; that they might the more readily understand the advantages of obedience. They must now go forward. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, he knows when they have been tried long enough. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course, he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement.