Deuteronomy 1:21-22

1:21 Look, he ¹  has placed the land in front of you! ²  Go up, take possession of it, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!” 1:22 So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”

Deuteronomy 1:28

1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ³  by describing people who are more numerous ⁴  and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ⁵  itself! Moreover, they said they saw ⁶  Anakites ⁷  there.”

Deuteronomy 5:5

5:5 (I was standing between the Lord and you at that time to reveal to you the message ⁸  of the Lord, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain.) He said:

Deuteronomy 9:9

9:9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there ⁹  forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

Deuteronomy 9:23

9:23 And when he ¹⁰  sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God ¹¹  and would neither believe nor obey him.

Deuteronomy 17:8

Appeal to a Higher Court

17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ¹²  legal claim, ¹³  or assault ¹⁴  – matters of controversy in your villages ¹⁵  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ¹⁶ 

Deuteronomy 20:1

Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry ¹⁷  and troops ¹⁸  who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

Deuteronomy 25:7

25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she ¹⁹  must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”

Deuteronomy 29:23

29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. ²⁰ 

Deuteronomy 32:49

32:49 “Go up to this Abarim ²¹  hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho ²² ) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.

Deuteronomy 34:1

The Death of Moses

34:1 Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. ²³  The Lord showed him the whole land – Gilead to Dan,

¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun (“he”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons, to avoid repetition.

² tn Or “has given you the land” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

³ tn Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”

⁴ tn Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).

⁵ tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

⁶ tn Heb “we have seen.”

⁷ tn Heb “the sons of the Anakim.”

⁵ tn Or “word” (so KJV, NASB, NIV); NRSV “words.”

⁷ tn Heb “in the mountain.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.

¹¹ tn Heb “between blood and blood.”

¹² tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

¹³ tn Heb “between blow and blow.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “gates.”

¹⁵ tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.

¹³ tn Heb “horse and chariot.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “people.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister in law.” In the second instance the pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation to avoid redundancy.

¹⁷ tn Heb “the anger and the wrath.” This construction is a hendiadys intended to intensify the emotion.

¹⁹ sn Abarim. This refers to the high plateau region of the Transjordan, the highest elevation of which is Mount Pisgah (or Nebo; cf. Deut 34:1). See also the note on the name “Pisgah” in Deut 3:17.

²⁰ map For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

²¹ sn For the geography involved, see note on the term “Pisgah” in Deut 3:17.