Deuteronomy 1:2

1:2 Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey ¹  from Horeb ²  to Kadesh Barnea ³  by way of Mount Seir. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 1:20

1:20 Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give ⁵  us.

Deuteronomy 1:24

1:24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, ⁶  which they scouted out.

Deuteronomy 2:15

2:15 Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within ⁷  the camp until they were all gone.

Deuteronomy 2:23

2:23 As for the Avvites ⁸  who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites ⁹  who came from Crete ¹⁰  destroyed them and settled down in their place.)

Deuteronomy 4:48-49

4:48 Their territory extended ¹¹  from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon valley as far as Mount Siyon ¹²  – that is, Hermon – 4:49 including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, ¹³  beneath the watershed ¹⁴  of Pisgah.)

Deuteronomy 7:20

7:20 Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets ¹⁵  among them until the very last ones who hide from you ¹⁶  perish.

Deuteronomy 7:23

7:23 The Lord your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic ¹⁷  until they are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:22

28:22 He ¹⁸  will afflict you with weakness, ¹⁹  fever, inflammation, infection, ²⁰  sword, ²¹  blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 29:11

29:11 your infants, your wives, and the ²²  foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

Deuteronomy 31:24

Anticipation of Disobedience

31:24 When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

Deuteronomy 31:30

31:30 Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

Deuteronomy 34:3

34:3 the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

[1:2]  ¹ sn An eleven-day journey was about 140 mi (233 km).

[1:2]  ² sn Horeb is another name for Sinai. “Horeb” occurs 9 times in the Book of Deuteronomy and “Sinai” only once (33:2). “Sinai” occurs 13 times in the Book of Exodus and “Horeb” only 3 times.

[1:2]  ³ sn Kadesh Barnea. Possibly this refers to àAin Qudeis, about 50 mi (80 km) southwest of Beer Sheba, but more likely to àAin Qudeirat, 5 mi (8 km) NW of àAin Qudeis. See R. Cohen, “Did I Excavate Kadesh-Barnea?” BAR 7 (1981): 20-33.

[1:2]  ⁴ sn Mount Seir is synonymous with Edom. “By way of Mount Seir” refers to the route from Horeb that ended up in Edom Cf. CEV “by way of the Mount Seir Road”; TEV “by way of the hill country of Edom.”

[1:20]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew participle has an imminent future sense here, although many English versions treat it as a present tense (“is giving us,” NAB, NIV, NRSV) or a predictive future (“will give us,” NCV).

[1:24]  ⁹ tn Or “the Wadi Eshcol” (so NAB).

[2:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the middle of.” Although many recent English versions leave this expression untranslated, the point seems to be that these soldiers did not die in battle but “within the camp.”

[2:23]  ¹⁷ sn Avvites. Otherwise unknown, these people were probably also Anakite (or Rephaite) giants who lived in the lower Mediterranean coastal plain until they were expelled by the Caphtorites.

[2:23]  ¹⁸ sn Caphtorites. These peoples are familiar from both the OT (Gen 10:14; 1 Chr 1:12; Jer 47:4; Amos 9:7) and ancient Near Eastern texts (Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, 2:37-38; ANET 138). They originated in Crete (OT “Caphtor”) and are identified as the ancestors of the Philistines (Gen 10:14; Jer 47:4).

[2:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Caphtor”; the modern name of the island of Crete is used in the translation for clarity (cf. NCV, TEV, NLT).

[4:48]  ²¹ tn The words “their territory extended” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. In the Hebrew text vv. 47-49 are all one sentence, but for the sake of English style and readability the translation divides the text into two sentences.

[4:48]  ²² sn Mount Siyon (the Hebrew name is שִׂיאֹן [si’on], not to be confused with Zion [צִיּוֹן, tsiyyon]) is another name for Mount Hermon, also called Sirion and Senir (cf. Deut 3:9).

[4:49]  ²⁵ sn The sea of the Arabah refers to the Dead Sea, also known as the Salt Sea in OT times (cf. Deut 3:17).

[4:49]  ²⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term אַשְׁדֹּת (’ashdot) is unclear. It is usually translated either “slopes” (ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT) or “watershed” (NEB).

[7:20]  ²⁹ tn The meaning of the term translated “hornets” (צִרְעָה, tsir’ah) is debated. Various suggestions are “discouragement” (HALOT 1056-57 s.v.; cf. NEB, TEV, CEV “panic”; NCV “terror”) and “leprosy” (J. H. Tigay, Deuteronomy [JPSTC], 360, n. 33; cf. NRSV “the pestilence”), as well as “hornet” (BDB 864 s.v.; cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT). The latter seems most suitable to the verb שָׁלַח (shalakh, “send”; cf. Exod 23:28; Josh 24:12).

[7:20]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the remnant and those who hide themselves.”

[7:23]  ³³ tn Heb “he will confuse them (with) great confusion.” The verb used here means “shake, stir up” (see Ruth 1:19; 1 Sam 4:5; 1 Kgs 1:45; Ps 55:2); the accompanying cognate noun refers to confusion, unrest, havoc, or panic (1 Sam 5:9, 11; 14:20; 2 Chr 15:5; Prov 15:16; Isa 22:5; Ezek 7:7; 22:5; Amos 3:9; Zech 14:13).

[28:22]  ³⁷ tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

[28:22]  ³⁸ tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).

[28:22]  ³⁹ tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”

[28:22]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[29:11]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “your.”