King James Version
Deuteronomy 1:26 in the King James Version says “Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:”
Deuteronomy 1:26 · KJV
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
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.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. discouraged: Heb. melted
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“Notwithstanding ye would”
H14to breathe after, i.e., (figuratively) to be acquiescent
“not go up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“but rebelled”
H4784to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“against the commandment”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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