King James Version

What Does Deuteronomy 1:34 Mean?

And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

Context

32

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,

33

Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

34

And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

35

Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

36

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. wholly: Heb. fulfilled to go after

Commentary

Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(34) **Was wroth, and sware.**—See Psalm 95:11, “I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.”

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.

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