2월 17일: Deuteronomy 1-4

Deuteronomy 1-4

The Message

1These are the sermons Moses preached to all Israel when they were east of the Jordan River in the Arabah Wilderness, opposite Suph, in the vicinity of Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

2It takes eleven days to travel from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea following the Mount Seir route. 

3It was on the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year when Moses addressed the People of Israel, telling them everything GOD had commanded him concerning them. 

4This came after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled from Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who ruled from Ashtaroth in Edrei. 

5It was east of the Jordan in the land of Moab that Moses set out to explain this Revelation. He said： 

6Back at Horeb, GOD, our God, spoke to us： "You've stayed long enough at this mountain. 

7On your way now. Get moving. Head for the Amorite hills, wherever people are living in the Arabah, the mountains, the foothills, the Negev, the seashore—the Canaanite country and the Lebanon all the way to the big river, the Euphrates. 

8Look, I've given you this land. Now go in and take it. It's the land GOD promised to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their children after them." 

9At the time I told you, "I can't do this, can't carry you all by myself. 

10GOD, your God, has multiplied your numbers. Why, look at you—you rival the stars in the sky! 

11And may GOD, the God-of-Your-Fathers, keep it up and multiply you another thousand times, bless you just as he promised. 

12But how can I carry, all by myself, your troubles and burdens and quarrels? 

13So select some wise, understanding, and seasoned men from your tribes, and I will commission them as your leaders." 

14You answered me, "Good! A good solution." 

15So I went ahead and took the top men of your tribes, wise and seasoned, and made them your leaders—leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, officials adequate for each of your tribes. 

16At the same time I gave orders to your judges： "Listen carefully to complaints and accusations between your fellow Israelites. Judge fairly between each person and his fellow or foreigner. 

17Don't play favorites; treat the little and the big alike; listen carefully to each. Don't be impressed by big names. This is God's judgment you're dealing with. Hard cases you can bring to me; I'll deal with them." 

18I issued orders to you at that time regarding everything you would have to deal with. 

19Then we set out from Horeb and headed for the Amorite hill country, going through that huge and frightening wilderness that you've had more than an eyeful of by now—all under the command of GOD, our God—and finally arrived at Kadesh Barnea. 

20There I told you, "You've made it to the Amorite hill country that GOD, our God, is giving us. 

21Look, GOD, your God, has placed this land as a gift before you. Go ahead and take it now. GOD, the God-of-Your-Fathers, promised it to you. Don't be afraid. Don't lose heart." 

22But then you all came to me and said, "Let's send some men on ahead to scout out the land for us and bring back a report on the best route to take and the kinds of towns we can expect to find." 

23That seemed like a good idea to me, so I picked twelve men, one from each tribe. 

24They set out, climbing through the hills. They came to the Eshcol Valley and looked it over. 

25They took samples of the produce of the land and brought them back to us, saying, "It's a good land that GOD, our God, is giving us!" 

26But then you weren't willing to go up. You rebelled against GOD, your God's plain word. 

27You complained in your tents： "GOD hates us. He hauled us out of Egypt in order to dump us among the Amorites—a death sentence for sure! 

28How can we go up? We're trapped in a dead end. Our brothers took all the wind out of our sails, telling us, 'The people are bigger and stronger than we are; their cities are huge, their defenses massive—we even saw Anakite giants there!'" 

29I tried to relieve your fears： "Don't be terrified of them. 

30GOD, your God, is leading the way; he's fighting for you. You saw with your own eyes what he did for you in Egypt; 

31you saw what he did in the wilderness, how GOD, your God, carried you as a father carries his child, carried you the whole way until you arrived here. 

32But now that you're here, you won't trust GOD, your God— 

33this same GOD who goes ahead of you in your travels to scout out a place to pitch camp, a fire by night and a cloud by day to show you the way to go." 

34When GOD heard what you said, he exploded in anger. He swore, 

35"Not a single person of this evil generation is going to get so much as a look at the good land that I promised to give to your parents. Not one— 

36except for Caleb son of Jephunneh. He'll see it. I'll give him and his descendants the land he walked on because he was all for following GOD, heart and soul." 

37But I also got it. Because of you GOD's anger spilled over onto me. He said, "You aren't getting in either. 

38Your assistant, Joshua son of Nun, will go in. Build up his courage. He's the one who will claim the inheritance for Israel. 

39And your babies of whom you said, 'They'll be grabbed for plunder,' and all these little kids who right now don't even know right from wrong—they'll get in. I'll give it to them. Yes, they'll be the new owners. 

40But not you. Turn around and head back into the wilderness following the route to the Red Sea." 

41You spoke up, "We've sinned against GOD. We'll go up and fight, following all the orders that GOD, our God, has commanded." You took your weapons and dressed for battle—you thought it would be so easy going into those hills! 

42But GOD told me, "Tell them, 'Don't do it; don't go up to fight—I'm not with you in this. Your enemies will waste you.'" 

43I told you but you wouldn't listen. You rebelled at the plain word of GOD. You threw out your chests and strutted into the hills. 

44And those Amorites, who had lived in those hills all their lives, swarmed all over you like a hive of bees, chasing you from Seir all the way to Hormah, a stinging defeat. 

45You came back and wept in the presence of GOD, but he didn't pay a bit of attention to you; GOD didn't give you the time of day. 

46You stayed there in Kadesh a long time, about as long as you had stayed there earlier. 

2Then we turned around and went back into the wilderness following the route to the Red Sea, as GOD had instructed me. We worked our way in and around the hills of Seir for a long, long time.

2Then GOD said, 

3"You've been going around in circles in these hills long enough; go north. 

4Command the people, You're about to cut through the land belonging to your relatives, the People of Esau who settled in Seir. They are terrified of you, but restrain yourselves. 

5Don't try and start a fight. I am not giving you so much as a square inch of their land. I've already given all the hill country of Seir to Esau—he owns it all. 

6Pay them up front for any food or water you get from them." 

7GOD, your God, has blessed you in everything you have done. He has guarded you in your travels through this immense wilderness. For forty years now, GOD, your God, has been right here with you. You haven't lacked one thing. 

8So we detoured around our brothers, the People of Esau who live in Seir, avoiding the Arabah Road that comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber; instead we used the road through the Wilderness of Moab. 

9GOD told me, "And don't try to pick a fight with the Moabites. I am not giving you any of their land. I've given ownership of Ar to the People of Lot." 

10The Emites (Monsters) used to live there—mobs of hulking giants, like Anakites. 

11Along with the Anakites they were lumped in with the Rephaites (Ghosts) but in Moab they were called Emites. 

12Horites also used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau took over and destroyed them, the same as Israel did in the land GOD gave them to possess. 

13GOD said, "It's time now to cross the Brook Zered." So we crossed the Brook Zered. 

14It took us thirty-eight years to get from Kadesh Barnea to the Brook Zered. That's how long it took for the entire generation of soldiers from the camp to die off, as GOD had sworn they would. 

15GOD was relentless against them until the last one was gone from the camp. 

16When the last of these soldiers had died, 

17GOD said to me, 

18"This is the day you cut across the territory of Moab, at Ar. 

19When you approach the People of Ammon, don't try and pick a fight with them because I'm not giving you any of the land of the People of Ammon for yourselves—I've already given it to the People of Lot." 

20It is also considered to have once been the land of the Rephaites. Rephaites lived there long ago—the Ammonites called them Zamzummites (Barbarians)— 

21huge mobs of them, giants like the Anakites. GOD destroyed them and the Ammonites moved in and took over. 

22It was the same with the People of Esau who live in Seir—GOD got rid of the Horites who lived there earlier and they moved in and took over, as you can see. 

23Regarding the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites who came from Caphtor (Crete) wiped them out and moved in. 

24"On your feet now. Get started. Cross the Brook Arnon. Look： Here's Sihon the Amorite king of Heshbon and his land. I'm handing it over to you—it's all yours. Go ahead take it. Go to war with him. 

25Before the day is out, I'll make sure that all the people around here are thoroughly terrified. Rumors of you are going to spread like wildfire; they'll totally panic." 

26From the Wilderness of Kedemoth, I sent messengers to Sihon, king of Heshbon. They carried a friendly message： 

27"Let me cross through your land on the highway. I'll stay right on the highway; I won't trespass right or left. 

28I'll pay you for any food or water we might need. Let me walk through. 

29"The People of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did this, helping me on my way until I can cross the Jordan and enter the land that GOD, our God, is giving us." 

30But Sihon king of Heshbon wouldn't let us cross his land. GOD, your God, turned his spirit mean and his heart hard so he could hand him over to you, as you can see that he has done. 

31Then GOD said to me, "Look, I've got the ball rolling—Sihon and his land are soon yours. Go ahead. Take it. It's practically yours!" 

32So Sihon and his entire army confronted us in battle at Jahaz. 

33GOD handed him, his sons, and his entire army over to us and we utterly crushed them. 

34While we were at it we captured all his towns and totally destroyed them, a holy destruction—men, women, and children. No survivors. 

35We took the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured and carried them off for ourselves. 

36From Aroer on the edge of the Brook Arnon and the town in the gorge, as far as Gilead, not a single town proved too much for us; GOD, our God, gave every last one of them to us. 

37The only land you didn't take, obeying GOD's command, was the land of the People of Ammon, the land along the Jabbok and around the cities in the hills. 

3Then we turned north and took the road to Bashan. Og king of Bashan, he and all his people, came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

2GOD said to me, "Don't be afraid of him; I'm turning him over to you, along with his whole army and his land. Treat him the way you treated Sihon king of the Amorites who ruled from Heshbon." 

3So GOD, our God, also handed Og king of Bashan over to us—Og and all his people—and we utterly crushed them. Again, no survivors. 

4At the same time we took all his cities. There wasn't one of the sixty cities that we didn't take—the whole region of Argob, Og's kingdom in Bashan. 

5All these cities were fortress cities with high walls and barred gates. There were also numerous unwalled villages. 

6We totally destroyed them—a holy destruction. It was the same treatment we gave to Sihon king of Heshbon, a holy destruction of every city, man, woman, and child. 

7But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we took for ourselves. 

8Throughout that time we took the land from under the control of the two kings of the Amorites who ruled the country east of the Jordan, all the way from the Brook Arnon to Mount Hermon. 

9(Sirion is the name given Hermon by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.) 

10We took all the towns of the plateau, everything in Gilead, everything in Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, the border towns of Bashan, Og's kingdom. 

11Og king of Bashan was the last remaining Rephaite. His bed, made of iron, was over thirteen feet long and six wide. You can still see it on display in Rabbah of the People of Ammon. 

12Of the land that we possessed at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer along the Brook Arnon and half the hill country of Gilead with its towns. 

13I gave the half-tribe of Manasseh the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, Og's kingdom—all the region of Argob, which takes in all of Bashan. This used to be known as the Land of the Rephaites. 

14Jair, a son of Manasseh, got the region of Argob to the borders of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He named the Bashan villages after himself, Havvoth Jair (Jair's Tent-Villages). They're still called that. 

15I gave Gilead to Makir. 

16I gave the Reubenites and Gadites the land from Gilead down to the Brook Arnon, whose middle was the boundary, and as far as the Jabbok River, the boundary line of the People of Ammon. 

17The western boundary was the Jordan River in the Arabah all the way from the Kinnereth (the Sea of Galilee) to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea or Dead Sea) at the base of the slopes of Mount Pisgah on the east. 

18I commanded you at that time, "GOD, your God, has given you this land to possess. Your men, fit and armed for the fight, are to cross the river in advance of their brothers, the People of Israel. 

19Only your wives, children, and livestock (I know you have much livestock) may go ahead and settle down in the towns I have already given you 

20until GOD secures living space for your brothers as he has for you and they have taken possession of the country west of the Jordan that GOD, your God, is giving them. After that, each man may return to the land I've given you here." 

21I commanded Joshua at that time, "You've seen with your own two eyes everything GOD, your God, has done to these two kings. GOD is going to do the same thing to all the kingdoms over there across the river where you're headed. 

22Don't be afraid of them. GOD, your God, —he's fighting for you." 

23At that same time, I begged GOD： 

24"GOD, my Master, you let me in on the beginnings, you let me see your greatness, you let me see your might—what god in Heaven or Earth can do anything like what you've done! 

25Please, let me in also on the endings, let me cross the river and see the good land over the Jordan, the lush hills, the Lebanon mountains." 

26But GOD was still angry with me because of you. He wouldn't listen. He said, "Enough of that. Not another word from you on this. 

27Climb to the top of Mount Pisgah and look around： look west, north, south, east. Take in the land with your own eyes. Take a good look because you're not going to cross this Jordan. 

28"Then command Joshua： Give him courage. Give him strength. Single-handed he will lead this people across the river. Single-handed he'll cause them to inherit the land at which you can only look." 

29That's why we have stayed in this valley near Beth Peor. 

4Now listen, Israel, listen carefully to the rules and regulations that I am teaching you to follow so that you may live and enter and take possession of the land that GOD, the God-of-Your-Fathers, is giving to you.

2Don't add a word to what I command you, and don't remove a word from it. Keep the commands of GOD, your God, that I am commanding you. 

3You saw with your own eyes what GOD did at Baal Peor, how GOD destroyed from among you every man who joined in the Baal Peor orgies. 

4But you, the ones who held tight to GOD, your God, are alive and well, every one of you, today. 

5Pay attention： I'm teaching you the rules and regulations that GOD commanded me, so that you may live by them in the land you are entering to take up ownership. 

6Keep them. Practice them. You'll become wise and understanding. When people hear and see what's going on, they'll say, "What a great nation! So wise, so understanding! We've never seen anything like it." 

7Yes. What other great nation has gods that are intimate with them the way GOD, our God, is with us, always ready to listen to us? 

8And what other great nation has rules and regulations as good and fair as this Revelation that I'm setting before you today? 

9Just make sure you stay alert. Keep close watch over yourselves. Don't forget anything of what you've seen. Don't let your heart wander off. Stay vigilant as long as you live. Teach what you've seen and heard to your children and grandchildren. 

10That day when you stood before GOD, your God, at Horeb, GOD said to me, "Assemble the people in my presence to listen to my words so that they will learn to fear me in holy fear for as long as they live on the land, and then they will teach these same words to their children." 

11You gathered. You stood in the shadow of the mountain. The mountain was ablaze with fire, blazing high into the very heart of Heaven. You stood in deep darkness and thick clouds. 

12GOD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but you saw nothing—no form, only a voice. 

13He announced his covenant, the Ten Words, by which he commanded you to live. Then he wrote them down on two slabs of stone. 

14And GOD commanded me at that time to teach you the rules and regulations that you are to live by in the land which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess. 

15You saw no form on the day GOD spoke to you at Horeb from out of the fire. Remember that. Carefully guard yourselves 

16so that you don't turn corrupt and make a form, carving a figure 

17that looks male or female, or looks like a prowling animal or a flying bird 

18or a slithering snake or a fish in a stream. 

19And also carefully guard yourselves so that you don't look up into the skies and see the sun and moon and stars, all the constellations of the skies, and be seduced into worshiping and serving them. GOD set them out for everybody's benefit, everywhere. 

20But you—GOD took you right out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to become the people of his inheritance—and that's what you are this very day. 

21But GOD was angry with me because of you and the things you said. He swore that I'd never cross the Jordan, never get to enter the good land that GOD, your God, is giving you as an inheritance. 

22This means that I am going to die here. I'm not crossing the Jordan. But you will cross; you'll possess the good land. 

23So stay alert. Don't for a minute forget the covenant which GOD, your God, made with you. And don't take up with any carved images, no forms of any kind—GOD, your God, issued clear commands on that. 

24GOD, your God, is not to be trifled with—he's a consuming fire, a jealous God. 

25When the time comes that you have children and grandchildren, put on years, and start taking things for granted, if you then become corrupt and make any carved images, no matter what their form, by doing what is sheer evil in GOD's eyes and provoking his anger— 

26I can tell you right now, with Heaven and Earth as witnesses, that it will be all over for you. You'll be kicked off the land that you're about to cross over the Jordan to possess. Believe me, you'll have a very short stay there. You'll be ruined, completely ruined. 

27GOD will scatter you far and wide; a few of you will survive here and there in the nations where GOD will drive you. 

28There you can worship your homemade gods to your hearts' content, your wonderful gods of wood and stone that can't see or hear or eat or smell. 

29But even there, if you seek GOD, your God, you'll be able to find him if you're serious, looking for him with your whole heart and soul. 

30When troubles come and all these awful things happen to you, in future days you will come back to GOD, your God, and listen obediently to what he says. 

31GOD, your God, is above all a compassionate God. In the end he will not abandon you, he won't bring you to ruin, he won't forget the covenant with your ancestors which he swore to them. 

32Ask questions. Find out what has been going on all these years before you were born. From the day God created man and woman on this Earth, and from the horizon in the east to the horizon in the west—as far back as you can imagine and as far away as you can imagine—has as great a thing as this ever happened? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? 

33Has a people ever heard, as you did, a god speaking out of the middle of the fire and lived to tell the story? 

34Or has a god ever tried to select for himself a nation from within a nation using trials, miracles, and war, putting his strong hand in, reaching his long arm out, a spectacle awesome and staggering, the way GOD, your God, did it for you in Egypt while you stood right there and watched? 

35You were shown all this so that you would know that GOD is, well, God. He's the only God there is. He's it. 

36He made it possible for you to hear his voice out of Heaven to discipline you. Down on Earth, he showed you the big fire and again you heard his words, this time out of the fire. 

37He loved your ancestors and chose to work with their children. He personally and powerfully brought you out of Egypt 

38in order to displace bigger and stronger and older nations with you, bringing you out and turning their land over to you as an inheritance. And now it's happening. This very day. 

39Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now： GOD is in Heaven above; GOD is on Earth below. He's the only God there is. 

40Obediently live by his rules and commands which I'm giving you today so that you'll live well and your children after you—oh, you'll live a long time in the land that GOD, your God, is giving you. 

41Then Moses set aside three towns in the country on the east side of the Jordan 

42to which someone who had unintentionally killed a person could flee and find refuge. If the murder was unintentional and there was no history of bad blood, the murderer could flee to one of these cities and save his life： 

43Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites. 

44This is the Revelation that Moses presented to the People of Israel. 

45These are the testimonies, the rules and regulations Moses spoke to the People of Israel after their exodus from Egypt 

46and arrival on the east side of the Jordan in the valley near Beth Peor. It was the country of Sihon king of the Amorites who ruled from Heshbon. Moses and the People of Israel fought and beat him after they left Egypt 

47and took his land. They also took the land of Og king of Bashan. The two Amorite kings held the country on the east of the Jordan 

48from Aroer on the bank of the Brook Arnon as far north as Mount Siyon, that is, Mount Hermon, 

49all the Arabah plain east of the Jordan, and as far south as the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) beneath the slopes of Mount Pisgah. 

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