Deuteronomy 1:26-40

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁶ “But you were not willing to go up, rebelling against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷ You grumbled in your tents^(A) and said, ‘The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites so they would destroy us, because He hated us. ²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us,^(B) saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.^(C) We also saw the descendants of the Anakim^(D) there.’

²⁹ “So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!^{(E) 30} The Lord your God who goes before you^(F) will fight for you,^(G) just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt. ³¹ And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place. ³² But in spite of this you did not trust the Lord your God, ³³ who went before you on the journey to seek out a place for you to camp. He went in the fire by night and in the cloud by day to guide you on the road you were to travel.

³⁴ “When the Lord heard your^[a] words, He grew angry and swore an oath: ³⁵ ‘None of these men in this evil generation will see the good land I swore to give your fathers,^{(H) 36} except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the Lord completely.’

³⁷ “The Lord was angry with me also because of you and said: ‘You will not enter there either.^{(I) 38} Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit it.^{(J) 39} Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who^[b] don’t know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it. ⁴⁰ But you are to turn back and head for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’^(K)