Introduction
The book of Deuteronomy retells the teachings and events of the books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.
Questions
1. How does God describe the land he is encouraging them to possess?
v 8 Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob—to give to them and to their offspring after them.’
2. What did the people want to do before taking possession of the land?
v 22 You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
3. What was the reaction of the people to the spies report?
v 27 and 28 You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”
Summary Points
- v 1 to 18 Moses remembers events at Mount Horeb (Sinai), 40 years earlier
- v 19 to 25 The people travelled from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea. Moses sent out 12 men to spy out the land and he reminded the people of the evidence the twelve spies brought back of the fertility of the land
- v 26 to 33 However most of the spies discouraged the people and caused them to lack faith that they could overcome the giants there
- v 34 to 40 Moses tells them that God said only the two faithful spies would be allowed to enter the land. The rest of their generation would not enter, but their children would posess the land
v 41 to 46 Moses reminds them of their futile attempt to attack the Amorites when God had told them he was no longer with them