Deuteronomy 1:6 (KJV)

Words Then and Now

spake spoke Still heard today: Thus Spake Zarathustra, the famous opening music of 2001: A Space Odyssey Webster’s 1828 · Speak

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Thou and Ye

ye more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

The words Moses spake to Israel in the plains of Moab, The promise of CanaanMoses spake to the people all the Lord had given him in commandment. Horeb was but eleven days distant from Kadesh-barnea. This was to remind them that their...

Thompson Chains

Divine LeaderSee the chain from Deuteronomy 8:2 · 11 links

Cross References

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
Numbers 10:11–13 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. …
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus 19:1–2 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. …
Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

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Topics

Horeb A range of mountains of which Mount Sinai is the most prominent
Prophets Inspiration of

Timeline

Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness

Places

HorebMountain · also Mount Horeb · Location disputed
Places in Deuteronomy 1 on a map

Bible Dictionary

LordThere are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.
God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...
HorebDesert or mountain of the dried-up ground, a general name for the whole mountain range of which Sinai was one of the summits (Ex 3:1; Ex...

Hebrew and Strong’s

The LORD יְהוָה yhwh יְהֹוָה Proper name
our God אֱלֹהֵינוּ ʾĕlōhênû אֱלֹהִים Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: first person common plural
spake דִּבֶּר dibber דָבַר Verb · piel perfect, third person masculine singular
unto us in Horeb אֵלֵינוּ ʾēlênû Preposition · with suffix: first person common plural בְּחֹרֵב bĕḥōrēb חֹרֵב Proper name · with preposition
saying לֵאמֹר lēʾmōr אָמַר Verb · qal infinitive construct · with preposition
Ye have dwelt לָכֶם lākem Preposition · with suffix: second person masculine plural שֶׁבֶת šebet יָשַׁב Verb · qal infinitive construct
long enough רַב rab רַב Adjective · masculine singular construct
in this mount בָּהָר bāhār הַר Noun · masculine singular · with preposition with the הַזֶּה hazzê Pronoun · with the

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