Deuteronomy 1 Scofield
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1:2 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
“eleven days”
Prolonged by one act of unbelief to forty years. (See Scofield "Num 14:23").
1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
“eleventh”
i.e. February.
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Introduction to Deuteronomy
DEUTERONOMY consists of the parting counsels of Moses delivered to Israel in view of the impending entrance upon their covenanted possession. It contains a summary of the wilderness wanderings of Israel, which is important as unfolding the moral judgement of God upon those events; repeats the Decalogue to a generation which had grown up in the wilderness; gives needed instruction as the conduct of Israel in the land, and contains the Palestinian Covenant (Deut 30:1–9). The book breathes the sternness of the Law. Key- words, "Thou shalt"; key-verses, Deut 11:26–28.
It is important to note that, while the land of promise was unconditionally given Abraham and to his seed in the Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 13:15; Gen 15:7), it was under the conditional Palestinian Covenant (Deut 28:1 to Deut 30:9) that Israel entered the land under Joshua. Utterly violating the conditions of that covenant, the nation was first disrupted (1 Kings 12) and then cast out of the land (2 Kgs 17:1–18; 2 Kgs 24:1 to 2 Kgs 25:11). But the same covenant unconditionally promises a national restoration of Israel which is yet to be fulfilled (See Scofield "Deut 15:18").
DEUTERONOMY is in seven divisions:
1. Summary of the history of Israel in the wilderness, Deut 1:1 to Deut 3:29
2. A restatement of the Law, with warnings and exhortations, Deut 4:1–11:32,
3. Instructions, Warnings, and Predictions, Deut 12:1 to Deut 27:26,
4. The great closing prophecies summarizing the history of Israel to the second coming of Christ, and containing the Palestinian Covenant, Deut 28:1 to Deut 30:20,
5. Last counsels to Priests, Levites, and to Joshua, Deuteronomy 31,
6. The Song of Moses and his parting blessings, 32,33, The Death of Moses, Deuteronomy 34.
The time covered by this retrospect is approximately forty years.