Deuteronomy 1 · Verse 26

Deuteronomy 1:26

Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God:
Deuteronomy 1:26, King James Version

Deuteronomy 1:26 in other translations

BSBBut you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
WEBYet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.
ASVYet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God:
YLT‘And ye have not been willing to go up, and ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God,
DARBYBut ye would not go up, and rebelled against the word of Jehovah your God;
BBEBut going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:
WebsterNotwithstanding, ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:

What does Deuteronomy 1:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 1:22-33

22-33. ye came ... and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land--The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the people through unbelief; but Moses, believing them sincere, gave his cordial assent to this measure, and God on being consulted permitted them to follow the suggestion (see on Nu 13:1). The issue proved disastrous to them, only through their own sin and folly.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:19-46

Moses reminds the Israelites of their march from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, through that great and terrible wilderness. He shows how near they were to a happy settlement in Canaan. It will aggravate the eternal ruin of hypocrites, that they were not far from the kingdom of God. As if it were not enough that they were sure of their God before them, they would send men before them. Never any looked into the Holy Land…

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Deuteronomy 1:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808
אֲבִיתֶ֖ם'a.vi.Temyou were willingH14
לַעֲלֹ֑תla.'a.Lotto go upH5927
וַתַּמְר֕וּva.tam.Ruand you rebelled towardH4784
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
פִּ֥יpi[the] mouth ofH6310
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם\׃'e.lo.hei.KhemGod yourH430

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 1:26

  • Numbers 14:1-4

    And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

  • Psalms 106:24-25

    Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.

  • Acts 7:51

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  • Isaiah 63:10

    But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

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Nu 14:1-4; Ps 106:24,25; Isa 63:10; Ac 7:51

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 1:25

    And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.

  • Deuteronomy 1:26

    Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God:

  • Deuteronomy 1:27

    And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

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Deuteronomy 1:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Empero no quisisteis subir, antes fuisteis rebeldes al dicho de Jehová vuestro Dios;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais vous n’avez pas voulu monter, et vous avez été rebelles au commandement de l’ Éternel, votre Dieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Aber ihr wolltet nicht hinaufziehen und waret widerspenstig gegen den Befehl Jehovas, eures Gottes.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et noluistis ascendere, sed increduli ad sermonem Domini Dei nostri,