Deuteronomy 1 · Verse 34

Deuteronomy 1:34

And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Deuteronomy 1:34, King James Version

Deuteronomy 1:34 in other translations

BSBWhen the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
WEBThe LORD heard the voice of your words and was angry, and swore, saying,
ASVAnd Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
YLT‘And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, and is wroth, and sweareth, saying,
DARBYAnd Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,
BBEAnd the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,
WebsterAnd the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,

What does Deuteronomy 1:34 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 1:34-36
34-36. the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth--In consequence of this aggravated offense (unbelief followed by open rebellion), the Israelites were doomed, in the righteous judgment of God, to a life of wandering in that dreary wilderness till the whole adult generation had disappeared by death. The only exceptions mentioned are Caleb and Joshua, who was to be Moses' successor.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 34 The Lord - was wroth - That is, his justice was incensed, and he evidenced his displeasure against you; and he could not have been a just God if he had not done so.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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 1:34 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.

וַיִּשְׁמַ֥עvai.yish.Ma'and he heardH8085
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
ק֣וֹלKol[the] sound ofH6963
דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑םdiv.rei.Khemwords yourH1697
וַיִּקְצֹ֖ףvai.yik.Tzofand he was angryH7107
וַיִּשָּׁבַ֥עvai.yi.sha.Va'and he swore an oathH7650
לֵאמֹֽר\׃le.Mor<to> sayingH559

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

Cross references for Deuteronomy 1:34

  • Numbers 14:22-30

    Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. …

  • Hebrews 3:8-11

    Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)

  • Deuteronomy 2:14-15

    And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

  • Ezekiel 20:15

    Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

  • Numbers 32:8-13

    Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land. For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them. And the Lord’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying, Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: …

  • Psalms 95:11

    Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
and sware.
2:14,15; Nu 14:22-30; 32:8-13; Ps 95:11; Eze 20:15; Heb 3:8-11

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 1:33

    Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

  • Deuteronomy 1:34

    And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

  • Deuteronomy 1:35

    Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

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Deuteronomy 1:34 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y oyó Jehová la voz de vuestras palabras, y enojóse, y juró diciendo:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et l’ Éternel entendit la voix de vos paroles et fut courroucé, et jura, disant:
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Jehova hörte die Stimme eurer Reden und ward zornig und schwur und sprach:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Cumque audisset Dominus vocem sermonum vestrorum, iratus juravit, et ait: