Q&A for Deuteronomy 1 | Understand Your Bible

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Question/Answer 1

Question 1

1. How does God describe the land he is encouraging them to possess?

Answer 1

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.’

Question/Answer 2

Question 2

2. What did the people want to do before taking possession of the land?

Answer 2

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.”

Question/Answer 3

Question 3

3. What was the reaction of the people to the spies report?

Answer 3

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!’ ”