O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds? I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those...

This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you. (Deuteronomy 2:25) As Moses continued retelling the story of their journey, he...

So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had...

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing. (Deuteronomy 2:7) In the very first part of Moses' discourse in...

Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against the Lord; we will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us." And when everyone of you had girded on his weapons of war, you were ready to go up into the mountain. (Deuteronomy 1:41) As Moses...

Your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. (Deuteronomy 1:39) Certainly, it is natural for parents to be concerned about...

Your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. (Deuteronomy 1:39) Moses reminded them that, when Israel embraced the spies' evil...

The Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place. (Deuteronomy 1:31) There is a rabbinic adage based on this passage that says, “A loving father carries his son when he is too young or too weak to make...

Then I said to you, "Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes." (Deuteronomy 1:29-30) Once again, I think it is important to remember that the words...

Where can we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our hearts. The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there. (Deuteronomy 1:28) It is both compelling and sad to think that...

Nevertheless you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; and you complained in your tents, and said, “Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy...

The plan pleased me well; so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. And they departed and went up into the mountains, and came to the Valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. (Deuteronomy 1:23-23) Many have always assumed that God is the One who initiated the...