Deu 1:6-8 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 6 Ye have dwelt long enough, etc. - They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, , ; and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year.

Deuteronomy 1:6-8

Verse 6

Ye have dwelt long enough, etc. - They came to Sinai in the third month after their departure from Egypt, Exo 19:1, Exo 19:2; and left it the twentieth of the second month of the second year, so it appears they had continued there nearly a whole year. Verse 7

Go to the mount of the Amorites - On the south of the land of Canaan, towards the Dead Sea.

Land of the Canaanites - That is, Phoenicia, the country of Sidon, and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea from the country of the Philistines to Mount Libanus. The Canaanites and Phoenicians are often confounded.

The river Euphrates - Thus Moses fixes the bounds of the land, to which on all quarters the territories of the Israelites might be extended, should the land of Canaan, properly so called, be found insufficient for them. Their South border might extend to the mount of the Amorites; their West to the borders of the Mediterranean Sea; their North to Lebanon; and their East border to the river Euphrates: and to this extent Solomon reigned; see 1Kgs 4:21. So that in his time, at least, the promise to Abraham was literally fulfilled; see below.