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Deuteronomy 1:27

Deuteronomy 1:27

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Ye murmured in your tents; an allusion to what is recorded in , etc. Moses addresses the people then with him as if they had been the parties who so rebelled and murmured at Kadesh, though all that generation, except himself, Joshua, and Caleb, had perished.

This he does, not merely because of the solidarity of the nation, but also that he might suggest to them the possibility that the same evil spirit might still lurk among them, and consequently the need of being on their guard against allowing it to get scope.

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