7 Resume your journey, and go into the hill country of the Amorites as well as into the neighboring regions-the Arabah, the hill country, the Shephelah, the Negeb, and the seacoast-the land of the Canaanites and the Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:7
Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:1-8
(Read Deuteronomy 1:1-8)
Moses spake to the people all the Lord had given him in commandment. Horeb was but eleven days distant from Kadesh-barnea. This was to remind them that their own bad conduct had occasioned their tedious wanderings; that they might the more readily understand the advantages of obedience. They must now go forward. Though God brings his people into trouble and affliction, he knows when they have been tried long enough. When God commands us to go forward in our Christian course, he sets the heavenly Canaan before us for our encouragement.