Deuteronomy 1:29

29 I tried to relieve your fears: "Don't be terrified of them.

Deuteronomy 1:29 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:29

Then I said unto you, dread not, neither be afraid of them.
] With such like words he had exhorted and encouraged them before the spies were sent, and he still uses the same, or stronger terms, notwithstanding the report that had been made of the gigantic stature and walled cities of the Canaanites. This speech of Moses, which is continued in the two following verses, is not recorded in ( Numbers 14:5 ) , it is only there said, that Moses and Aaron fell on their faces, but no account is given of what was said by either of them.

Deuteronomy 1:29 In-Context

27 You complained in your tents: "God hates us. He hauled us out of Egypt in order to dump us among the Amorites - a death sentence for sure!

28 How can we go up? We're trapped in a dead end. Our brothers took all the wind out of our sails, telling us, 'The people are bigger and stronger than we are; their cities are huge, their defenses massive - we even saw Anakite giants there!'"

29 I tried to relieve your fears: "Don't be terrified of them.

30 God, your God, is leading the way; he's fighting for you. You saw with your own eyes what he did for you in Egypt;

31 you saw what he did in the wilderness, how God, your God, carried you as a father carries his child, carried you the whole way until you arrived here.