Deuteronomy 1:37

37 The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

Deuteronomy 1:37 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:37

Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes
Not at the same time, though, as some think, at the same place, near thirty eight years afterwards, they provoking him to speak unadvisedly with his lips; see ( Numbers 20:10-12 ) ( Psalms 106:32 Psalms 106:33 ) ,

saying, thou shalt not go in thither:
into the land of Canaan; and though he greatly importuned it, he could not prevail; see ( Deuteronomy 3:25-27 ) .

Deuteronomy 1:37 In-Context

35 “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,

36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”

37 The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

38 Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.

39 And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.