Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
At Horeb the command was to turn, leave the mountain, and take the journey toward the promised land, whose extent is laid out from the hill country of the Amorites and all the places near it — the plain, the hills, the valley, the south, and the seacoast — to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river Euphrates. The land thus described was set before Israel to enter and possess as the inheritance sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, and to their descendants after them. The verse belongs to the remembered history of Israel's experiences and instruction through Moses, to be recalled together with both failures and victories.
The promise of the land was conditional upon obedience to God's law, and all God's promises rest upon condition of obedience. That condition explains why the adult men of the army that came out of Egypt were refused entrance into the promised land, because they disobeyed. The verse is part of the Lord's words written for admonition upon those on whom the ends of the world have come. It is to be read together with all of chapter 1 and with the whole of chapters 7 and 8.
The verse requires following divine guidance fully, and not following only as far as agrees with human judgment and then clinging to one's own ideas. It forbids living to please self instead of fully following the Lord. Everything is to be tested by the question whether it is the Lord's will, viewed in the light of Christ's example of self-denial and self-sacrifice. God's people are to be molded after His likeness unto perfection of character, rather than after feeble human standards, and are to learn, appreciate, and obey His voice.