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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:1

Phasga was the highest part of Nebo, which was a summit of the Abarim mountains. --- Dan. All the conquered countries east of the Jordan, as far as the source of that river, chap. xxxiii. 22., and Genesis xiv. 14. (Calmet)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXXIV _Moses goes up Mount_ Nebo _to the top of_ Pisgah, _and God shews him_ _the whole extent of the land which he promised to give to the_ _descendants of Abraham_, 1-4. _There Moses die...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DAN - This can hardly be the Dan (Dan-Laish) of Judges 18:27 ff, which was not in Gilead. It is probably a town of this name which stood in the north of Peraea; perhaps the same as Dan-jaan, 2 Samuel...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE DEATH OF MOSES CHAPTER 34 _ 1. The death and burial of Moses (Deuteronomy 34:1)_ 2. The mourning of the people (Deuteronomy 34:8) 3. The conclusion of the book (Deuteronomy 34

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEUTERONOMY 34. THE DEATH OF MOSES ON MOUNT PISGAH ( JE). (Deuteronomy 34:1_ B _- Deuteronomy 34:6.) Deuteronomy 34:1. over against: lit. in front, _i.e._ E. Render, the land, t

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ Compare App-4. SHEWED HIM. caused him to see. Compare Matthew 4:8; Luke 4:5. DAN. Compare Genesis 14:14. Not...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Moses went up_ As commanded, Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 32:49. _plains of Moab_ Heb. _-arbôth Mo'ab_, the parts of the -Arabah (see on Deuteronomy 1:1) reckoned as Moabite. The designation is pecu

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 1-3. _AND MOSES WENT UP FROM THE PLAINS OF MOAB,_ &C.— As soon as he had taken this solemn leave of his nation, Moses, according to the divine appointment, ch. Deuteronomy 32:49 retired private...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    F. THE DEATH OF MOSES (Deuteronomy 34:1-12) 1. MOSES SHOWN THE PROMISED LAND FROM MOUNT NEBO; DIES AND IS BURIED (Deuteronomy 34:1-8) And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SUMMARY OF CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Moses goes up to Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, and God shows him the whole extent of the land which he promised to give to the descendants of Abraham, 1-4. There Mose...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND MOSES WENT UP FROM THE PLAINS OF MOAB UNTO THE MOUNTAIN OF NEBO, TO THE TOP OF PISGAH, THAT IS OVER AGAINST JERICHO. AND THE LORD SHEWED HIM ALL THE LAND OF GILEAD, UNTO DAN,_ Moses went up from...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAN is used to indicate the extreme N., as in the phrase 'from Dan to Beersheba,' though it was not till the time of the Judges that the Danites settled in that district: see Judges 18:28; Judges 18:2...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEATH OF MOSES In obedience to the divine command (Deuteronomy 32:48) Moses ascends to the top of Mt. Nebo, whence he views the Land of Promise. Thereafter he dies and God buries him. No man know...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 34 V1 Then Moses climbed from the plains of Moab to *Mount Nebo. He went to the top of *Mount P...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXXIV. DEATH OF MOSES. (1) PISGAH. — See Numbers 21:20. The word seems to mean a height. (1, 2) THE LORD SHEWED HIM ALL THE LAND OF GILEAD, UNTO DAN, AND ALL NAPHTALI... UNTO THE UTMOST SEA — that is...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֨עַל מֹשֶׁ֜ה מֵֽ עַרְבֹ֤ת מֹואָב֙ אֶל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MOSES' CHARACTER AND DEATH IT has been often said, and it has even become a principle of the critical school, that the historical notices in the earlier documents of the Old Testament represent nothin...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE GREAT LEADER'S EXODUS Deuteronomy 34:1 What inimitable beauty in this closing scene! The majestic withdrawal of the illustrious Lawgiver in view of the assembled nation! The panorama that greeted...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here in all likelihood we have the writing of another hand. The section contains the story of the death of Moses, the equipment of Joshua for his work, with a last tender reference to the great leader...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    A PROPHET LIKE NONE OTHER Deuteronomy 34:1-12 It took the death of Moses to evoke the words which serve as our title today. Ironically, that death marks the beginning of Israel's path into the promi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of (a) Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, (a) Which was...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS Here is related to us, the account of Moses' death. To whose pen we are indebted for the relation of it, under the HOLY GHOST, is not said. The LORD gives his servant a view of the promised...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._And Moses went. up from the plains of Moab. _It is not certain who wrote this chapter; unless we admit the probable conjecture of the ancients, that Joshua was its author. But since Eleazar the pri...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have now to consider a little the prohibition to which Moses was subjected, not to enter the land of promise. Moses, the man of God, might pronounce the blessings on Israel as in the land; but he h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND MOSES WENT UP FROM THE PLAINS OF MOAB,.... Where the Israelites had lain encamped for some time, and where Moses had repeated to them the law, and all that, is contained in this book of Deuteronom...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, Ver. 1. _And Moses...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Moses went up_ When he knew the place of his death, he cheerfully mounted the hill to come to it. Those who are well acquainted with another world, are not afraid to leave this. When God's servants a...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Moses from Mount Nebo vieweth the lande. 5 He dieth there. 6 His buriall. 7 His age. 8 Thirty dayes mourning for him. 9 Ioshua succeedeth him. 10 The praise of Moses. 1 AND Moses went vp from...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    MOSES DIES AND IS BURIED BY GOD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Moses went up from the Plains of Moab, where the children of Israel were still encamped, UNTO THE MOUNTAIN OF NEBO, TO THE TOP OF PISGAH, THAT IS, to its very summit, that is OVER AGAINST JERICHO....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF MOSES (vs.1-12) Thus Moses has given his last message to Israel, so that this chapter is necessarily penned by a different writer. Moses, fully aware that he would die on Moun...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PISGAH: Or, Hill...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 Moses seemed unwilling to leave his work; but that being finished, he manifested no unwillingness to die. God had declared that he should not enter Canaan. But the Lord also promised that Moses s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 34 Moses from Mount Nebo vieweth the land, DEUTERONOMY 34:1. He dieth there, DEUTERONOMY 34:5. His burial, DEUTERONOMY 34:6. His age,...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This brief chapter forms an inspired postscript to the book of Deuteronomy. We are not told who was employed as the instrument in the hand of the inspiring Spirit; but this is a matter of no moment to...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Deuteronomy 34:1 Moses H4872 up H5927 (H8799) plains H6160 Moab H4124 Mount H2022 Nebo H5015 top H7218 Pisgah

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 34 THE DEATH OF MOSES. The book closes with a record of the death of its main source. As has been mentioned previously Moses is unlikely to have recorded it himself. That would have been put i...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 34:1 The death of Moses is a twofold parable: I. Of the unrealised hopes of human life, the frequent disappointments, the unfulfilled purposes, which so often characterise it, and which...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Deuteronomy 34:1 We belong to two worlds. Neither the one nor the other completes our life. It is the action and reaction of their influences, the intermingling of their currents, which ministers to o...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Vision and death of Moses. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Those may leave this world with cheerfulness who have known God face to face through His Son, and who have had the vi...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Deuteronomy 34:1. _Moses went up to the top of Pisgah._ The Jews with general consent admit, that this chapter was written or copied into the text by Ezra, the ready scribe, a prophet and doctor of th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord shewed him all the land._ UNREALISED VISIONS The great parable of Israel’s wanderings has one of its profoundest applications in the death of its two great leaders: men above all others en...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 34:1__ Moses dies and is buried on Mount Nebo, overlooking the Promised Land. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.—This chapter, written after death of Moses, once formed an introduction to book of Joshua. Deuteronomy 34:1. Hoses ascends Nebo. Pisgah height, of which Nebo a peak; from which extensi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION DEATH, BURIAL, AND ENCOMIUM OF MOSES. After blessing the people, Moses, in obedience to the Divine command, ascended Mount Nebo, the highest peak of the Pisgah range, and thence surveyed...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter thirty-four. And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, clear unt...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 34:4; Ezekiel 40:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And Moses went up — When he knew the place of his death he chearfully mounted a steep hill to come to it. Those who are well acquainted with another world, are not afraid to leave this. When God's ser...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    FF— How could Moses have written this chapter which records his own death? PROBLEM: Deuteronomy 34 is a record of the death of Moses in the valley of Moab. However, the Book of Deuteronomy has tradit...

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