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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8

And the children of Israel wept for Moses, held a great mourning for him, in the Plains of Moab thirty days; so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended, a fine expression of their appreciation of this great prophet of the Lord, which is properly copied by grateful congregations and larger church-bodies to this day.

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  • 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

    CHILDREN. sons. THIRTY DAYS. The mourning lasted from thirtieth day of the eleventh month (Sebat) till the twenty-ninth (and last) day of the twelfth month (Adar). See App-51. Thus the forty years we...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the children of Israel wept … thirty days_ So P, Numbers 20:29, of Aaron; _plains of Moab_again _-arbôth Mo'ab_, see Deuteronomy 34:1....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WEPT FOR MOSES IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB THIRTY DAYS: SO THE DAYS OF WEEPING AND MOURNING FOR MOSES WERE ENDED._ Wept for Moses thirty days. Seven days was the usual period of...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The usual period of mourning seems to have been thirty days: see Numbers 20:29; Genesis 50:3, and cp. Deuteronomy 21:13. Of these the first seven were more stringently observed: see...

  • 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

    THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WEPT FOR MOSES... THIRTY DAYS... — As they did for Aaron, his brother (Numbers 20:29). It is remarkable that the burial and the tomb of Aaron are only alluded to in Deuteronomy...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּבְכּוּ֩ בְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל אֶת ־מֹשֶׁ֛ה...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Days, as they had done for Mary [Miriam] and for Aaron: (Josephus) the usual term was only seven days. (Calmet) --- The Jews would probably have prolonged their mourning for Moses forty days, in hono...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The mourning of Israel for Moses, was decent and proper. We are not commanded to refrain from mourning, only we are not to sorrow as without hope. Oh! what a difference hath the death and resurrection...

  • 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 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 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WEPT FOR MOSES IN THE PLAINS OF MOAB THIRTY DAYS,.... According both to Josephus n and the Samaritan Chronicle o, they cried and wept in a very vehement manner, when he sign...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended. Ver. 8. _And the children of Israel wept._] And were ready to...

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

    _Thirty days_ Which was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminence. It is a debt owing to the surviving honour of deceased worthies, to follow them with our tears, as those who...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-8 Moses obeyed this command of God as willingly as any other, though it seemed harder. In this he resembled our Lord Jesus Christ. But he died in honour, in peace, and in the most easy manner; the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THIRTY DAYS was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminency. See GENESIS 1:3,10 NUM 20:29. For others seven days sufficed....

  • 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 34:8 children H1121 Israel H3478 wept H1058 (H8799) Moses H4872 plains H6160 Moab H4124 thirty H7970

  • 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...

  • 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

    _He buried him, but no man knoweth of his sepulchre._ THE BURIAL OF MOSES I. God will have no one, living or dead, to stand between His creatures and Himself. II. God wishes men to see something mo...

  • 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

    1 Samuel 25:1; Acts 8:2; Genesis 50:10; Genesis 50:3; Isaiah 57:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thirty day's — Which was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminency. 'Tis a debt owing to the surviving honour of deceased worthies, to follow them with our tears, as those who...

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