The Death and Burial of Moses Moses ascends Nebo and the Lord shows him the Land from Dan to Zoar promised to the Patriarchs, which he is not to enter (Deuteronomy 34:1-4). So he dies, and God buries him, in the land of Moab, no man knowing his grave (Deuteronomy 34:5 f.) his age 120 years, reached... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 peculiar to P, who gives it as Israel's last camp before crossing Jordan, Numbers 33:48-50, cp. Numbers... [ Continue Reading ]
_all Naphtali_ The lofty country N. and N.W. of the Lake of Galilee, some of whose hills, over 2,500 feet, may (as Dri. says) be visible from Nebo, as the lower Mt Tabor to the S. of them is. _and_ ALL _the land of Ephraim and Manasseh_ So LXX. These certainly are in sight with Ebal and Gerizim and... [ Continue Reading ]
_the South_ Heb. _the Negeb_, see on Deuteronomy 1:7. _the Plain_ Heb. _kikkar_, the root meaning of which, to judge from its use alike for a district, a loaf and a weight, must be _round_or _oval_. Render THE ROUND: here in apposition (delete _of_) to the _Biḳ-ah_(lit. space _cleft_or _laid open_be... [ Continue Reading ]
_the land which I sware_, etc.] As Exodus 33:1, see above on Deuteronomy 1:8. _thou shalt not go over thither_ Deuteronomy 1:37; Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 4:21 f., and in P, Deuteronomy 32:52; Numbers 20:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the servant of_ JEHOVAH] So JE, Numbers 12:7 f., _my servant_, and as here, Joshua 1:1 f., Joshua 1:7; Joshua 1:13; Joshua 1:15, etc. _according to the word of_, etc.] Lit. _mouth of_, frequent in P.... [ Continue Reading ]
_he buried He_can only be _Jehovah_, for _no man_knew the grave; hence the rendering _they buried_, though possible, so far as the grammar goes, is contrary to the sense. _the valley … Beth-peor_ See on Deuteronomy 3:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
_an hundred and twenty years_ Dates, we have seen, are characteristic of P; this one is a round number = three full generations (see on Deuteronomy 2:7); cp. Exodus 7:7. _nor his natural force abated_ Lit. _nor had his sap fled_or _ebbed_. The phrase cannot be assigned to one source more than anoth... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_was full of the spirit of wisdom_ Cp. P in Exodus 28:3, where the wisdom is of a different kind. _laid his hands upon him_ So P, Numbers 27:18-23.... [ Continue Reading ]
The phraseology now becomes deuteronomic. See on Deuteronomy 18:15; Deuteronomy 18:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
These _vv_. are irrelevant to the more spiritual estimate of Moses" prophetic rank in Deuteronomy 34:10, and therefore may be due to a later hand. On the deuteronomic phrases _signs and wonders, mighty hand, great terror_, see Deuteronomy 4:34, and on _all Israel_(not P's _children of Israel_), see... [ Continue Reading ]