_A.M. 2553. B.C. 1451._ Moses, having finished his testimony, finishes his life. Here is, The view Moses had of the land, Deuteronomy 34:1. His death, burial, and age, Deuteronomy 34:5. Israel's mourning for him, Deuteronomy 34:8. His successor, Deuteronomy 34:9. His character, Deuteronomy 34:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 are sent for out of the world, the summons runs, “Go up and die!” _From the plains of Moab_ In which... [ Continue Reading ]
_All Naphtali_ The land of Naphtali, which, together with Dan, was in the north of Canaan, as Ephraim and Manasseh were in the midland parts, and Judah on the south, and the sea on the west. So these parts, lying in the several quarters, are put for all the rest. He stood in the east, and saw also G... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have caused thee to see it_ For though his sight was good, yet he could not have seen all Canaan, a hundred and sixty miles in length, and fifty or sixty in breadth, if his sight had not been miraculously assisted and enlarged, He saw it at a distance. Such a sight the Old Testament believers had... [ Continue Reading ]
_So Moses the servant of the Lord died_ He is called the servant of the Lord, not only as a good man, (all such are his servants,) but as a man eminently useful, who had served God's counsels in bringing Israel out of Egypt, and leading them through the wilderness. And it was more his honour to be t... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he_ That is, the Lord, the immediate and only antecedent to the pronoun _he; buried him_ Using, no doubt, the ministry of angels for this purpose. Some, indeed, who are of opinion that there was nothing miraculous in his death or burial, propose rendering the words, _He was buried_, urging in d... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died_ But though he lived the full length of human life, and to an age which, in others that live up to it, is accompanied with many diseases and infirmities, yet this had made little or no alteration in him. By a miraculous work of God, in mercy to... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 loved and valued them, are sensible of the loss of them, and humbled for the sins which have provoke... [ Continue Reading ]
_Joshua was full of the Spirit of wisdom_ And other gifts and graces also, but wisdom is mentioned as being most necessary for the government to which he was now called. _For Moses had laid his hands upon him_ Whereby he committed to him the supreme authority after his departure, and implored the gi... [ Continue Reading ]
_There arose not a prophet since like unto Moses_ And yet it is said (Deu 18:15) that God would raise up a prophet, from the midst of Israel, like unto Moses. Whence it follows, that this promise was not fulfilled either in Joshua or Samuel, and the best of the Jews confess, that it should not be fu... [ Continue Reading ]
_In all the signs_, &c. In these also Moses excelled all the prophets, doing more miracles than any, yea, than all that succeeded him. But the prophet whom God raised up like unto Moses in the latter days, not only equalled, but exceeded him in this, as well as in every other respect. _Which Moses s... [ Continue Reading ]