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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 34:5

It is implied here that Moses was alone. But Josephus says that he was accompanied to the top of the hill by 'the senate, and Eleazar, and Joshua.' After viewing the land Moses dismissed the senate, and 'as he was about to embrace Eleazar and Joshua was still discoursing with them a cloud stood over him on a sudden and he disappeared in a certain valley.' With this compare the departure of Elijah, 2 Kings 2:11. Jewish writers take literally the words at the end of this v., according to the word of the Lord, and say that God 'kissed him and he slept.'

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Deuteronomy 34:5. _SO MOSES - DIED - ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD._] על פי יהוה _al pi Yehovah, at the mouth of Jehovah_; i. e., by the especial command and authority of the Lord; but it is...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD - It denotes that Moses died, not because his vital powers were exhausted, but by the sentence of God, and as a punishment for his sin. Compare Deuteronomy 32:51....

  • 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

    MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. First occurrence. Occurs eighteen times. See Joshua 1:1; Joshua 1:13; Joshua 1:15; Joshua 8:31;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 5. _SO MOSES, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, DIED THERE_— This is the highest character which can be given to any man, _the servant of Jehovah;_ and it is given by God himself to Moses after his deat...

  • 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

    _SO MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE LORD DIED THERE IN THE LAND OF MOAB, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD._ So Moses the servant of the Lord, х_ `EBED_ (H5650) _ YAHWEH_ (H3068)] - sometimes used to design...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    34:5 word (i-17) Lit. 'mouth.'...

  • 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

    SO (better, _and_) MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE LORD DIED THERE IN THE LAND OF MOAB, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD. — Literally, _upon the mouth of the Lord,_ and hence the Jewish interpretation that...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֨מָת שָׁ֜ם מֹשֶׁ֧ה עֶֽבֶד ־יְהוָ֛ה בְּ

  • 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

    Died there. This last chapter of Deuteronomy, in which the death of Moses is related, was written by Josue, or by some of the prophets. (Challoner) --- Josephus ([Antiquities iv. 9), Philo, and Origen...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we arrive to the close of all in Moses. He felt that sentence which passeth upon all men, because all have sinned. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3:19. But Reader! observ...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE DEATH OF MOSES_ ‘And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thin...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._So Moses the servant of the Lord died. _Since it was mark of ignominy to die without the borders of the Holy Land, Moses is honored with high eulogy, in order that the Israelites might learn the mo...

  • 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

    SO MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE LORD DIED THERE, IN THE LAND OF MOAB,.... Which formerly belonged to Moab, and was taken from them by Sihon king of the Amorites, and now in the possession of Israel: here...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. Ver. 5. _So Moses the servant of the Lord died._] It was no more between God and Moses, but Go up a...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Deu. 34:5. Moses brought the children of Israel into the wilderness and to the very border of Canaan, but carried them no further; there he left them, and it was not Moses, but Joshua or Jesus, that c...

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

    _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 bring...

  • 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

    So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, namely, on Mount Nebo, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD, Deuteronomy 32:50....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    MOSES DIES AND IS BURIED BY GOD...

  • 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

    i.e. In the land which Israel took from the Amorites, which anciently was the land of Moab....

  • 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 34:5 Moses H4872 servant H5650 LORD H3068 died H4191 (H8799) land H776 Moab H4124 word H6310 LORD

  • 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 34:5 The great feature of the record contained in the words before us is the incompleteness of the life of Moses. He died before the people entered the land. This fact suggests two truths:...

  • 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

    _So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died._ THE DEATH OF MOSES I. the greatest of men are but instruments in God’s hands, and He can afford to lay them aside when He chooses. Let this thought-- 1. D...

  • 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

    2 Peter 1:1; 2 Timothy 2:25; Deuteronomy 31:14; Deuteronomy 32:50;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 bringi...

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