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 died, and was so privately buried by the Lord that_ _his sepulchre was never discovered_, 5, 6. _His... [ Continue Reading ]
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 possible that what is here said refers only to the sentence of his exclusion from the promised land... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 34:6. _HE BURIED HIM_] It is probable that the reason why Moses was buried thus _privately_ was, lest the Israelites, prone to idolatry, should pay him Divine honours; and God would not have the body of his faithful servant abused in this way. Almost all the gods of antiquity were... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 34:7. _HIS EYE WAS NOT DIM_] Even at the advanced age of a hundred and twenty; _nor his natural force abated _- he was a young man even in old age, notwithstanding the unparalleled hardships he had gone through. See the account of his life at the end of this chapter (Deuteronomy 34... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 34:9. _LAID HIS HANDS UPON HIM_] See on Numbers 27:18-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 34:10. _THERE AROSE NOT A PROPHET, C._] Among all the succeeding prophets none was found so eminent in all respects nor so highly privileged as Moses with him God spoke _face to face _- admitted him to the closest familiarity and greatest friendship with himself. Now all this cont... [ Continue Reading ]
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES WE have now passed through the Pentateuch, and have endeavoured carefully to mark its important contents. Its _antiquity_ sets it at the head of all the writings in the world; and the various subjects it embraces make it of the utmost consequence to e... [ Continue Reading ]