_AND MOSES WENT UP FROM THE PLAINS OF MOAB UNTO THE MOUNTAIN OF NEBO, TO THE TOP OF PISGAH, THAT IS OVER AGAINST JERICHO. AND THE LORD SHEWED HIM ALL THE LAND OF GILEAD, UNTO DAN,_ Moses went up from the plains of Moab. This chapter appears, from internal evidence, to have been written subsequently... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL NAPHTALI, AND THE LAND OF EPHRAIM, AND MANASSEH, AND ALL THE LAND OF JUDAH, UNTO THE UTMOST SEA,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 designate a worshipper of Yahweh (Ezra 5:11; Neb. 1:10; 6:21), but specially a minister or ambassador call... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BURIED HIM IN A VALLEY IN THE LAND OF MOAB, OVER AGAINST BETHPEOR: BUT NO MAN KNOWETH OF HIS SEPULCHRE UNTO THIS DAY._ He buried him - or, impersonally, 'he was buried in a valley;' i:e., a ravine or gorge of the Pisgah. Some think that he entered a cave and there died, being, according to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MOSES WAS AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED: HIS EYE WAS NOT DIM, NOR HIS NATURAL FORCE ABATED._ His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. He seems to have been endowed with supernatural vigour, which sustained his bodily and mental powers to the eve of the entrance into Ca... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 mourning; but for persons of high rank or official eminence, it was extended to thirty (Genesis 50:... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN WAS FULL OF THE SPIRIT OF WISDOM; FOR MOSES HAD LAID HIS HANDS UPON HIM: AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HEARKENED UNTO HIM, AND DID AS THE LORD COMMANDED MOSES._ Joshua ... was full of the spirit of wisdom - he was appointed to a special and extraordinary office: he was not t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THERE AROSE NOT A PROPHET SINCE IN ISRAEL LIKE UNTO MOSES, WHOM THE LORD KNEW FACE TO FACE,_ There arose not a prophet since. In whatever light we view this extraordinary man, the eulogy pronounced in these inspired words will appear just. No Hebrew prophet or ruler equalled him in character,... [ Continue Reading ]