Deuteronomy 34:1

_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 to the death of Moses; and it probably formed at one time an introduction to the book of Joshua, the first eight verses being probably written by him immediately after the death of Moses, and the last four verses by Ezra. Josephus says that Moses wrote the account of his death before his ascent to Nebo ('Antiquities,' b. 4:, ch. 8:, sec. 48). UNTO THE MOUNTAIN OF NEBO, TO THE TOP OF PISGAH - literally, the head or summit of the Pisgah; i:e., the height (cf. Numbers 23:14; Deute

1._And Moses went. up from the plains of Moab. _It is not certain who wrote this chapter; unless we admit the probable conjecture of the ancients, that Joshua was its author. But since Eleazar the priest might have performed this office, it will be better to leave a matter of no very great importance undecided. We have elsewhere said, that one part of mount Abarim was called Nebo, as another was called Pisgah, because they were distinct summits. Now, the ascent of Moses was equivalent to a voluntary going forth to death: for he was not ignorant of what was to happen, but being called by God to die, he went to meet death of his own accord. Such willing submission proceeded from no other source than faith in God’s grace, whereby alone all terror is mitigated, and set at rest, and the bitterness of death is sweetened. Doubtless to Moses, as to every one else, it must have been naturally an...

1-4 Moses seemed unwilling to leave his work; but that being finished, he manifested no unwillingness to die. God had declared that he should not enter Canaan. But the Lord also promised that Moses should have a view of it, and showed him all that good land. Such a sight believers now have, through grace, of the bliss and glory of their future state. Sometimes God reserves the brightest discoveries of his grace to his people to support their dying moments. Those may leave this world with cheerfulness, who die in the faith of Christ, and in the hope of heaven....

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 age and strength of constitution_, 7. _The people weep for him thirty days_, 8. _Joshua being filled with the spirit of wisdom, the Israelites_ _hearken to him, as the Lord commanded them_, 9. The character of Moses as a prophet,

DAN - This can hardly be the Dan (Dan-Laish) of Judges 18:27 ff, which was not in Gilead. It is probably a town of this name which stood in the north of Peraea; perhaps the same as Dan-jaan, 2 Samuel 24:6; and the Dan of Genesis 14:14....

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 the whole land of Canaan, from north to south, and from east to west, as well as the district on the east of the Jordan, not included in Canaan proper. DEUTERONOMY 34:1 UNTO THE MOUNTAIN OF NEBO, TO THE TOP OF PISGAH; rather, _unto Mount Nebo_,_ the summit of Pisgah_._ _GILEAD UNTO DAN. Not Dan Laish, near the central source of the Jordan, which was not in Gilead, but another Dan in Northern Perea, the site of which has not yet been discovered (cf....

AND MOSES WENT UP FROM THE PLAINS OF MOAB,.... Where the Israelites had lain encamped for some time, and where Moses had repeated to them the law, and all that, is contained in this book of Deuteronomy; and after he had read to them the song in Deuteronomy 32:1; and had blessed the several tribes, as in the preceding chapter: at the command of God he went up from hence, UNTO THE MOUNTAIN OF NEBO, TO THE TOP OF PISGAH, THAT [IS] OVER AGAINST JERICHO; Nebo was one of the mountains of Abarim, which formed a ridge of them, and Pisgah was the highest point of Nebo, and this was over against Jericho on the other side Jordan, see Deuteronomy 32:49; hither Moses went, to the top of this high mountain, for aught appears, without any support or help, his natural force not being abat

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 34:9) This chapter was not written by Moses, but is an addition by another chosen instrument. The home-going of this great man of God is beyond description. What a scene it must have been when he ascended Nebo to the top of Pisgah! And the Lord met him there and showed him the land and said: “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 thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither

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, that is, Gilead to Dan. Deuteronomy 34:2. hinder: render western (Deuteronomy 11:24 *, _cf. Deuteronomy 34:1_)....

THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ Compare App-4. SHEWED HIM. caused him to see. Compare Matthew 4:8; Luke 4:5. DAN. Compare Genesis 14:14. Not Judges 18:29....