Deuteronomy 34:4

_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....

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....

I HAVE CAUSED THEE TO SEE IT - The sight thus afforded to Moses, like that of “all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time” Luke 4:5, was no doubt supernatural....

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 THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM,.... The Word of the Lord, as the Jerusalem Targum, having shown him all the land of Canaan: THIS [IS] THE LAND WHICH I SWARE UNTO ABRAHAM, UNTO ISAAC, AND UNTO JACOB, SAYING, I WILL GIVE IT UNTO THY SEED; to Abraham, Genesis 15:18; to Isaac, Genesis 26:3; to Jacob, Genesis 28:13; I HAVE CAUSED THEE TO SEE [IT] WITH THINE EYES; not only had indulged him with a general view of it, but had strengthened his eyesight, that he had a full, clear, and distinct sight of it: BUT THOU SHALT NOT GO OVER THITHER; which he had said more than once before and abides by it, and this because of the behaviour of Moses at the waters of Meribah,...

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_)....

SAID. See note on Deuteronomy 2:9. I SWARE. See Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:17. and compare Deuteronomy 3:27. UNTO ABRAHAM. All three Patriarchs named....

_the land which I sware_, etc.] As Exodus 33:1, see above on Deuteronomy 1:8. _thou shalt not go over thither_ Deuteronomy 1:37; Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 4:21 f., and in P, Deuteronomy 32:52; Numbers 20:12....

_VER._ 4. _AND THE LORD SAID—THIS IS THE LAND,_ &C.— As much as to say, "Let the view I have now given you, fill you with a comfortable sense and assurance how faithful I will be to my promise, in bestowing upon the descendants of Abraham, the people that you have so long had under your care and administration, this fair country which I have _caused you to see with your eyes;_ have, with a supernatural power, strengthened your visual faculty to behold in its full extent. _But you shall not go over thither;_ you shall not enter into this country, but shall die in peace and tranquillity, rejoiced in the full assurance that all the divine promises to the patriarchs shall be fulfilled." Dr. Macknight, in his Harmony, well observes, that it is evident, that this sight was not an imaginary prospect, from Moses's going up into a mountain to take the view: for, had it been either a delineation o...