Deuteronomy 34:1-6

The Death of Moses

1 ¹Now Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite * Jericho. And the LORD ²showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,

2 and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the ³western sea,

3 and the Negev and the plain in the valley of Jericho, ⁴the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

4 Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land which ⁵I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants '; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."

5 So Moses ⁶the servant of the LORD ⁷died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

6 And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, ⁸opposite Beth-peor; but ⁹no man knows his burial place to this day.

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Deuteronomy 34:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 34

This chapter informs us of Moses going up to the top of Pisgah, where he was shown the whole land of Canaan, De 34:1-4; of his death, burial, and age, De 34:5-7; of Israel's mourning for him, and the time of it, De 34:8; of his successor Joshua, De 34:9; and of the character of Moses, to whom no prophet was to be compared, De 34:10-12.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. Deuteronomy 32:49
2. Deuteronomy 32:52
3. Deuteronomy 11:24
4. Judges 1:16; Judges 3:13; 2 Chronicles 28:15
5. Genesis 12:7; Genesis 26:3; Genesis 28:13
6. Numbers 12:7; Joshua 1:1, 2
7. Deuteronomy 32:50
8. Deuteronomy 3:29; Deuteronomy 4:46
9. Jude 9

Footnotes 4

[a]. I.e. Mediterranean Sea
[b]. I.e. South country
[c]. Lit "seed"
[d]. Lit "mouth"