Deutéronome 34:3

3 le midi, les environs du Jourdain, la vallée de Jéricho, la ville des palmiers, jusqu'à Tsoar.

Deutéronome 34:3 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:3

And the south
The southern part of the land, even all of it; and having shown him that, he is directed eastward to take a view of

the plain of the valley of Jericho;
which lay before him, a delightful plain; see ( Joshua 5:10 ) ;

the city of palm trees;
so Jericho was called, because of the multitude of palm trees which grew there, and which Josephus not only testifies {r}, who speaks of it as a plain planted with palm trees, and from whence balsam comes; but several Heathen writers: Pliny says ^F19 Jericho was set with palm trees; Diodorus Siculus ^F20 speaks of the country about Jericho as abounding with palm trees, and in a certain valley, meaning the vale or plains of Jericho, is produced that which is called balsam; so Strabo says ^F21, Jericho is a plain surrounded with mountains abounding with palm trees, where there is a plantation of palm trees, with other fruit trees, the space of a hundred furlongs:

unto Zoar;
near the salt sea; see ( Genesis 19:22 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 De Bello Jud. l. 1. c. 18. sect. 5. & l. 4. c. 8. sect. 2.
F19 Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 14.
F20 Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 132.
F21 Geograph. l. 16. p. 525.

Deutéronome 34:3 In-Context

1 Moïse monta des plaines de Moab sur le mont Nebo, au sommet du Pisga, vis-à-vis de Jéricho. Et l'Eternel lui fit voir tout le pays: Galaad jusqu'à Dan,

2 tout Nephthali, le pays d'Ephraïm et de Manassé, tout le pays de Juda jusqu'à la mer occidentale,

3 le midi, les environs du Jourdain, la vallée de Jéricho, la ville des palmiers, jusqu'à Tsoar.

4 L'Eternel lui dit: C'est là le pays que j'ai juré de donner à Abraham, à Isaac et à Jacob, en disant: Je le donnerai à ta postérité. Je te l'ai fait voir de tes yeux; mais tu n'y entreras point.

5 Moïse, serviteur de l'Eternel, mourut là, dans le pays de Moab, selon l'ordre de l'Eternel.