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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 34
Moses sees promised land and is taken by the Lord—Joshua leads
Israel—Moses was Israel's greatest prophet.
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1 AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the
mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is
aover against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land
of Gilead, unto Dan,
2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and
Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto athe utmost
sea,
3 And the asouth, and the plain of
the valley of bJericho, the city of palm trees, unto
Zoar.
4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land
which I asware 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.
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5 ¶ So aMoses the servant of the
LORD bdied there in the land of Moab, according to the word
of the LORD.
6 And he aburied him in a valley in
the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth
bof his csepulchre unto this day.
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7 ¶ And Moses was an
ahundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not
dim, nor his natural force abated.
8 ¶ And the children of Israel wept for Moses in
the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and
amourning for Moses were ended.
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9 ¶ And Joshua the son of
aNun was full of the spirit of
wisdoma; for Moses had
blaid his hands upon
himb: and the children of Israel
chearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
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9a Joshua the son of Nun was full of the
spirit of wisdom Joshua assumed the full mantle of being the
prophet of the Lord. Yet from the Jewish perspective, all such prophets which
followed Moses did but live in Moses' shadow. This ought not be the case.
Moses was a great prophet and a head of a dispensation of time and the
bearer of the keys of the gathering of Israel. But one ought not elevate
any such prophet of God to such a level that the man become greater than
the position, which is that he is a man of weakness made strong in position
by the arm and power of God.
9b Moses had laid his hands upon
him Moses had ordained Joshua to the powers of the priesthood
after the order of God. Moses had also ordained Aaron and the sons of
Aaron to the lesser Levitical priesthood. The power of these ordinations
come from and are of God, yet the Jewish perspective tends to lean toward
giving Moses the credit in the manner which they tell the history rather than
attributing to Joshua that he had his authority from God just as Moses did
and that it was not reliant upon Moses in any way. It is totaly reliant upon
the Lord and not of man.
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10 ¶ And there arose not a
aprophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD
knew bface to face,
11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
12 And in all that mighty ahand,
and in all the great bterror which Moses shewed in the
sight of all Israel.
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