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Deuteronomy 34:1

in Deuteronomy 34

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

KJV

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,

This verse in Deuteronomy 34

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Dan - This can hardly be the Dan (Dan-Laish) of Jdg 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, 2Sa 24:6; and the Dan of Gen 14:14.

This site's exposition

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab

on Deuteronomy 34:1-3

The going up was ordered twice, at 3:27 where the mountain is called the top of Pisgah and at 32:49 where it is called Nebo, and this verse uses both names together. What is shown is named by tribes, Gilead unto Dan, then Naphtali, Ephraim, Manasseh and Judah, so Moses is given the country as it will be divided rather than as it stood that day. Readers divide over the sight itself. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown hold that no miraculous power of vision was imparted and that the foreground alone was clearly discernible, while Albert Barnes reads the showing as supernatural and sets it beside the sight of all the kingdoms of the world at Luke 4:5.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Immediately below him was "the circle" of the plain of Jericho, with its oasis of palm trees; and far away on his left, the last inhabited spot before the great desert "Zoar." The foreground of the picture alone was clearly discernible. There was no miraculous power of vision imparted to Moses.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

AND THE ETERNAL SHOWED HIM [MOSES] ALL THE LAND — all the Land of Israel beyond the Jordan [westward] — and then the verse states that He showed him even Gilead, as far as Dan.
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Deuteronomy 34:1:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֨עַלand he went up

    vaiyaalH5927890 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֜הMoses

    moshehH4872765 times

  • מֵֽעַרְבֹ֤תfrom [the] desert plains of

    mearvotH616061 times

  • מוֹאָב֙Moab

    moavH4124181 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • הַ֣ר[the] mountain of

    harH2022546 times

  • נְב֔וֹNebo

    nevoH5015

  • רֹ֚אשׁ[the] top of

    roshH7218599 times

  • הַפִּסְגָּ֔ה<the> Pisgah

    hapisgahH64498 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • עַל־[is] on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • פְּנֵ֣י[the] face of

    peneiH64402123 times

  • יְרֵח֑וֹJericho

    yerechoH340557 times

  • וַיַּרְאֵ֨הוּand he showed him

    vaiyarehuH72001300 times

  • יְהוָ֧הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הָאָ֛רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַגִּלְעָ֖ד<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568134 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • דָּֽן׃Dan

    danH183570 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Revelation 21:10

    And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 8:3

      He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Revelation 21:2

      I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

    • Ezekiel 11:24

      And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,

    • Ezekiel 40:1–49

      In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand…

    • Ezekiel 11:1

      Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them…

  • Through

    Numbers 27:12

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 33:47–48

      They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 40:2

    In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose southern slope was a structure that resembled a city.

    it leads to

    • Daniel 7:7

      After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot…

    • Ezekiel 1:1

      In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

Where this verse is studied

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About Deuteronomy

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.