Deuteronomy 3:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. ”

• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  That goodly mountain - i. e., that mountainous district. The fiat districts of the East are generally scorched, destitute of water, and therefore sterile: the hilly ones, on the contrary, are of...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly (k) mountain, and Lebanon. (k) He means Zion, where the Temple should be built, and God honoured.

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Moses encourages his successor ( Deuteronomy 3:21 f. absent from Numbers 3:32 )and prays, though in vain, to be allowed to cross the Jordan ( Deuteronomy 3:23-29 recorded here only). Deuterono...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the good land. Compare Psalms 106:24 . Numbers 13:27 .

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 188 MOSES VIEWS CANAAN FROM PISGAH Deuteronomy 3:23-28 . And I besought the Lord at that time, saying, O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty ha...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 21-29 . As Joshua was ordained to succeed Moses in the government, he repeats the encouragement that he gave him to be brave and confident in so good a cause. Joshua had seen already some of...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. That goodly mountain, and Lebanon. The name Lebanon denotes 'whiteness,' and was g...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  First Discourse ( Deuteronomy 1:14 to Deuteronomy 4:43 ) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promi...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (23-28) And I besought the Lord at that time. — Two things Moses is recorded to have asked for himself in the story of the exodus. The first is written in Exodus 33:18 , “I beseech thee shew me...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT Deuteronomy 1:1-46 ; Deuteronomy 2:1-37 ; Deuteronomy 3:1-29 AFTER these preliminary discussions we now enter upon the exposition. With the exception of the first two ve...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Take Heed to Thyself” Deuteronomy 3:23-29 ; Deuteronomy 4:1-14 Strong faith was required by the two and a half tribes to leave their wives and children while they went to succor their brethre...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  As this is a very interesting part in the life of Moses, and as the subject held forth to us in it is highly instructive, I would beg the Reader to pause over it, and remark with me some of the sweet...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  AN UNANSWERED PRAYER ‘I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.’ Deuteronomy 3:25 I. It was a land, a good land, which Mos...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan ,.... The land of Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey; a land which he describes as a most excellent one, Deuteronom...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. Ver. 25. The good land. ] The "glory of all lands." Eze 20:6 Goodly mountain. ] Mo...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Let me go over For he supposed God's threatening might be conditional and reversible, as many others were. That goodly mountain Which the Jews not improbably understood of that mountain on which...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  OG, KING OF BASHAN, DEFEATED (vs.1-11) The history of Og's defeat is in Numbers 21:33-35 . Moses recounts this. Og and his people came out against Israel to battle, just as the ungodly would opp...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Joshua Named as Moses's Successor. B. C. 1451.       21 And I commanded Joshua at that time,...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  For he supposed God's threatening might be conditional and reversible, as many others were. That goodly mountain, or, that blessed mountain , which the Jews not improbably understand of that mount...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Moses' Plea To Be Able To Enter The Land ( Deuteronomy 3:23-29 ). But one of the things that grieved Moses most was the fact that through his own sin of impatience, carelessness, petulance and un...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES .— Conquest of Og . Israel were able to advance to the Jordan after the defeat of Sihon and the conquest of his land. But Og, the Amonitish King, still kept the northern half of Gilea...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Deuteronomy 3:25 I. It was a land, a good land, which Moses looked upon; it was a land of promise which God had prepared. Canaan was, in a sense, the heaven of Israel's hope: the more heaven-like...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Deuteronomy 3:9 . Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion. The LXX, willing to adapt the language of the sacred writings to their own age, say, “Which Hermon the Phœnicians call Sanior.” See notes...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou hast begun to show. Revelation always new “Thou hast begun.” That is all He can do. Always beginning, never ending that is the mystery and that is the glory of the Divine revelation. When...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 3:1-5 CONQUEST OF OG , KING OF BASHAN . The Amorites had wrested from Moab a portion of the territory taken by the Moabites and the Edomites from th...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Charge to Joshua

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 11:11 ; Deuteronomy 11:12 ; Deuteronomy 4:21 ; Deuteronomy 4:22 ; Exodus 3:8 ; Ezekiel 20:6 ; Numbers 32:5

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Turning Backward Deuteronomy 2:1-37 and Deuteronomy 3:1-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Last week we closed with God's refusal to permit the Children of Israel to go into the land of Canaan. They...

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• Deuteronomy 3:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Let me go over — For he supposed God's threatening might be conditional and reversible, as many others were. That goodly mountain — Which the Jews not improbably understood of that mountain on whic...

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