Deuteronomy 34:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. ”

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 34. The Death of Moses on Mount Pisgah ( JE ). ( Deuteronomy 34:1 b - Deuteronomy 34:6 .) Deuteronomy 34:1 . over against: lit. in front, i.e. E. Render, the land, that is,...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons. thirty days. The mourning lasted from thirtieth day of the eleventh month (Sebat) till the twenty-ninth (and last) day of the twelfth month (Adar). See App-51. Thus the forty yea...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. Wept for Moses thirty days. Seven days was the usual per...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Death of Moses In obedience to the divine command ( Deuteronomy 32:48-52 ) Moses ascends to the top of Mt. Nebo, whence he views the Land of Promise. Thereafter he dies and God buries him. No...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The children of Israel wept for Moses... thirty days... — As they did for Aaron, his brother ( Numbers 20:29 ). It is remarkable that the burial and the tomb of Aaron are only alluded to in Deuter...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

MOSES' CHARACTER AND DEATH IT has been often said, and it has even become a principle of the critical school, that the historical notices in the earlier documents of the Old Testament represent no...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Great Leader's Exodus Deuteronomy 34:1-12 What inimitable beauty in this closing scene! The majestic withdrawal of the illustrious Lawgiver in view of the assembled nation! The panorama tha...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here in all likelihood we have the writing of another hand. The section contains the story of the death of Moses, the equipment of Joshua for his work, with a last tender reference to the great leade...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The mourning of Israel for Moses, was decent and proper. We are not commanded to refrain from mourning, only we are not to sorrow as without hope. Oh! what a difference hath the death and resurrectio...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days ,.... According both to Josephus n and the Samaritan Chronicle o, they cried and wept in a very vehement manner, when he s...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended. Ver. 8. And the children of Israel wept. ] And were ready t...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thirty days Which was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminence. It is a debt owing to the surviving honour of deceased worthies, to follow them with our tears, as those who...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF MOSES (vs.1-12) Thus Moses has given his last message to Israel, so that this chapter is necessarily penned by a different writer. Moses, fully aware that he would die on...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Death of Moses. B. C. 1451. 5 So Moses the servant of the L ORD died there in the...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thirty days was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminency. See Genesis 1:3,10 Num 20:29 . For others seven days sufficed.
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 34 The Death of Moses. The book closes with a record of the death of its main source. As has been mentioned previously Moses is unlikely to have recorded it himself. That would have been...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— This chapter, written after death of Moses, once formed an introduction to book of Joshua. Deuteronomy 34:1-4 . Hoses ascends Nebo. Pisgah height, of which Nebo a peak; from which...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:1-8 The death of Moses is a twofold parable: I. Of the unrealised hopes of human life, the frequent disappointments, the unfulfilled purposes, which so often characterise it, and w...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 34:1 . Moses went up to the top of Pisgah. The Jews with general consent admit, that this chapter was written or copied into the text by Ezra, the ready scribe, a prophet and doctor of...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

He buried him, but no man knoweth of his sepulchre. The burial of Moses I. God will have no one, living or dead, to stand between His creatures and Himself. II. God wishes men to see somethi...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION DEATH , BURIAL , AND ENCOMIUM OF MOSES . After blessing the people, Moses, in obedience to the Divine command, ascended Mount Nebo, the highest peak of the Pisgah range, and...
Deuteronomy 34:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Moses Dies and is Buried by God
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 25:1 ; Acts 8:2 ; Genesis 50:10 ; Genesis 50:3 ; Isaiah 57:1 ; Numbers 20:29
Deuteronomy 34:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thirty day's — Which was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminency. 'Tis a debt owing to the surviving honour of deceased worthies, to follow them with our tears, as those w...

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 34:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 34:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Deuteronomy 34:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 34:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes