Deuteronomy 31:1-8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Deuteronomy 31-34. Moses-' last words and the closing events of his life. The narrative parts (based on JE and in part on P) resemble chs. 1- 3, and are probably by the same author or compiler. Deuteronomy 32:1-4 (the Song of Moses) and Deuteronomy 33 (the Blessing of Moses) are independent pieces of unknown origin.

Deuteronomy 31:1-8. See RV refs. for parallel passages.

Deuteronomy 31:1. Read (with LXX), And when Moses had finished speaking these words, etc.

Deuteronomy 31:7. go with: read (with Sam. Syr., Vulg., and two Heb. MSS), bring, as in Deuteronomy 31:23.

Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 31:1

Deuteronomy 31:1-8

1 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.

2 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

3 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.

4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.