Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, [even] to the children of Israel.
Ver. 2. Moses my servant.] My menial servant, faithful in all my house. This was a higher title than that of king in Jeshurun. Deu 33:5 See Trapp on " Psa 36:1 "
Now therefore arise, go.] Up, and act vigorously: surge, age, summe Pater, said Mantuan to the Bishop of Rome, stirring him up to withstand the Turk.
Go over this Jordan.] A famous river rising from a double fountain, Jor and Dan, say some, a and falling into the Dead Sea, with which it mingleth. Whereas some rivers will not do so: as the Danube and Sava in Hungary, whose waters meeting mingle no more than water and oil, as an eye-witness affirmeth: so the river Dee, in Merionethshire in Wales, running through Pimblemeer remaineth entire, and mingleth not her streams with the waters of the lake. b
a Sir Henry Blunt's Voyage into the Levant, p. 10.
b Mr Fuller's Holy State, p. 162.