Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
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Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
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Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
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Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes; for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
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- Numbers 27:12 Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 34:1-4 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea, and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar. Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
- Genesis 13:14-15 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain As before he saw by the spirits of prophecy…
As before he saw by the spirits of prophecy the good mountain which was Zion: so here his eyes were lifted up above the order of nature to behold all the plentiful land of Canaan.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Pisgah; of which see on Num 27:12. Lift up…
Pisgah; of which see on Num 27:12. Lift up thine eyes towards the land of Canaan and its several quarters.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him,....…
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him,.... Charge him to take the care of the children of Israel, to introduce them into the good land, and put them into the possession of it; encourage him against all fear of his and their enemies, and strengthen him with promises of the presence of God, and of his gracious help and assistance:
for he shall go over before this people; over the river Jordan, at the head of them, as their leader and commander; a type of Christ, the leader and commander of his people, who as their King goes forth at the head of them, and will introduce them all into his Father's kingdom and glory:
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and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see; and no more; not enter into, but Joshua should; and having conquered it, should divide it by lot for an inheritance to them, and their children after them; a type of Christ, in whom and by whom the saints obtain an inheritance by lot, Eph 1:11.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain East. It seems, if Phasga was the eastern boundary…
East. It seems, if Phasga was the eastern boundary of Ruben, (ver. 17,) there was no occasion for Moses to cast his eyes that way. He is ordered to take a full view of the countries allotted by God to the Hebrews; and if we consider that the territory, as far as the Euphrates, was promised to them, if they would continue to be faithful, and that it was made tributary, under Solomon, we need not wonder if Moses should be pleased to behold it, chap. i. 7. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. the top of Pisgah] Rather, the headland of…
27. the top of Pisgah] Rather, the headland of the Pisgah. See on Deu_3:17, and cp. Deu_32:48 ff., Deu_34:1, and small print on Deu_12:2.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) Northward, and southward.—Southward, literally, Teman-ward. The negeb, or…
(27) Northward, and southward.—Southward, literally, Teman-ward. The negeb, or “south” of Palestine, is not named here.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Comp. Num_27:12, of which this is a rhetorical amplification.…
Comp. Num_27:12, of which this is a rhetorical amplification. There the mountains of Abarim are mentioned; here Pisgah, the northern portion of that range, is specified. The top of Pisgah; i.e. Mount Nebo. (Deu_34:1) Westward; literally, seaward, i.e. towards the Mediterranean; northward (wOpx; hidden or dark place, where darkness gathers, as opposed to the bright and sunny south); southward, towards the right-hand quarter; (myTe from ymiy; the right hand; cf. Exo_26:18, "to the south towards the right hand eastward, towards the dawn or sun rising; cf. mi, Deu_4:47 (jrz from jrz; to shine forth).
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