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Text -- Deuteronomy 34:10 (NET)

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34:10 No prophet ever again arose in Israel like Moses, who knew the Lord face to face.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law


Dictionary Themes and Topics: REVELATION, 3-4 | Prophets | Prophet | PROPHECY; PROPHETS, 2 | PRAYER | PENTATEUCH, 2A | Moses | Israel | Divination | DEUTERONOMY | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Deu 34:10 - -- Whom God did so freely and familiarly converse with.

Whom God did so freely and familiarly converse with.

JFB: Deu 34:10-12 - -- In whatever light we view this extraordinary man, the eulogy pronounced in these inspired words will appear just. No Hebrew prophet or ruler equalled ...

In whatever light we view this extraordinary man, the eulogy pronounced in these inspired words will appear just. No Hebrew prophet or ruler equalled him in character or official dignity, or in knowledge of God's will and opportunities of announcing it.

Clarke: Deu 34:10 - -- There arose not a prophet, etc. - Among all the succeeding prophets none was found so eminent in all respects nor so highly privileged as Moses; wit...

There arose not a prophet, etc. - Among all the succeeding prophets none was found so eminent in all respects nor so highly privileged as Moses; with him God spoke face to face - admitted him to the closest familiarity and greatest friendship with himself. Now all this continued true till the advent of Jesus Christ, of whom Moses said, "A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me;"but how great was this person when compared with Moses! Moses desired to see God’ s glory; this sight he could not bear; he saw his back parts, probably meaning God’ s design relative to the latter days: but Jesus, the Almighty Savior, in whom dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, who lay in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared God to man. Wondrous system of legal ordinances that pointed out and typified all these things! And more wonderful system of Gospel salvation, which is the body, soul, life, energy, and full accomplishment of all that was written in the Law, in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning the sufferings and death of Jesus, and the redemption of a ruined world "by his agony and bloody sweat, by his cross and passion, by his death and burial, by his glorious resurrection and ascension, and by the coming of the Holy Ghost!"Thus ends the Pentateuch, commonly called the Law of Moses, a work every way worthy of God its author, and only less than the New Covenant, the law and Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Now to the ever blessed and glorious Trinity, Father, Word, and Spirit, the infinite and eternal One, from whom alone wisdom, truth, and goodness can proceed, be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen

Calvin: Deu 34:10 - -- 10.And there arose not a prophet This eulogy seems to have been added, that the children of Abraham might place dependence on Moses until the manifes...

10.And there arose not a prophet This eulogy seems to have been added, that the children of Abraham might place dependence on Moses until the manifestation of Christ; for although prophets were from time to time raised up, still it was fitting that the superiority should remain with Moses, lest they should decline in the smallest degree from the rule of the Law. It must be concluded, therefore, that Moses was here placed in a position of supremacy, so as to be superior to all the prophets; as also Malachi (Mal 4:4) exhorts the ancient people, in order that they may continue obedient to the law of Moses. Two signs of his excellency are here recorded, namely, his familiar acquaintance with God, and the glory of his miracles. We have elsewhere seen that, by this prerogative, Moses was distinguished from the other prophets, that God spake to him face to face. For, although Jacob makes the same declaration respecting himself, still we know that God was more intimately revealed afterwards to Moses; not indeed that He beheld His glory in its perfection, but because, in comparison with others, he went beyond them all. As regards miracles, though they were wrought by others, still none of them came near to Moses in their performance.

END OF COMMENTARIES ON THE FOUR LAST BOOKS OF MOSES, IN THE FORM OF A HARMONY.

TSK: Deu 34:10 - -- there arose : Deu 18:15-18; Act 3:22, Act 3:23, Act 7:37; Heb 3:5, Heb 3:6 the Lord : Deu 5:4, Deu 5:5; Exo 33:11; Num 12:6-8

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Deu 34:10 - -- There arose not a prophet since in Israel - Words like these can only have been written some time, but not necessarily a long time, after the d...

There arose not a prophet since in Israel - Words like these can only have been written some time, but not necessarily a long time, after the death of Moses. They refer more particularly to the wonders performed by the hand of Moses at the exodus and in the desert; and do but re-echo the declaration of God Himself (Num 12:6 ff). They may naturally enough be attributed to one of Moses’ successors, writing perhaps soon after the settlement of the people in Canaan.

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Poole: Deu 34:10 - -- Like unto Moses in the privileges here following. Whom the Lord knew face to face i.e. whom God did so freely, and familiarly, and frequently conve...

Like unto Moses in the privileges here following.

Whom the Lord knew face to face i.e. whom God did so freely, and familiarly, and frequently converse with. See Poole "Exo 33:11" . See Poole "Num 12:8" . See Poole "Deu 5:4" .

Haydock: Deu 34:10 - -- Moses. No prophet ever appeared with greater dignity, in the old law, than Moses. He behaved in all respects as the envoy of God, who has been plea...

Moses. No prophet ever appeared with greater dignity, in the old law, than Moses. He behaved in all respects as the envoy of God, who has been pleased to give his character and eulogium, Numbers xii. 6., and Ecclesiasticus xlv. 1. His miracles were most astonishing, performed in the presence both of friends and of enemies, not for a short time, but for a continuance of many years. (Calmet) ---

But when we compare Moses with the Messias, his person and law must be regarded indeed as illustrious figures, but infinitely beneath the reality. Moses was liable to failings, which caused him to be debarred from entering the land of promise; and he wore a veil, to shew that his law was only a shadow of the better, and that it could bring nothing to perfection. He works miracles in the name of the Lord, and with a rod: Jesus performs all by the word of his own power, (Hebrews i. 3) as the sovereign of the world. But though Moses must sink in a comparison with Christ, yet no other personage sustained a more exalted character, or shone with greater splendour, as lawgiver, priest, prophet, ruler of a great and ungovernable people, and a sacred writer of the highest antiquity. Hence the Jews almost adore him. The Mahometans place him next to Jesus and their false prophet. (Haydock) ---

The pagans have very probably ascribed many parts of his history to their idols, Bacchus, Mercury, and Typhon; and their greatest philosophers, Pythagoras, Plato, &c., have borrowed many things from his writings. "What, said Numenius, is Plato, but Moses in the Attic language?" See Exodus xxxiv. 29.; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1. and 5.; Josephus, contra Apion i.; Bochart, &c. (Calmet) ---

In a word, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Ambrose, (de Cain 2,) and Philo, represent Moses as the most perfect example of a great and pious leader and legislator. (Salien, in the year of the world 2583.) (Haydock)

Gill: Deu 34:10 - -- And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,.... Not in the times of Joshua, who wrote this chapter, at least the last eight verses,...

And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,.... Not in the times of Joshua, who wrote this chapter, at least the last eight verses, Deu 34:5, as say the Jews p; nor to the times of Samuel, whom others take to be the writer: of them; nor to the times of Ezra, as others; nor even throughout the whole Old Testament dispensation to the times of Christ, the great Prophet, like to Moses, that was to arise; and the Messiah is by the Jews owned, as by Maimonides q, to be equal to him, and by others to be above him: it is a well known saying of theirs r, that"the Messiah shall be exalted above Abraham, and extolled above Moses, and made higher than the ministering: angels;''but as to all other prophets he excels them, and therefore they call him the prince, master, and Father of the prophets, and say, that all prophesied from the fountain of his prophecy s: the difference between him and them is observed, by Maimonides t to lie in many things; as that they prophesied by a dream or vision, but he awake and seeing; they prophesied by the means of an angel, and saw what they did in parables and dark sayings; but Moses not by means of an angel, but the Lord spake to him face to face; they trembled and astonished, but not so Moses; they could not prophesy when they would, but he at any time, nor did he need to dispose and prepare his mind for it; some of which will not hold good, especially the last; the instances in which he really exceeded them follow:

whom the Lord knew face to face; owned, took notice of, and familiarly conversed with face to face, as a man with his friend; none were permitted to such familiarity with God as he; see Num 12:6; the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem paraphrase it,

"whom the Word of the Lord knew.''

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 34:10 See Num 12:8; Deut 18:15-18.

Geneva Bible: Deu 34:10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew ( f ) face to face, ( f ) To whom the Lord revealed himself so plai...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Deu 34:1-12 - --1 Moses from mount Nebo views the land.5 He dies there.6 His burial.7 His age.8 Thirty days' mourning for him9 Joshua succeeds him.10 The praise of Mo...

MHCC: Deu 34:9-12 - --Moses brought Israel to the borders of Canaan, and then died and left them. This signifies that the law made nothing perfect, Heb 7:19 It brings men i...

Matthew Henry: Deu 34:9-12 - -- We have here a very honourable encomium passed both on Moses and Joshua; each has his praise, and should have. It is ungrateful so to magnify our li...

Keil-Delitzsch: Deu 34:9-12 - -- Joshua now took Moses' place as the leader of the people, filled with the spirit of wisdom (practical wisdom, manifesting itself in action), because...

Constable: Deu 31:1--34:12 - --VII. MOSES' LAST ACTS chs. 31--34 Having completed the major addresses to the Israelites recorded to this point ...

Constable: Deu 34:1-12 - --E. Moses' death and burial: narrative epilogue ch. 34 "A testament is of force only after the death of t...

Guzik: Deu 34:1-12 - --Deuteronomy 34 - The Death of Moses A. Moses on Mount Nebo. 1. (1-3) The vision of the Promised Land. Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab t...

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Commentary -- Other

Critics Ask: Deu 34:10 DEUTERONOMY 34:10 —Was Moses unparalleled among prophets or were others equal to him? PROBLEM: This text claims that “since then there has no...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the for...

JFB: Deuteronomy (Outline) MOSES' SPEECH AT THE END OF THE FORTIETH YEAR. (Deu. 1:1-46) THE STORY IS CONTINUED. (Deu. 2:1-37) CONQUEST OF OG, KING OF BASHAN. (Deu. 3:1-20) AN E...

TSK: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) The book of Deuteronomy marks the end of the Pentateuch, commonly called the Law of Moses; a work every way worthy of God its author, and only less th...

TSK: Deuteronomy 34 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Deu 34:1, Moses from mount Nebo views the land; Deu 34:5, He dies there; Deu 34:6, His burial; Deu 34:7, His age; Deu 34:8, Thirty days�...

Poole: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) FIFTH BOOK of MOSES, CALLED DEUTERONOMY THE ARGUMENT Moses, in the two last months of his life, rehearseth what God had done for them, and their ...

Poole: Deuteronomy 34 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 34 Moses from Mount Nebo vieweth the land, Deu 34:1-4 . He dieth there, Deu 34:5 . His burial, Deu 34:6 . His age, Deu 34:7 . Thirty days&#...

MHCC: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) This book repeats much of the history and of the laws contained in the three foregoing books: Moses delivered it to Israel a little before his death, ...

MHCC: Deuteronomy 34 (Chapter Introduction) (Deu 34:1-4) Moses views the promised land from mount Nebo. (Deu 34:5-8) The death and burial of Moses, The mourning of the people. (Deu 34:9-12) Jo...

Matthew Henry: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy This book is a repetition of very much both of the history ...

Matthew Henry: Deuteronomy 34 (Chapter Introduction) Having read how Moses finished his testimony, we are told here how he immediately after finished his life. This chapter could not be written by Mos...

Constable: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible was its first two words,...

Constable: Deuteronomy (Outline) Outline I. Introduction: the covenant setting 1:1-5 II. Moses' first major address: a review...

Constable: Deuteronomy Deuteronomy Bibliography Adams, Jay. Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyt...

Haydock: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION. THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. This Book is called Deuteronomy, which signifies a second law , because it repeats and inculcates the ...

Gill: Deuteronomy (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY This book is sometimes called "Elleh hadebarim", from the words with which it begins; and sometimes by the Jews "Mishne...

Gill: Deuteronomy 34 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 34 This chapter informs us of Moses going up to the top of Pisgah, where he was shown the whole land of Canaan, Deu 34:...

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