benediction · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
Moses
מֹשֶׁ֛הmo.Sheh
H4872
Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
man
אִ֥ישׁ'ish
H376
a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular construct
God
הָאֱלֹהִ֖יםha.'E.lo.Him
H430
gods in the ordinary sense · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
blessed
בֵּרַ֥ךְbe.Rakh
H1288
to kneel · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
children
בְּנֵ֣יbe.Nei
H1121
a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'El
H3478
Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
before
לִפְנֵ֖יlif.Nei
H6440
the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct
death
מוֹתֽוֹmo.To
H4194
death (natural or violent) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Joshua 14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing tha…
Genesis 27:4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis 27:27-29 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the sme…
Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Genesis 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his bl…
Judges 13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God…
1 Samuel 2:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they w…
1 Samuel 9:6-7 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass:…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 33:1-5
The first verse is the title of the chapter: it is a blessing. In the foregoing chapter he had thundered out the terrors of the Lord against Israel for their sin; it was a chapter like Ezekiel's roll, full of lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Now to soften that, and that he might not seem to part in anger, he here subjoins a blessing, and leaves his peace, which should descend and rest upon all those among them that were the sons of peace. Thus Christ's last work on earth was to bless his disciples (Luk 24:50), like Moses here, in token of parting as friends. Moses blessed them, 1. As a prophet - a man of God. Note, It is a very desirable thing to have an interest in the prayers of those t…
And this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. Namely, what is related in the following verses, this being the general title to the chapter: Moses is called "the man of God", being raised up of God, and eminently qualified by him with girls for the work he was called unto, and by whom he was inspired to say what is after expressed: it is a title given to prophets, 1 Samuel 9:6; and so Onkelos here paraphrases it,"Moses the prophet of the Lord,''and Aben Ezra observes, that this is said to show that he blessed Israel by a spirit of prophecy, and which he did a little before his death, when very near it; and, as the same writer says, on…
And this is the blessing. The bitterness of the Song was seasoned, [304] as it were, by this palliative, wherein Moses left a testimony with respect to God's future and perpetual grace, as if depositing an inestimable treasure in the hands of the people. For, as God, after the deliverance of His people, and the giving of the Law, renewed the covenant which Jacob had testified of and proclaimed, so Moses was, as it were, their second father, to ratify anew its blessings, lest the memory of them should ever be lost.
In order to beget confidence in his benedictions, he commences by magnifying his vocation before he proceeds to them; for, although the word benediction is equivalent to a prayer…
The Church Fathers
And this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before they died. And he said: "The Lord has come from Sinai, and it has been shown to us from Seir. It has been hurried from Mount Farán with many thousands of Kadesh. On his right there are angels with him; and he forgave his people; and all the sanctified ones are under your hands and these are under you. And he took from his words the law, which Moses commanded us, inheritance for the assemblies of Jacob. And there will be a prince in the beloved, once the princes of the peoples gathered together with the tribes of Israel. " Do not overlook or neglect this prophecy. It is seen that this blessing refers to the new people, which Christ the Lord sanctified, and from whose person Moses says these things, not from Moses himself. And all this is evident from what is said below. If it is said: The Lord has come from Sinai, because on Mount Sinai the law was given, what does it mean next: And it has been shown to us from Seir, being that Seir is a mount of Idumea, where Did Esau reign? On the other hand, since Moses blesses the children of Israel with these words, as the Scripture predicts, how does Moses say: And he took from his words the law, which Moses commanded us? It is, without a doubt, a prophecy, as we have said, that announces in advance a new people sanctified by the grace of Christ under the name of the children of Israel, because this people is a descendant of Abraham, that is, they are the children of the promise. And it means "seeing God." Therefore, in the Lord, who has come from Sinai, one must see Christ, because Sinai means trial. Christ has come from the test of passion, of the cross, of death. And it has been shown to us since Seír. Seír means "hairy," and designates the sinner. That is how Esau, the abhorred, was born (Cf Gn 25,25). But as those who were sitting in the darkness and in the shadow of death a light appeared to them (Cf Is 9,2), that is why it appeared from Seir. At the same time, it is not absurd not to understand that it was predicted that the grace of Christ would come to the people of Israel from the Gentiles, meaning by the name of Seir, because it is a mountain belonging to Esau. That is why the Apostle says: So also they did not now believe in the mercy granted to you so that they too may obtain mercy (Rm 11,31). They say: It has…
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Dictionary and topics
Bless — (1.) God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen. 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps. 45:2; 104:24, 35). (2.) We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps.…
Moses — Drawn (or Egypt. mesu, “son;” hence Rameses, royal son). On the invitation of Pharaoh (Gen. 45:17-25), Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt. This immigration took place probably about 350 years…
Simeon, The tribe of — Was “divided and scattered” according to the prediction in Gen. 49:5-7. They gradually dwindled in number, and sank into a position of insignificance among the other tribes. They decreased in the…
Minister, Christian · .MEN OF GOD — .MEN OF GOD
Titles And Names Of Saints · Men of God — Men of God
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
Before ascending Mount Nebo to depart this life, Moses took leave of his people, the tribes of Israel, in the blessing which is very fittingly inserted in the book of the law between the divine announcement of his approaching death and the account of the death itself, as being the last words of the departing man of God. The blessing opens with an allusion to the solemn conclusion of the covenant and giving of the law at Sinai, by which the Lord became King of Israel, to indicate at the outset the source from which all blessings must flow to Israel (Deu 33:2-5). Then follow the separate blessings upon the different tribes (vv. 6-25). And the whole concludes with an utterance of praise to the…
On the eve of his death, Jacob blessed his twelve sons (Gen 49:1-28). As the founding father of his nation, Moses blessed these same sons, now grown into mighty tribes.
Rashi on Deuteronomy 33:1
וזאת הברכה … לפני מותו AND THIS IS THE BLESSING [WHEREWITH MOSES … BLESSED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL] BEFORE HIS DEATH — i.e., quite near to his death. “For” said he, “if not now, when?” (Sifrei Devarim 342:7).
