Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֧ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
servant	עֶֽבֶד 'e.ved-	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָ֛ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
died	וַיָּ֨מָת vai.Ya.mot	H4191	to die (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
land	בְּאֶ֥רֶץ be.'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
Moab	מוֹאָ֖ב mo.'Av	H4124	Moab · proper noun, a place name
word	פִּ֥י pi	H6310	the mouth (as the means of blowing) · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָֽה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title

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

Deuteronomy 32:50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto h…
Joshua 1:1-2 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, sayin…
Hebrews 3:3-6 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
Revelation 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty;…
Numbers 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
Deuteronomy 31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the con…
Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
John 8:35-36 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 34:5-8

Here is, I. The death of Moses (Deu 34:5): Moses the servant of the Lord died. God told him he must not go over Jordan, and, though at first he prayed earnestly for the reversing of the sentence yet God's answer to his prayer sufficed him, and now he spoke no more of that matter, Deu 3:26. Thus our blessed Saviour prayed that the cup might pass from him, yet, since it might not, he acquiesced with, Father, thy will be done. Moses had reason to desire to live a while longer in the world. He was old, it is true, but he had not yet attained to the years of the life of his fathers; his father Amram lived to be 137; his grandfather Kohath 133; his great grandfather Levi 137; Exo 6:16-20. And why…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 34:5

Moses . . . died--After having governed the Israelites forty years.

John Gill on Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab,.... Which formerly belonged to Moab, and was taken from them by Sihon king of the Amorites, and now in the possession of Israel: here on a mountain in this land Moses died; and yet, contrary to the express words of this text, some Jewish writers affirm (w) that be died not, but was translated to heaven, where he ministers; yea, that he was an angel, and could not die: but it is clear he did die, even though a servant of the Lord, as he was, and a faithful one; but such die as well as others, Zechariah 1:5; there is a saying of some (x) Jews,"Moses died, and who shall not die?''no man can promise himself immortality here, when…

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John Calvin on Deuteronomy 34:5-6

So Moses the servant of the Lord died. Since it was mark of ignominy to die without the borders of the Holy Land, Moses is honored with high eulogy, in order that the Israelites might learn the more to tremble at the judgment of God, who did not spare even his most illustrious servant. And it is expressly added, "according to the word (or mouth) of the Lord," lest they should despise the threatenings which were accomplished in so memorable a manner. For, if God spared not His own distinguished Prophet, but at length executed upon him what He had threatened, how should the ordinary multitude escape? What follows, "he buried him," some render passively, "he was buried;" and others transitivel…

The Church Fathers

Moses' death is recorded to have been even more sublime than his life. He died on a mountain peak and left behind neither trace nor memorial of his earthly burden in life. The impress of beauty was not altered by time but remained unchangeable in the changeable nature.
— Gregory of Nyssa, INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PSALMS 1.56

And therefore, we do not read about him as we do about others, because he died in a state of deficiency: but he died through the word of God (Deuteronomy 34:5). For God neither experiences defection or diminution, nor does he undergo addition. Hence, the Scripture also adds: 'For no one knows his burial place until this day' (ibid. 6), so that you understand it as a translation rather than his demise. For death is a certain separation of the soul and body. Therefore, he was dead through the word of God, as Scripture says, not according to the flesh; so that you may observe not the message of death, but the gift of grace expressed, who was transferred rather than abandoned, of whom no one knows the burial.
— Ambrose of Milan, On Cain and Abel, Book 1, Chapter 2, Section 8

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Dictionary and topics

Burial — The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron “four…
Deuteronomy — In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q.v.) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and _sedarim. It is not easy to say when it was divided into…
Moab — The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam.…
Death Of Saints, The · Exemplified: Moses — Exemplified: Moses
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · Moses dies and is buried — Moses dies and is buried

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).

Deuteronomy 34:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 34:5-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 34:5

John Gill on Deuteronomy 34:5

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 34:5-6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 34:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 34:5-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 34:5

John Gill on Deuteronomy 34:5

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 34:5-6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 34:5-6

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 34:3

Rashi on Deuteronomy 34:5