The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 34:2-4
Unto the utmost sea ; rather, the hinder sea , viz. the Mediterranean (cf. Deuteronomy 11:24 ). The south ; the Negeb, the pasture-land in the south, towards the Arabian desert. The plain of the valley of Jericho ; the extensive plain through which the Jordan flows, extending from Jericho to Zoar, at the south end of the Dead Sea. This wide prospect could not be surveyed by any ordinary power of vision; so that Moses must for the occasion have had his power of vision miraculously... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 34:1-12
The death and burial of Moses. We have in this concluding chapter the remarkable account of the death and burial of Moses. He had, as we have seen, blessed the tribes; he had laid his hands on Joshua (verse 9), and thus ordained him, so to speak, to the leadership; he had given his manuscripts to the priests to be deposited in the ark; and now all that remains for him to do is to take the course God indicated to the mountain-top, see the Promised Land, and die. It has suggested some noble... read more