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What Does Deuteronomy 3:27 Mean?

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. Pisgah: or, the hill

Context

25

I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

26

But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

27

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. Pisgah: or, the hill

28

But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

29

So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.

Commentary

Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers
(27) **Northward, and southward.**—Southward, literally, *Teman-ward. *The *negeb, *or “south” of Palestine, is not named here.

Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.

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