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申命记 3:25

求你讓我過去,看看約旦河西的美地,就是那美好的山地和黎巴嫩。’

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Lebanon;   Moses;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Lebanon;   Mountains;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;   Lebanon;   Mountains;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lebanon;   Moses;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mount;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beyond the Jordan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lebanon;   Moses;   Prayer;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Moses ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Golgotha;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beyond;   Goodly;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Lebanon;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
求 你 容 我 过 去 , 看 约 但 河 那 边 的 美 地 , 就 是 那 佳 美 的 山 地 和 利 巴 嫩 。

Contextual Overview

21 Then I gave this command to Joshua: "You have seen for yourself all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same thing to all the kingdoms where you are going. 22 Don't be afraid of them, because the Lord your God will fight for you." 23 Then I begged the Lord : 24 "Lord God , you have begun to show me, your servant, how great you are. You have great strength, and no other god in heaven or on earth can do the powerful things you do. There is no other god like you. 25 Please let me cross the Jordan River so that I may see the good land by the Jordan. I want to see the beautiful mountains and Lebanon." 26 But the Lord was angry with me because of you, and he would not listen to me. The Lord said to me, "That's enough. Don't talk to me anymore about it. 27 Climb to the top of Mount Pisgah and look west, north, south, and east. You can look at the land, but you will not cross the Jordan River. 28 Appoint Joshua and help him be brave and strong. He will lead the people across the river and give them the land that they are to inherit, but you can only look at it." 29 So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth Peor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the good land: Deuteronomy 4:21, Deuteronomy 4:22, Deuteronomy 11:11, Deuteronomy 11:12, Exodus 3:8, Numbers 32:5, Ezekiel 20:6

Lebanon: Lebanon is a long chain of limestone mountains, extending from near the coast of the Mediterranean on the west to the plains of Damascus on the east, and forming the extreme northern boundary of the Holy Land. It is divided into two principal ridges, running parallel to each other in a north-north-east direction; the most westerly of which was properly called Libanus, and the easterly Anti-Libanus: the Hebrews did not make this distinction. It is computed to be fifteen or sixteen hundred fathoms in height. They are by no means barren, but are almost all well cultivated and well peopled; their summits being in many parts level, and forming extensive plains, in which are sown corn and all kinds of pulse. Vineyards, and plantations of olive, mulberry, and fig trees, are also cultivated in terraces formed by walls; and the soil of the declivities and hollows is most excellent, and produces abundance of corn, oil, and wine.

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:11 - beyond Jordan Deuteronomy 11:29 - General Joshua 1:4 - From the wilderness Joshua 9:1 - Lebanon Joshua 13:5 - Lebanon 1 Kings 5:9 - Lebanon Song of Solomon 4:8 - from Lebanon Jeremiah 22:6 - unto

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan,.... The land of Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey; a land which he describes as a most excellent one, Deuteronomy 8:7. To see this land, he was very desirous of going over the river Jordan, beyond which it lay with respect to the place where he now was:

that goodly mountain, and Lebanon; or, "that goodly mountain, even Lebanon"; which lay to the north of the land of Canaan, and was famous for cedar and odoriferous trees. But if two distinct mountains are meant, the goodly mountain may design Mount Moriah, on which the temple was afterwards built, and of which Moses might have a foresight; and some by Lebanon think that is meant, which was built of the cedars of Lebanon, and therefore goes by that name, Zechariah 11:1 and a foreview of this made the mountain so precious to Moses, and desirable to be seen by him. So the Targum of Jonathan;

"that goodly mountain in which is built the city of Jerusalem, and Mount Lebanon, in which the Shechinah shall dwell''

to which agrees the note of Aben Ezra, who interprets the goodly mountain of Jerusalem, and Lebanon of the house of the sanctuary. In the Septuagint it is called Antilibanus. Mount Libanus had its name not from frankincense growing upon it, as some have thought; for it does not appear that any did grow upon it, for that came from Seba in Arabia Felix; but from the whiteness of it, through the continual snows that were on it, just as the Alps have their name for the same reason; and so Jerom says b of Lebanon, that the snow never leaves from the tops of it, or is ever so overcome by the heat of the sun as wholly to melt; to the same purpose also Tacitus c says, and Mr. Maundrell d, who was there in May, speaks of deep snow on it, and represents the cedars as standing in snow.

b In Hieremiam, c. 18. 14. c Hist. l. 5. c. 6. d Journey from Aleppo, p. 139, 140.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That goodly mountain - i. e., that mountainous district. The fiat districts of the East are generally scorched, destitute of water, and therefore sterile: the hilly ones, on the contrary, are of more tempered climate, and fertilized by the streams from the high grounds. Compare Deuteronomy 11:11.

The whole of this prayer of Moses is very characteristic. The longing to witness further manifestations of God’s goodness and glory, and the reluctance to leave unfinished an undertaking which he had been permitted to commence, are striking traits in his character: compare Exodus 32:32 ff; Exodus 33:12, Exodus 33:18 ff; Numbers 14:12 ff.


 
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