The Book of Deuteronomy - Preparation for the Promised Land. Kenneth B. Alexander Alexander

and see the Promised Land. “Let me, I pray, cross over and see the fair land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’ “But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me; and the LORD said to me, ‘Enough! Speak to Me no more of this matter. ‘Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west and north and south and east, and see it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan. ‘But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he shall give them as an inheritance the land which you will see” (Dt 3:25-28).

      The recitation of history over Israel is now urged to obey God’s Laws. “AND now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, in order that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you” (Dt 4:1-2). Thus ends Moses first discourse, the review of the desert wanderings.

[iv]

      Easton, M.G.: Easton's Bible Dictionary. Oak Harbor, WA : Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1996, c1897

[v]

       Merrill, E. H. (1994). Vol. 4: Deuteronomy. The New American Commentary (73). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

[vi] Deuteronomy. 1909 (H. D. M. Spence-Jones, Ed.). The Pulpit Commentary (19). London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

[vii] Wood, D. R. W. ; Marshall, I. Howard: New Bible Dictionary. 3rd ed. Leicester, England; Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 1996, S. 1229

[viii] Deuteronomy. 1909 (H. D. M. Spence-Jones, Ed.). The Pulpit Commentary (21–22). London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

Second Address of Moses