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John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 3:27
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, etc.] Which was the highest eminence of Mount Nebo, and so a very proper place to take a prospect from; (see <053249>Deuteronomy 32:49 34:1) and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward; to all the four points of the heaven, and to all the four quarters and borders of the land of Canaan: and behold it with thine eyes; even the land of Canaan, and particularly Lebanon, though it lay to the north of it, that mountain he had such a desire to see. Moses, though old, his natural sight was very strong, and not in the least dim; and it is not improbable that it might be more than ordinarily increased and assisted at this time: for thou shall not go over this Jordan; into the land of Canaan; this affair, of not being suffered to enter there, Moses frequently takes notice of, no less than four or five times, it being what lay near his heart.
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