Numbers 27:12-14 And the LORD said to Moses, Get you up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.… Moses must die, but only as Aaron died before him (ver. 13); and Moses had seen how easily and cheerfully Aaron had put off the priesthood first, and then the body. Let not Moses, therefore, be afraid of dying; it was but to be "gathered to his people," as Aaron was gathered. Thus the death of our near and dear relations should be improved by us. 1. As an engagement to us to think often of dying. We are not better than our fathers or brethren; if they are gone, we are going; if they are gathered already, we must be gathered very shortly. 2. As an encouragement to us to think of death without terror, and even to please ourselves with the thoughts of it, it is but to die as such and such died, if we lived as they lived, and their end was peace; they "finished their course with joy"; why, then, should we fear any evil in that melancholy valley? ( Matthew Henry, D. D..) Parallel Verses KJV: And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. |
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