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申命記 33:1
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the blessing: Genesis 27:4, Genesis 27:27-29, Genesis 49:1, Genesis 49:28, Luke 24:50, Luke 24:51, John 14:27, John 16:33
the man: Joshua 14:6, Judges 13:6, 1 Samuel 2:27, 1 Samuel 9:6, 1 Samuel 9:7, 1 Kings 13:1, 1 Kings 13:6, Psalms 90:1, *title 1 Timothy 6:11, 2 Timothy 3:17, 2 Peter 1:21
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:7 - before the Genesis 28:1 - blessed Genesis 35:22 - Now the sons Genesis 47:10 - General Genesis 48:9 - bless them Genesis 48:15 - blessed Genesis 49:25 - the God Numbers 1:5 - Elizur Numbers 6:23 - General Joshua 1:1 - the death 2 Samuel 23:1 - the last 1 Kings 2:1 - the days 1 Kings 8:53 - as thou 1 Kings 12:22 - General 2 Kings 4:9 - man of God 2 Kings 4:40 - O thou 2 Kings 8:7 - General 1 Chronicles 23:14 - the man 2 Chronicles 8:14 - so had David the man of God commanded 2 Chronicles 11:2 - the man 2 Chronicles 30:16 - Moses Nehemiah 12:24 - the man Jeremiah 35:4 - a man
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. Namely, what is related in the following verses, this being the general title to the chapter: Moses is called "the man of God", being raised up of God, and eminently qualified by him with girls for the work he was called unto, and by whom he was inspired to say what is after expressed: it is a title given to prophets, 1 Samuel 9:6; and so Onkelos here paraphrases it,
"Moses the prophet of the Lord,''
and Aben Ezra observes, that this is said to show that he blessed Israel by a spirit of prophecy, and which he did a little before his death, when very near it; and, as the same writer says, on the very day of his death.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The title “the man of God” in the Old Testament is one who is favored with direct revelations, but not necessarily an official prophet. The occurrence of the title here is no doubt a token that the Blessing was not, as was the Song, transcribed by Moses himself. Compare Deuteronomy 31:27.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXXIII
Moses delivers a prophetical blessing to the children of
Israel, 1.
The introduction, 2-5.
Prophetic declarations concerning Reuben, 6;
concerning Judah, 7;
concerning Levi, 8-11;
concerning Benjamin, 12;
concerning Joseph, 13-17;
concerning Zebulun, 18, 19;
concerning Gad, 20, 21;
concerning Dan, 22;
concerning Naphtali, 23;
concerning Asher, 24, 25.
The glory of the God of Jeshurun, and the glorious privileges
of his true followers, 26-29.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIII
Verse Deuteronomy 33:1. And this is the blessing wherewith Moses - blessed, c.] The general nature of this solemn introduction, says Dr. Kennicott, is to show the foundation which Moses had for blessing his brethren, viz., because God had frequently manifested his glory in their behalf and the several parts of this introduction are disposed in the following order: -
1. The manifestation of the Divine glory on Sinai, as it was prior in time and more magnificent in splendour, is mentioned first.
2. That God manifested his glory at Seir is evident from Judges 5:4: Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the fields of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, c.
3. The next place is Paran, where the glory of the Lord appeared before all the children of Israel, Numbers 14:10.
Instead of he came with ten thousand saints, by which our translators have rendered מרבבת קדש meribeboth kodesh, Dr. Kennicott reads Meribah-Kadesh, the name of a place: for we find that, towards the end of forty years, the Israelites came to Kadesh, Numbers 20:1, which was also called Meribah, on account of their contentious opposition to the determinations of God in their favour, Numbers 20:13 and there the glory of the Lord again appeared, as we are informed Numbers 20:6. These four places, Sinai, Seir, Paran, and Meribah-Kadesh, mentioned by Moses in the text, are the identical places where God manifested his glory in a fiery appearance, the more illustriously to proclaim his special providence over and care of Israel.