The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9
The blessing of Moses over the twelve tribes in chapter 33 mirrors Jacob's blessing of his sons in Genesis 49. The two great patriarchs of Israel's history close their lives in the same posture: speaking over the covenant people the future that God has shown them. Tribe by tribe Moses speaks: Reuben's survival, Judah's battle-strength, Levi's priestly calling, Benjamin's protection, Joseph's abundant blessing, Zebulun and Issachar's coastal wealth, Gad's lion-likeness, Dan's leap, Naphtali's fullness, Asher's olive oil.
And then the concluding doxology, not tribe-specific but encompassing: there is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to help you, the skies in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms. Me'onah Elohei qedem. Zero'ot olam. The dwelling-refuge and the arms of eternity.
Thread 1 is in the zero'ot olam: the everlasting arms. The image is of the arms that are always beneath, always bearing up, always there in the position of support. The reaching God reaches even from below, carrying the weight that the people cannot carry. Moses ends his farewell with this image.
Chapter 34 is the death of Moses. He goes up to Nebo. He sees the whole land, from Dan to Negeb, from the sea to the Jordan valley, in a panoramic divine vision. He sees what he will not enter. And then: Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him, vayyiqbor oto. The subject is the LORD himself; God buried Moses in a valley whose location no one knows.
And there has not arisen since in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. The Mosaic dispensation closes with this eulogy: no one before, no one since, until the one who was the greater Moses that Deuteronomy 18:15 promised. Thread 5 is the closing of an era. Thread 4 is the face-to-face knowing that Moses's life of genuine response produced.
The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: the closing benediction of Moses over the twelve tribes before his death; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day: Moses dies and is buried by God himself and the grave is hidden; the closing of an era.
מְעֹנָה אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם וּמִתַּחַת זְרֹעֹת עוֹלָם (me'onah Elohei qedem u-mi-tachat zero'ot olam): the eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms: me'onah (dwelling, refuge, lair, from the same root as ma'on in Psalm 90:1 where Moses wrote Lord thou hast been our dwelling place; Moses closes Deuteronomy with the same dwelling-language he opened his wilderness psalm with); zero'ot olam (the arms of eternity, zero'ot, arms, the outstretched arms of strength and support; olam, the age, eternity; Thread 1: the reaching arms beneath, always there)
threads t1 · t2 · t4 · see Genesis 49:1-28 · Psalm 90:1 · Jude 9