Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 34:11
In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
11, 12. These vv. are irrelevant to the more spiritual estimate of Moses’ prophetic rank in Deu 34:10, and therefore may be due to a later hand. On the deuteronomic phrases signs and wonders, mighty hand, great terror, see Deu 4:34, and on all Israel (not P’s children of Israel), see Deu 4:44, Deu 31:23. Thus the Book closes in characteristically deuteronomic style.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
In all the signs: this is to be joined, either,
1. With the words immediately foregoing, as an eminent instance wherein God did know or acknowledge and own or converse so familiarly with Moses, namely, in the working of all his signs and wonders in Egypt, where God spake to him so oft, and sometimes even in Pharaohs presence, and answered his requests so particularly and punctually, whether he called for vengeance or for deliverance. Or,
2. With the more remote words, there was none like unto Moses in regard of all the signs, &c., the words, whom the Lord knew face to face, coming in by way of parenthesis.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
In all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to do,…. The same Targums also paraphrase here,
“which the Word of the Lord sent him to do;”
for he it was that appeared to him in the bush, and sent him to Egypt to work miracles, which he did by him:
in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; to whom they were visible, and who were all affected by them more or less: this respects chiefly the ten plagues inflicted on the Egyptians: the Jews observe that the superior excellency of Moses to the rest of the prophets lay chiefly in his superior degree of prophecy rather than in miracles, and not so much in the nature or the quality of the miracles; the stopping of the sun by Joshua, and the raising of the dead to life by Elijah and Elisha, being greater than his; but either in the duration of them, as the manna which continued near forty years; or especially in the quantity of them, he working more than all the rest put together: Manasseh Ben Israel u has collected all that the prophets wrought or were wrought for their sakes, and they came to seventy four; but those that were wrought by Moses or on his account make seventy six; but whether this is a just account I will not say.
u Conciliator in Deut. Qu. 11. sect. 4. p. 238, 239, 240.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Deu 34:11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Ver. 11. In all the signs. ] Here endeth the Pentateuch, which comprehendeth the history of 2552 years and a half, from the beginning of the world; and is all (as some hold) that was translated by the Septuagint. a
a Schickard.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
In all the signs: Rather, “with respect to all the signs and wonders,” etc. Deu 4:34, Deu 7:19, Psa 78:43-58, Psa 105:26-38
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 34:11-12. In all the signs, &c. In these also Moses excelled all the prophets, doing more miracles than any, yea, than all that succeeded him. But the prophet whom God raised up like unto Moses in the latter days, not only equalled, but exceeded him in this, as well as in every other respect. Which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel Moses wrought all his miracles publicly, the whole congregation being witnesses of them. But Moses was greater than any of the prophets of the Old Testament in another most important respect. By him God gave the law, and moulded and formed the Jewish Church; whereas, by the other prophets he only sent particular reproofs, directions, and predictions. But as far as the other prophets came short of him, our Lord Jesus went beyond him. Moses was faithful as a servant, but Christ as a son: Christs miracles were more illustrious, his communion with the Father more intimate: for he was in his bosom from eternity. Moses lies buried: but Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. and of the increase of his government there shall be no end. And thus, with the death of this eminent prophet and lawgiver, endeth the Pentateuch, containing the sacred history of the world, and of the Abrahamic family in particular, for the first two thousand five hundred and fifty-three years, namely, from the creation to the arrival of the Israelites in the land of Canaan.