Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 34:8

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended.

8. the children of Israel wept thirty days ] So P, Num 20:29, of Aaron; plains of Moab again ‘arbth Mo’ab, see Deu 34:1.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Thirty days was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminency. See Gen 1:3,10; Num 20:29. For others seven days sufficed.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

8. wept for Moses . . . thirtydaysSeven days was the usual period of mourning, but forpersons in high rank or official eminence, it was extended to thirty(Gen 50:3-10; Num 20:29).

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days,…. According both to Josephus n and the Samaritan Chronicle o, they cried and wept in a very vehement manner, when he signified to them his approaching death, and took his leave of them; and when he was dead they mourned for him, in a public manner, the space of time here mentioned, the time of mourning for his brother Aaron, Nu 20:29;

so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended; on the eighth of Nisan or March, as says the Targum of Jonathan, and on the “ninth” they prepared their vessels and their cattle for a march, and on the tenth passed over Jordan, and on the “sixteenth” the manna ceased, according to the said paraphrase.

n Ut supra. (De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 49.) o Apud Hottinger, p. 456.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Verse 8:

Israel observed a mourning period of thirty days for Moses, following his death, as they had done for Aaron, see Num 20:29.

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

(8) The children of Israel wept for Moses . . . thirty days . . .As they did for Aaron, his brother (Num. 20:29). It is remarkable that the burial and the tomb of Aaron are only alluded to in Deu. 10:6. (See Note and Excursus on that passage.) Miriam was buried in Kadesh (Num. 20:1).

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

8. The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days So “they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.” Num 20:29.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The mourning of Israel for Moses, was decent and proper. We are not commanded to refrain from mourning, only we are not to sorrow as without hope. Oh! what a difference hath the death and resurrection of JESUS put in the circumstances of death! To true believers in CHRIST, our charnel-house is but our chamber-house, whither we retire after the example of the LORD JESUS, to rest the wearied limbs of mortality. And what a sweet perfume hath his sacred body given to the dust of death! Reader! never forget that the first clear and distinct views of the future mansions of the blessed, were seen from the tomb of JESUS. Joh 20:17 .

Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

Deu 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended.

Ver. 8. And the children of Israel wept. ] And were ready to wish, likely, as the Romans did for Augustus, that either he had never been born, or never died.

Thirty days. ] As before they had done for Aaron. Num 20:29 The Jewish doctors tell us that Moses was born on the seventh day of the month Adar (which answereth to our February), and that on the seventh day of the same month Adar he was taken out of the world, being exactly 120 years old. One third part of his days he spent in Egypt, another in Midian, and the last in conducting this people to the borders of Canaan, as Josephus a well observeth. The Jews to this day keep a solemn fast on the seventh of Adar, in remembrance of his death.

a Antiq., lib. iv. ad fin.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

children = sons.

thirty days. The mourning lasted from thirtieth day of the eleventh month (Sebat) till the twenty-ninth (and last) day of the twelfth month (Adar). See App-51. Thus the forty years were completed: from 1st Abib, 1491., See App-50.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

wept for Moses: Gen 50:3, Gen 50:10, Num 20:29, 1Sa 25:1, Isa 57:1, Act 8:2

Reciprocal: Gen 23:2 – mourn Gen 27:41 – The days Num 22:1 – the children Num 26:3 – General 2Ch 32:33 – did him

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deu 34:8. Thirty days Which was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminence. It is a debt owing to the surviving honour of deceased worthies, to follow them with our tears, as those who loved and valued them, are sensible of the loss of them, and humbled for the sins which have provoked God to deprive us of them.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments