Deuteronomy 3:25

Translations

Modern

Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

Traditional

I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

Literal

Let me pass over, please, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, this pleasant hill country, and Lebanon.”

Latin

Transibo igitur, et videbo terram hanc optimam trans Jordanem, et montem istum egregium, et Libanum.

Original

Hebrew

English

Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

Notes

Deuteronomy 3:21–29

See Numbers 20:2–13 and Psalm 106:32–33.

Deuteronomy 1:6–4:40

Secular treaties (formal agreements between nations) often included a section about the past relationship between the two partners. This section reviewed what had happened before the agreement.

In this case, the purpose was to review Israel’s successes and failures since the exodus from Egypt. It reminded the people that God had kept his word, even when they did not obey him.

To prepare the Israelites for life in Canaan, Moses reminded them about life in Egypt, their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and their past mistakes. He warned them to obey God's covenant. He assured them that God's grace would follow them as they learned to trust and obey the Lord.

Related verses

Deuteronomy 4:21–22
The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 11:11–12
But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
Numbers 32:5
“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

Parallels

Numbers 27:12–17

Places

Jordan: A river and region, significant in Israel's history Lebanon: A mountainous region known for its cedar trees

Glossary

Archaeology and the Bible Deuteronomy, Book of Numbers, Book of Transjordan Tribe of Dan

Topics

Holy Land: Called: Good Land Lebanon: Called: That Goodly Mountain Lebanon: Moses Anxious to Behold Lebanon: Northern Boundary of the Land of Canaan Moses: Not Permitted to Enter Canaan, but Views the Land from Atop Mount Pisgah Mountains: Lebanon Prayer: Moses Asked to be Permitted to Cross the Jordan River Prayer: Pleas offered In Prayer: when Moses Prayed to See Canaan, the Promised Land

Deuteronomy 3:25

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