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Selected Verse: Deuteronomy 3:29 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| De 3:29 |
King James |
So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Beth-peor, i. e., the house of Peor, no doubt derived its name from a temple of the Moabite god Peor which was there situated. It was no doubt near to Mount Peor Num 23:28, and also to the valley of the Jordan perhaps in the Wady Heshban. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Beth-peor - This was a city in the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites; and as בית beth signifies a house, the place probably had its name from a temple of the god Peor, who was worshipped there. Peor was nearly the same among the Moabites that Priapus was among the Romans - the obscene god of an obscene people. This we have already seen.
It is very likely that what God speaks here, both concerning Moses and Joshua, was designed to be typical of the procedure of his justice and grace in the salvation of man.
1. The land of Canaan was a type of the kingdom of heaven.
2. The law, which shows the holiness of God and the exceeding sinfulness of sin, could not bring the people to the possession of that kingdom.
3. Moses may probably be considered here as the emblem of that law by which is the knowledge of sin, but not redemption from it
4. Joshua, the same as Jesus, the name signifying a Savior, is appointed to bring the people into the rest which God had provided for them; thus it is by Jesus Christ alone that the soul is saved - fitted for and brought into the possession of the heavenly inheritance, (see Joh 1:17; Gal 2:16; Gal 3:12, Gal 3:13, Gal 3:24); for he is the end of the law - the great scope and design of the law, for righteousness - for justification, to them that believe; Rom 10:4. Such a use as this every pious reader may make of the circumstances recorded here, without the danger of pushing analogy or metaphor beyond their reasonable limits. |
28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.