For you shall see the land from a distance; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 52. Into it. By repeating this reproach and judgment God excited in his servant the most lively sentiments of repentance for his fault. Numbers 20. Bible.—Aaron had been deprived of the sight of this delightful country. If they had been labouring for its acquisition alone, the reflection must have been very cutting. But they had a better country in view, though they had greatly desired to enter into that land which was to be ennobled and purified by the birth and blood of the Son of God. Bible.—Having received the order from God in the evening, after Moses had taught his canticle to the people, he immediately set his house in order, and on the following morning he gave his last blessing to the tribes of Israel, and was attended by the chief to the foot of the mountain. Salien.