Lesson 254: Death of Moses - Joshua Chosen Leader

Deut. 34; Josh. 1

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INTRODUCTION. The book of Deuteronomy, which means second law, records the speeches of Moses to the Israelites as they camped on the east side of Jordan preparing to enter Canaan, their promised land. It had been forty years since the children of Israel had left Egypt. Because of their rebellion against God, they had wandered in the wilderness in the Sinai Peninsula during that time, and all the people that were twenty years and older when they left Egypt had died except Joshua and Caleb. Moses repeated to this new generation who had grown up during the forty years of wandering all the laws spoken by God at Mount Sinai.

Since Moses had sinned by striking the rock when God had told him to speak to the rock, Moses was forbidden to enter the land of Canaan also. Therefore, before he died God took him to Mount Nebo on the east side of the Jordan River and showed him the promised land. Moses then died at one hundred twenty years of age-his eye was not dim, nor his natural force (vigor) abated. God buried him in the valley of Moab, but no man knows where.