SEV Biblia, Chapter 31:2
y les dijo: De edad de ciento veinte años soy hoy día; no puedo más salir ni entrar; a más de esto el SEÑOR me ha dicho: No pasarás este Jordán.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 31:2
Verse 2. I am a hundred and twenty years old] The life of Moses, the great prophet of God and lawgiver of the Jews, was exactly the same in length as the time Noah employed in preaching righteousness to the antediluvian world. These one hundred and twenty years were divided into three remarkable periods: forty years he lived in Egypt, in Pharaoh's court, acquiring all the learning and wisdom of the Egyptians; (see Acts vii. 20, 23;) forty years he sojourned in the land of Midian in a state of preparation for his great and important mission; (Acts vii. 29, 30;) and forty years he guided, led, and governed the Israelites under the express direction and authority of God: in all, one hundred and twenty years.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And he said unto them, I [am] an hundred and twenty years old this day , etc.] Whether the meaning is, that that day precisely was his birthday, is a question; it may be the sense is only this, that he was now arrived to such an age; though Jarchi takes it in the first sense, to which are objected his words in ( Deuteronomy 31:14); yet it seems by ( Deuteronomy 32:48) that having delivered to the children of Israel the song he was ordered this day to write, on the selfsame day he was bid to go up to Mount Nebo and die: and it is a commonly received tradition with the Jews, that Moses died on the same day of the month he was born; (see Gill on “ Deuteronomy 34:7”). I can no more go out and come in ; not that he could no longer go out of his tent and return without great trouble and difficulty, being so decrepit; but that he could not perform his office as their ruler and governor, or go out to battle and return as their general; and this not through any incapacity of body or mind, both being vigorous, sound, and well, as is clear from ( Deuteronomy 34:7); but because it was the will of God that he should live no longer to exercise such an office, power, and authority: also the Lord hath said unto me , or “for the Lord has said” f554 , and so is a reason of the foregoing; the Targum is, “the Word of the Lord said:” thou shalt not go over this Jordan : to which he and the people of Israel were nigh, and lay between them and the land of Canaan, over which it was necessary to pass in order to go into it; but Moses must not lead them there, this work was reserved for Joshua, a type of Christ; not Moses and his law, or obedience to it, is what introduces any into the heavenly Canaan only Jesus and his righteousness; (see Deuteronomy 3:27).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - Moses assures Israel of the constant presence of God with them. This i applied by the apostle to all God's spiritual Israel, to encourag their faith and hope; unto us is this gospel preached, as well as unt them; he will never fail thee, nor forsake thee, Heb 13:5. Mose commends Joshua to them for a leader; one whose wisdom, and courage and affection they had long known; one whom God had appointed to be their leader; and therefore would own and bless. Joshua is well please to be admonished by Moses to be strong and of good courage. Those shal speed well, who have God with them; therefore they ought to be of goo courage. Through God let us do valiantly, for through him we shall d victoriously; if we resist the devil, he will flee from us.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 אלהם 413 בן 1121 מאה 3967 ועשׂרים 6242 שׁנה 8141 אנכי 595 היום 3117 לא 3808 אוכל 3201 עוד 5750 לצאת 3318 ולבוא 935 ויהוה 3068 אמר 559 אלי 413 לא 3808 תעבר 5674 את 853 הירדן 3383 הזה׃ 2088
