Moses Forbidden to Enter the Land
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"And I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying,
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'O Lord God, you have only begun to show your servant n your greatness and your mighty hand. For o what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?
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Please let me go over and see p the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and q Lebanon.'
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But r the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the Lord said to me, s 'Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.
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t Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.
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But u charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.'
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So we remained in v the valley opposite Beth-peor.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:24
And you said, 'Behold, the Lord our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.
Deuteronomy 11:2
And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm.
Deuteronomy 32:3
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord ; ascribe greatness to our God!
1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
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Cross References
Exodus 15:11
Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:22
For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of that good land.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Cross References
Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:37
Even with me the Lord was angry on your account and said, 'You also shall not go in there.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Cross References
Numbers 27:12 - 13
The Lord said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:38
Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
Deuteronomy 31:3
The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken.
Deuteronomy 31:7
Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.
Numbers 27:23
And he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the Lord directed through Moses.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:46
Beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 34:6
And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.