Charles Ellicott Commentary Deuteronomy 34:1-2

"And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And Jehovah showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the hinder sea," — Deuteronomy 34:1-2 (ASV)

Pisgah. See Numbers 21:20. The word seems to mean a height.

The Lord showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali ... unto the utmost sea. That is, He showed him all the land that was to be given to these several tribes.

Whether He then showed it to him under the names that are given here or not is a question we cannot answer. Many deeply interesting queries suggest themselves here. Did Moses go up alone? Or did Joshua accompany him? Who wrote these particulars of what was shown to him, and how were the particulars known? I am disposed to believe that as Elijah and Elisha still went on and talked, until that chariot of fire appeared that parted them both asunder, so it was with Moses and Joshua. It seems likely that Moses’ minister attended him until Jehovah withdrew him from his sight.

But it speaks well for Joshua’s character. In fact, it is altogether characteristic of the man that in this record of the death of the great lawgiver, he concealed himself and every other figure from sight except Jehovah and His servant Moses.

Rashi, in his comment on this scene, says that the Lord showed Moses not only the land but also what would happen in it, in every part. But of this we know nothing. We know that the spectacle was complete. Probably the eye that was not dim was enabled to see farther than any human eye had ever seen from such a height before. The utmost sea is a full fifty miles away from that spot.