John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 34:11

John Gill Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:11

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Deuteronomy 34:11

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"in all the signs and the wonders, which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land," — Deuteronomy 34:11 (ASV)

In all the signs and the wonders which the Lord sent him to
do
The same Targums also paraphrase here,

in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all
his land ;
to whom they were visible, and who were all affected by them more or less: this respects chiefly the ten plagues inflicted on the Egyptians: the Jews observe that the superior excellency of Moses to the rest of the prophets lay chiefly in his superior degree of prophecy rather than in miracles, and not so much in the nature or the quality of the miracles; the stopping of the sun by Joshua, and the raising of the dead to life by Elijah and Elisha, being greater than his; but either in the duration of them, as the manna which continued near forty years; or especially in the quantity of them, he working more than all the rest put together: Manasseh Ben Israel F21 has collected all that the prophets wrought or were wrought for their sakes, and they came to seventy four; but those that were wrought by Moses or on his account make seventy six; but whether this is a just account I will not say.


FOOTNOTES:

  • F21: Conciliator in Deut. Qu. 11. sect. 4. p. 238, 239, 240.