41 Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east e , 42 that a manslayer might flee there , who unintentionally e slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past ; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live : 43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau e for the Reubenites , and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites , and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites .
44 Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel ; 45 these are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel , when they came out from Egypt , 46 across the Jordan , in the valley opposite Beth-peor , in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon , whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out from Egypt . 47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan , the two kings of the Amorites , who were across the Jordan to the east e , 48 from Aroer , which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon , even as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon ), 49 with all the Arabah across the Jordan to the east , even as far as the sea of the Arabah , at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:41-49
Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:41-49
(Read Deuteronomy 4:41-49)
Here is the introduction to another discourse, or sermon, Moses preached to Israel, which we have in the following chapters. He sets the law before them, as the rule they were to work by, the way they were to walk in. He sets it before them, as the glass in which they were to see their natural face, that, looking into this perfect law of liberty, they might continue therein. These are the laws, given when Israel was newly come out of Egypt; and they were now repeated. Moses gave these laws in charge, while they encamped over against Beth-peor, an idol place of the Moabites. Their present triumphs were a powerful argument for obedience. And we should understand our own situation as sinners, and the nature of that gracious covenant to which we are invited. Therein greater things are shown to us than ever Israel saw from mount Sinai; greater mercies are given to us than they experienced in the wilderness, or in Canaan. One speaks to us, who is of infinitely greater dignity than Moses; who bare our sins upon the cross; and pleads with us by His dying love.