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We also see reference to this song or poem in [[Revelation 15]]:3 "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, thou King of saints." | We also see reference to this song or poem in [[Revelation 15]]:3 "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, thou King of saints." | ||
Moses was told by [[YHVH]] to write down the words of a song and teach it to the community of the people, so that it would be a "witness for Me against the children of Israel."< | Moses was told by [[YHVH]] to write down the words of a song and teach it to the community of the people, so that it would be a "witness for Me against the children of Israel."<Ref>[[Deuteronomy 31]]:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.</Ref> | ||
In [[Deuteronomy 31]]:22 we see Moses did exactly that and makes a record in [[Deuteronomy 31]]:30 when "spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended". | In [[Deuteronomy 31]]:22 we see Moses did exactly that and makes a record in [[Deuteronomy 31]]:30 when "spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended". | ||
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The Song of Moses is the name sometimes given to the poem which appears in Deuteronomy 32:1–43, which according to the Bible was delivered just prior to Moses' death on Mount Nebo.[1]
We also see reference to this song or poem in Revelation 15:3 "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, thou King of saints."
Moses was told by YHVH to write down the words of a song and teach it to the community of the people, so that it would be a "witness for Me against the children of Israel."[2]
In Deuteronomy 31:22 we see Moses did exactly that and makes a record in Deuteronomy 31:30 when "spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended".
The actual text may have been inserted into Deuteronomy to confirm the record. Some scholars like George E. Mendenhall from the University of Michigan believes it was actually written down just after the defeat of the Israelite militia at the battle of Eben-Ezer. He attributes the Hebrew written text to the authorship of the prophet Samuel:
"The poem cannot have originated at any time than after the destruction of Shiloh" and "... there is an impressive number of linguistic correlations in this text with the language and idioms of the syllabic texts[3] from Byblos[4]; those correlations also cluster around Exodus 15, Judges 5, Deuteronomy 33, and Genesis 49".
It is a common theme of the Prophets. The opening verse of this poem is similar to the opening of Isaiah and also resembles the text of Psalms 78 and Psalms 105, and also Psalms 106. We can see its message in Ezekiel 29, as well as the allegories of Ezekiel 26 and Ezekiel 33.
The conceptual message of the Song of Moses seem to related to the Song of Moses since Jesus and Moses were in agreement. If the teachings of Moses were from the same God as the teachings of Christ then our understanding of the ancient text, its Altars of clay and stone may not be accurate because we do not understand the fullness of the Hebrew language and idioms.
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- ↑ 05015 נְבוֹ Nëbow [neb-o’] probably of foreign derivation; n pr dei m/n pr loc; [BDB-612b] [{See TWOT on 1279 }] [{See TWOT on 1280 }] AV-Nebo 13; 13
- Nebo= "prophet"
- n pr dei m
- 1) a Babylonian deity who presided over learning and letters; corresponds to Greek Hermes, Latin Mercury, and Egyptian Thoth
- n pr loc
- 2) a city in Moab and at one time assigned to Reuben; probably located on or near Mount Nebo
- 3) a city in Judah (maybe Benjamin) from which the families of some exiles, who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, originally came
- 4) the mountain where Moses died; located east of the Jordan opposite Jericho; site uncertain
- ↑ Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
- ↑ The Byblos script, also known as the Byblos syllabary, Pseudo-hieroglyphic script, Proto-Byblian, Proto-Byblic, or Byblic, is an undeciphered writing system, known from ten inscriptions found in Byblos
- ↑ Byblos one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.