"So Moses the servant of the Lord died."--_Deuteronomy 34:5._
IT was not God's will that Moses should lead the Israelites into the
promised land, but he was to die on the east side of the river Jordan;
and so he would have his rest above instead of in the land of promise.
But first God told him he might see the land. So he went up into a
very high hill: and there God made him able to see all the home of his
people--the snowy hill of Hermon, and Mount Lebanon where the cedar
trees grow, and the hills and valleys where Abraham had wandered and
Isaac and Jacob had lived, and which he had hoped for all his life; and
green fields, and corn-fields, and vineyards, on to the great blue sea
stretching out to the westward.
That was where his people were to live; but there was a better home
for Moses. Nobody saw him any more after he went up into the mountain.
There he died, and the Lord buried him, and no one knows of his
grave--only the children of Israel wept and mourned for him.