Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 3:25

25 I pray thee let me go over , and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain , and Lebanon e.

For he supposed Gods threatning might be conditional and reversible, as many others were.

Or, that blessed mountain, which the Jews not improbably understand of that mountain on which the Temple was to be built. For as Moses desired and determined to prepare an habitation for God, Exod. 15. 2. and knew very well that God would chuse a certain place for his habitation, and to put his name there, Deut. 12. 5. So he also knew that it was the manner both of the true worshippers of God and of Idolaters to worship their God in high-places, and particularly that Abraham did worship God in the mount of M[illegible: 1+ letters]a, Gen. 22. 2. and therefore did either reasonably conjecture that God would chuse some certain mountain for the place of his habitation▪ or possibly understood by revelation that in that very mount of M[illegible: 1+ letters] where Abraham performed that eminent and glorious act of worship there also the children of Abraham should have their place of constant and settled worship. This he seems to call that mountain, emphatically and eminently, that which was much in Moses his thoughts, though not in his eye, and the blessed (as the Hebrew tob oft signifies) or the goodly mountain. Or, the mountain may be here put for the mountainous countries, as that word is oft used, as Gen. 36. 9. Numb. 13. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. and 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. 7. Deut. 1. 7. Ios. 10. 6. and 11. 16, 21. &c. And it is known that a great part of the glory and beauty and profit of this Country lay in its Hills or Mountains. See Deut. 11. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. and 33. 15. And that goodly mountain may by an Enallage of the number be put for those goodly mountains in Canaan, which were many. Thus also he proceeds gradually in this desire and description, and prays that he may see in general the good Land that is beyond Iordan, and then particularly, the goodly mountains of it, and especially that famous mount of Lebanon, which was so celebrated for its tall and large Cedars, and other Trees and excellent Plants. See Psal. 29. 5. and 1[illegible: 1+ letters]4. 16. Isa. 2. 13. and 14. 8.