Deuteronomy 18:18 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Deuteronomy 18:18

16 according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb ^ain the day of the assembly, saying, ^b‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

17 “And the Lord said to me: ^a‘What they have spoken is good.

18 ^aI will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and ^bwill put My words in His mouth, ^cand He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

19 ^aAnd it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.

20 But ^athe prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^bwho speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’—

22 ^awhen a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, ^bif the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it ^cpresumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

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Deuteronomy 18:15-19

CHRIST THE PROPHET IS TO BE HEARD. (Deuteronomy 18:15-19)

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet—The insertion of this promise, in connection with the preceding prohibition, might warrant the application (which some make of it) to that order of true prophets whom God commissioned in unbroken succession to instruct, to direct, and warn His people; and in this view the purport of it is, "There is no need to consult with diviners and soothsayers, as I shall afford you the benefit of divinely appointed prophets, for judging of whose credentials a sure criterion is given" (Deuteronomy 18:20-22). But the prophet here promised was pre-eminently the Messiah, for He alone was "like unto Moses" (see on Deuteronomy 34:10) "in His mediatorial character; in the peculiar excellence of His ministry; in the number, variety, and magnitude of His miracles; in His close and familiar communion with God; and in His being the author of a new dispensation of religion." This prediction was fulfilled fifteen hundred years afterwards and was expressly applied to Jesus Christ by Peter (Acts 3:22-23), and by Stephen (Acts 7:37).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Deuteronomy 18:18:

Deuteronomy 18:15-19
2 Samuel 14:22
Isaiah 11:2
Isaiah 51:16
Jeremiah 23:5
Hosea 12:13
Galatians 2:19

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