申命記 18:13-22 JCB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9-14

One would not think there had been so much need as it seems there was to arm the people of Israel against the infection of the idolatrous customs of the Canaanites. Was it possible that a people so blessed with divine institutions should ever admit the brutish and barbarous inventions of men and devils? Were they in any danger of making those their tutors and directors in religion whom God had made their captives and tributaries? It seems they were in danger, and therefore, after many similar... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:15-22

Here is, I. The promise of the great prophet, with a command to receive him, and hearken to him. Now, 1. Some think it is the promise of a succession of prophets, that should for many ages be kept up in Israel. Besides the priests and Levites, their ordinary ministers, whose office it was to teach Jacob God's law, they should have prophets, extraordinary ministers, to reprove them for their faults, remind them of their duty, and foretel things to come, judgments for warning and deliverances... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:13

Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. Sincerely serve and worship him, faithfully adhere to his word, laws, statutes, and ordinances, and walk uprightly before him. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:14

For those nations which thou shall possess hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners ,.... Such as are before mentioned, and did as they directed them: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do ; or, "but thou not so" F13 ואתה לא כן "et tu non sic", Montanus. thou shouldest not do so, not hearken to such persons, but to the Lord thy God, and to his law and testimony; nor art thou left to the deception of such persons: the Lord thy God... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:15

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet ,.... Not Joshua, as Aben Ezra, not Jeremiah, as Baal Haturim, nor David F15 Herbanus in Disputat. cum Gregent. p. 13. col. 2. , as others; nor a succession of prophets, as Jarchi; for a single person is only spoken of; and there is a dissimilitude between Moses and anyone of the prophets, and all of them in succession, Deuteronomy 34:10 , but the Messiah, with whom the whole agrees; and upon this the expectation of a prophet among... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:16

According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God at Horeb ,.... This was promised them, in answer to their request at Horeb or Mount Sinai, when the law was delivered to them in the terrible manner it was: in the day of the assembly; in which the tribes were gathered together to receive the law, when they were assembled at the foot of the mount for that purpose: saying, let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God ; which was such a voice of words, attended with so much... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:17

And the Lord said unto me ,.... Unto Moses, who carried the above request to the Lord: they have well spoken that which they have spoken ; see Deuteronomy 5:28 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee ,.... So that it seems this promise or prophecy was first made at Mount Sinai, but now renewed and repeated, and which is nowhere else recorded; see Deuteronomy 18:15 when they were not only made easy for the present by appointing Moses to receive from the Lord all further notices of his mind and will, but were assured that when it was his pleasure to make a new revelation, or a further discovery of his mind and will,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:19

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words ,.... To the doctrines of the Gospel, but slight and despise them: which he shall speak in my name ; in whose name he came, and whose words or doctrines he declared them to be; not as his own, but his Father's, John 5:43 . I will require it of him ; or, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan,"my Word shall require it of him, or take vengeance on him;'as Christ the Word of God did in the destruction of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:20

But the prophet which shall presume to speak in my name ,.... Pretending a mission and commission from God, and yet was never sent by him, like the prophets in Jeremiah 23:21 , which I have not commanded him to speak ; which though true was not to be spoken in a public manner, by assuming a public office, without a divine authority or a commission from God, and much less what was false, and never commanded to be spoken at all by any: or, that shall speak in the name of other gods ;... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:15-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:20

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