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
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