Deuteronomy 18:15-18 NIV

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 18:15

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:15

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet - Instead of diviners, observers of times, etc., God here promises to give them an infallible guide, who should tell them all things that make for their peace, so that his declarations should completely answer the end of all the knowledge that was pretended to be gained by the persons already specified. Like unto me - Viz., a prophet, a legislator, a king, a mediator, and the head or chief of the people of God. This was the very person... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:15

Verse 15 15.The Lord thy God will raise up. This is added by anticipation, lest the Israelites should object that they were more hardly dealt with than the rest of the nations of the world; for it was always most justly considered an extraordinary blessing to hold communication with God; and indeed there can be nothing more to be desired. But an opinion had obtained currency, that men approached more closely to God by means of magical arts, by the oracles of Pythonic spirits, and by the study... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:16

Verse 16 16.According to all that thou desiredst. He pronounces them to be guilty of ingratitude if they did not quietly submit themselves to their Prophets, since on this point God had complied with their own request. For in order that the prophetic office might be more reverenced and beloved by them, and lest it should fall into disrepute through their beholding the Prophet to be but a mortal, God had extracted the confession from them that nothing could be better than that He should make... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:17

Verse 17 17.They have well spoken. Moses relates how this desire of the people was approved by the judgment and the voice of God. Not as if whatever the foolish caprice of men may have urged them absurdly to ask, ought therefore to be immediately granted; but when God’s consent and, so to speak, His vote coincides with it, then whatever He shews to be pleasing to Him ought to stand firm and inviolable. Hence it follows that God, in sending the Prophets, provided for the salvation of men as was... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9-22

Moses was not only the leader and ruler of the people, he was also the medium through which God communicated with the people, gave them his laws, and conveyed to them his word and will. In this respect his place could be supplied neither by priest nor by king. In the prospect of his demise, therefore, there required to be instituted another office, that of a prophet, one who should be between God and the people, as the channel through which Divine communications might pass to them. This office... read more

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 18:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Deuteronomy 18:9-22

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