Will raise up — Will produce and send into the world in due time. A prophet like unto me — Christ was truly, and in all commendable parts like him, in being both a prophet and a king and a priest and mediator, in the excellency of his ministry and work, in the glory of his miracles, in his familiar and intimate converse with God.
Verse Deuteronomy 18:15. _THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET_] Instead of _diviners, observers of times_, c., God here promises to give them an _infallible guide_, who should tell the...
The ancient fathers of the Church and the generality of modern commentators have regarded our Lord as the prophet promised in these verses. It is evident from the New Testament alone that the Messiani...
14. THE RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES, THE TRUE AND THE FALSE PROPHET CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The rights of the priests and Levites (Deuteronomy 18:1)_ 2. Forbidden things (Deuteronomy 18:9) kite h...
CONCERNING THE PROPHET. The Israelites are to consult Yahweh through His accredited messenger the prophet, and not through diviners who seek oracles by heathen methods. There is no parallel law in JE...
WILL RAISE UP. Note the transition, and the Structure above. HEARKEN. Compare Matthew 17:5.Acts 3:22; Acts 3:23....
Of Prophets in contrast to Diviners, etc. In the promised land Israel must have nothing to do with the abominations of its peoples (Deuteronomy 18:9); with any one passing his children through the fi...
A PROPHET FROM THE MIDST [OF THEE] OF THY BRETHREN LIKE UNTO ME SHALL THE LORD THY GOD RAISE UP TO THEE] Such is the emphatic order of the original, missed by EVV. _A prophet_not individual but colle...
_VER._ 15. _THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET,_ &C.— Plain as this prophecy is, it has been strangely perverted and misapplied: but it is conceived, that nothing will be wanting to th...
LESSON FOURTEEN DEUTERONOMY 16:18-20; DEUTERONOMY 17:2 TO DEUTERONOMY 18:22 e. THE LEADERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE ...
(4) PROPHETS (Deuteronomy 18:9-22) 9 When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found...
_THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET FROM THE MIDST OF THEE, OF THY BRETHREN, LIKE UNTO ME; UNTO HIM YE SHALL HEARKEN;_ The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet, х_ NAABIY'_...
THE PRIESTLY DUES. CHARACTER AND WORK OF THE TRUE PROPHET 1-8. The Priestly dues: see on Numbers 18....
This is closely connected with what precedes. Israel has no need to employ such arts of divination as other nations use. Jehovah Himself will communicate His will to them through the prophets whom He...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 V1 ‘The priests are *Levites. They and all the *tribe called Levi, will not have any share o...
Deuteronomy 18:15. THE ONE MEDIATOR. The connection between these verses and the preceding is well illustrated by Isaiah’s question (Deuteronomy 8:19): “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto the...
נָבִ֨יא מִ קִּרְבְּךָ֤ מֵ אַחֶ֨יךָ֙ כָּמֹ֔נִי...
SPEAKERS FOR GOD - III. THE PROPHET Deuteronomy 18:9. THE third of the Divine voices to this nation was the prophet. Just as in the other Semitic nations round about Israel there were kings and prie...
THE PROPHET WHO WAS TO COME Deuteronomy 18:1 Those that serve the altar may live by the altar. Let us not forget the needs of those who serve us in holy things. It is a blessed thing when an individu...
In dealing with the priest who was already found among the people by the appointment of God, the fact that he was to have no inheritance in the land was restated. Then a special provision was made for...
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a (g) Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; (g) Meaning, a continual succession of prophets, till Christ,...
Prophet. This passage plainly proves, that the Scripture may have many literal senses: for the context insinuates that God would supply the wants of his people, so that they should not need to go far...
Of all the striking prophecies in GOD'S word, directly and plainly pointing to the LORD JESUS, this seems to be among the highest. And so interesting is it, that we find it spoken of in quotations fre...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
_THE GREAT PROPHET_ ‘The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.’ Deuteronomy 18:15 The history of Moses is...
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...
The priests and the whole tribe of Levi have their portion assigned to them. The people are forbidden to do after those abominations, on account of which the nations which inhabited the land were driv...
THE LORD THY GOD WILL RAISE UP UNTO THEE A PROPHET,.... Not Joshua, as Aben Ezra, not Jeremiah, as Baal Haturim, nor David o, as others; nor a succession of prophets, as Jarchi; for a single person is...
The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; Ver. 15. _Like unto me._] Both in the participation of nature and...
_Will raise up_ Will produce and send into the world in due time. _A Prophet of thy brethren, like unto me_ These words are very remarkable, and deserve our very particular attention. Moses was now ab...
1 The Lord is the Priests and Leuites inheritance. 3 The Priests due. 6 The Leuites portion. 9 The abominations of the Nations are to bee auoyded. 15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The pre...
OF THE COMING GREAT PROPHET...
The Lord, thy God, will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye shall hearken. With great abruptness, as it is characteristic of prophecy, Noses...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES: THEIR DUE (vs.1-8) The proper support of the priests and Levites is again insisted on. Since they were given no inheritance in the land, and were separated to care for the intere...
15-22 It is here promised concerning Christ, that there should come a Prophet, great above all the prophets; by whom God would make known himself and his will to the children of men, more fully and c...
WILL RAISE UP, i.e. will produce and send into the world in due time. A PROPHET: those words may be understood secondarily concerning the succession of prophets which God would raise for the instructi...
The opening paragraph of this chapter suggests a deeply interesting and practical line of truth. "The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; th...
Deuteronomy 18:15 LORD H3068 God H430 up H6965 (H8686) Prophet H5030 midst H7130 brethren H251 hear H8085 ...
YAHWEH WILL RAISE UP PROPHETS FOR THEM (DEUTERONOMY 18:15). Instead of turning to the occult which can only deceive them they should rather turn to the prophets who will be sent by Yahweh. These verse...
Deuteronomy 18:15 The history of Moses is valuable to Christians, not only as giving us a pattern of fidelity towards God, of great firmness, and great meekness, but also as affording us a type or fi...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning Levites, idolatrous practices and prophets. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Christ. CONCLUSION: God has made Himself known to men through One above all prophets (Acts 3:22; Acts 7:3...
Deuteronomy 18:1. _They shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire._ The sin- offerings, except the skin and the fat, which were burnt on the altar. The ecclesiastics having relinquished the two...
_A Prophet. .. like unto me._ CHRIST THE GREATEST OF THE PROPHETS I. The office of a prophet in ancient Israel. He was the voice of God to the nation. 1. Prophets are found from the earliest times i...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 18:15 On the VOICE OF THE LORD, see Deuteronomy 5:23. a prop
CRITICAL NOTES.—After speaking of the rulers of the people, Moses now mentions the teachers priests, Levites, and prophets; and what their privileges and position must be in their settlement in Canaan...
EXPOSITION RIGHTS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES. THE ARTS OF DIVINATION OF THE HEATHEN TO BE AVOIDED. PROPHETS PROMISED WHOM...
Now again he repeats how the tribe of Levi is not to be given any portion of the land but they will eat the offerings that were given unto the Lord made by fire as their inheritance for the Lord is th...
1 John 3:23; 1 Timothy 2:5; Acts 3:22; Acts 3:23; Acts 7:37;...
How can the command for wholesale slaughter of innocent lives be justified? (See comments on Joshua 6:21) Deuteronomy 20:16-18 —Were the captives to be spared or killed? PROBLEM: In Deuteronomy 20:11;...