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Deuteronomy 18:10-20

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10 There shall not be found among you anyone 1who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, [a] anyone who 2practices divination or 3tells fortunes or interprets omens, or 4a sorcerer
11 or a charmer or 5a medium or a necromancer or 6one who inquires of the dead,
12 7for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And 8because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,
14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do this.

A New Prophet like Moses

15 9“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—
16 just as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb 10on the day of the assembly, when you said, 11‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die. ’
17 And the Lord said to me, 12‘They are right in what they have spoken.
18 13I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. 14And I will put my words in his mouth, and 15he shall speak to them all that I command him.
19 16And whoever will 17not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
20 18But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or[b] who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. ’
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Deuteronomy 18:10-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 18

This chapter gives an account of the provision made for the priests and Levites, with the reason of it, De 18:1-5, of allowance of a country Levite to minister at Jerusalem, and take his portion with the rest, De 18:6-8, and of several persons of bad practices not to be suffered among the people of Israel, De 18:9-14, and of an extraordinary prophet that should be raised up among them, to whom they should hearken, or it would be the worse for them, De 18:15-19, but a false prophet was to be put to death, of whom a sign is given by which he might be known, De 18:20-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 18

  • 1. 18:10 See Lev. 18:21
  • 2. 18:10 2 Kgs. 17:17
  • 3. 18:10 See Lev. 19:26
  • 4. 18:10 [Ex. 22:18]
  • 5. 18:11 See Lev. 19:31
  • 6. 18:11 [1 Sam. 28:7]
  • 7. 18:12 ch. 22:5; 25:16
  • 8. 18:12 See ch. 9:4
  • 9. 18:15 John 1:21, 25, 45; Cited Acts 3:22; 7:37
  • 10. 18:16 See ch. 9:10
  • 11. 18:16 See Ex. 20:19
  • 12. 18:17 ch. 5:28
  • 13. 18:18 [See ver. 15 above]
  • 14. 18:18 Jer. 1:9; 5:14; [John 17:8]
  • 15. 18:18 [John 4:25; 8:28; 12:49, 50]
  • 16. 18:19 [Acts 3:23]
  • 17. 18:19 Jer. 29:19; 35:13
  • 18. 18:20 See ch. 13:5

Footnotes 2

  • [a] 18:10 Hebrew 'makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire'
  • [b] 18:20 Or 'and'
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025

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