Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 18

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Deuteronomy 18 . 1 , The LORD is the priests and Levites’ inheritance; Deuteronomy 18 . 3 , The priests’ due; Deuteronomy 18 . 6 , The Levites’ portion; Deuteronomy 18 . 9 , The abominations of the nations are to be avoided; Deuteronomy 18 . 15 , Christ the Prophet is to be heard; Deuteronomy 18 . 20 , The presumptuous prophet is to die.

Deuteronomy 18:1

The Levitical priests—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They are to eat the offerings made by fire to the LORD; that is their inheritance.

Deuteronomy 18:1 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:2

Although they have no inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance, as He promised them.

Deuteronomy 18:2 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:3

This shall be the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

Deuteronomy 18:3 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:4

You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.

Deuteronomy 18:4 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:5

For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.

Deuteronomy 18:5 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:6

Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

Deuteronomy 18:6 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:7

then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

Deuteronomy 18:7 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:8

They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.

Deuteronomy 18:8 · BSB

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that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony Heb. his sales by the fathers

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

Deuteronomy 18:9 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:10

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

Deuteronomy 18:10 · BSB

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The precise import of the terms here used to express these unhallowed practices cannot be clearly ascertained. He that useth divination , kosaim , kesamim , seems a general term for the various species after specified; observer of times , meonain , one who pretends to foretell by the clouds , planets , etc.; enchanter menachesh , a diviner , either by means of serpents , or by inspecting the entrails of beasts , the flight of birds , etc.; a witch , mecashsheph , one who used magical fumigations , etc.; a charmer , chover chaver , one who uses spells , or a peculiar conjunction of words , or tying knots , etc.; a consulter with familiar spirits , shoel ov , a pythoness; a wizard , yidoni , a cunning man; necromancer , doresh el hammaithim one who seeks enquiries of the dead

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Deuteronomy 18:11

casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.

Deuteronomy 18:11 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:12

For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

Deuteronomy 18:12 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:13

You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 18:13 · BSB

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perfect or , upright , or , sincere

Deuteronomy 18:14

Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.

Deuteronomy 18:14 · BSB

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possess or , inherit

Deuteronomy 18:15

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.

Deuteronomy 18:15 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:16

This is what you asked of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, "Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire anymore, so that we will not die!"

Deuteronomy 18:16 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:17

Then the LORD said to me, "They have spoken well.

Deuteronomy 18:17 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

Deuteronomy 18:18 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:19

And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.

Deuteronomy 18:19 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:20

But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”

Deuteronomy 18:20 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:21

You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”

Deuteronomy 18:21 · BSB

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Deuteronomy 18:22

When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:22 · BSB

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web28 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Acts 3:22-23 → Deuteronomy 18:15-20, Acts 7:37 → Deuteronomy 18:15
Allusions John 1:21 → Deuteronomy 18:15, John 1:45 → Deuteronomy 18:15, John 12:48 → Deuteronomy 18:19, John 12:49 → Deuteronomy 18:18-19, John 6:14 → Deuteronomy 18:15, John 7:16 → Deuteronomy 18:18, Acts 19:19 → Deuteronomy 18:10-14, 1 John 3:23 → Deuteronomy 18:15-19, Deuteronomy 18:15 → Exodus 20:19, Deuteronomy 18:15-18 → Exodus 20:19, Deuteronomy 34:10 → Deuteronomy 18:15, Nehemiah 6:13 → Deuteronomy 18:22, Jeremiah 1:6 → Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:6-9 → Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 33:14 → Deuteronomy 18:5, Jeremiah 33:14-22 → Deuteronomy 18:5
Echoes Hebrews 3:1-6 → Deuteronomy 18:15-19
Trajectories
False Prophets (Way of Cain), High Priest Seated at the Right Hand (Christ's Royal-Priestly Session), Levitical Cities (Priestly Geography), Moses (The Prophet Like Unto Me)
Longitudinal Themes
Mediation
Anchor Text Networks
Networked Deuteronomy 18.15-19 - A Prophet Like Moses
Chiasms
Shaped Deuteronomy 18:1–2, Deuteronomy 18:3–8, Deuteronomy 18:9–22
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