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Deuteronomy 18 Bible study: A prophet like me
The prophet like Moses was the LORD's answer to the people's own request at Horeb, "Let me not hear again the LORD my God’s voice", and the LORD said, "They have well said" (18:16-17). The nations listen to diviners; Israel was to "listen to him" (18:14-15). Peter quotes this promise (Acts 3:22) and says God raised up "his servant Jesus" (Acts 3:26).
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“The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.”
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“In Deuteronomy 18, the promised prophet is tied to what the people asked for at Horeb.”
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What's really going on
No land, and the LORD instead
The chapter opens with the tribe that gets no share of the land: "The priests and the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel" (18:1). Then comes what they have instead: "The LORD is their inheritance, as he has spoken to them" (18:2). In Numbers the LORD had said it to Aaron: "I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel" (Numbers 18:20), and Deuteronomy has said it already (10:9). So they live from what Israel brings: "the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the inner parts" of a sacrifice (18:3), and "the first fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep" (18:4). And any Levite may come: if he "comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which the LORD shall choose" (18:6), "then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brothers the Levites do" (18:7), and "They shall have like portions to eat" (18:8).
Where it leads to Jesus
A prophet like me
Deuteronomy 18:15leads toActs 3:22-23
Moses says, "The LORD your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him" (18:15), and the book ends, "Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses" (34:10). In Acts, Peter tells the people of "Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before" (Acts 3:20), and quotes this promise: "The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you" (Acts 3:22), and "every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people" (Acts 3:23), which the WEB words differently from 18:19. He ends, "God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you" (Acts 3:26). Stephen also recalls Moses' promise (Acts 7:37).
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- They listen to diviners; you listen to him
- A prophet, because they asked
- Leviticus said it first
- "There has not arisen a prophet… like Moses"
- Judges, priests, a king and a prophet
- 9 questions as you read
- 13 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
נָבִיאnavisay na-VEE
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "spokesman, speaker, prophet". Deuteronomy uses the word ten times: three in chapter 13, six in this chapter (18:15, 18:18, twice in 18:20, twice in 18:22), and once at the end: "there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses" (34:10). The LORD had used it of Aaron: "Aaron your brother shall be your prophet" (Exodus 7:1), the one who would speak for Moses. Here the promise is "a prophet… like me" (18:15), and the LORD says of him, "I will put my words in his mouth" (18:18).
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Deuteronomy 18 Bible study questions
- 1At Horeb the people asked not to hear the LORD's voice directly, and the LORD said, "They have well said" (18:16-17). When has God's word reached you best through another person?
- 2The nations listened to diviners; Israel was to "listen to him" (18:14-15). Whose voices do you find yourself listening to most in an ordinary week, and where do they lead you?
- 3The chapter ends, "You shall not be afraid of him" (18:22). What kinds of confident voices are you tempted to fear, and what would it look like to test them instead?
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