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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Deuteronomy 18:19

And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my words, which hee shall speake in my name, I will require it of him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Disobedience to God;   Quotations and Allusions;   Thompson Chain Reference - Whosoever;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Jesus Christ;   Prophecy and Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ, the Prophet;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prophets;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   False Prophet;   Hear, Hearing;   Prophet, Christ as;   Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Requirement;   Teach, Teacher;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Prophet;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Messiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Prophecy;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hear;   Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christ, Offices of;   Messiah;   Nathan (1);   Teach;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Memra;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name.
Hebrew Names Version
It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
King James Version
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Lexham English Bible
And then the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable.
English Standard Version
And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
New Century Version
This prophet will speak for me; anyone who does not listen when he speaks will answer to me.
New English Translation
I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.
Amplified Bible
'It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him [and there will be consequences].
New American Standard Bible
'And it shall come about that whoever does not listen to My words which he speaks in My name, I Myself will require it of him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my wordes, which he shall speake in my Name, I will require it of him.
Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.
Contemporary English Version
Since the message comes from me, anyone who doesn't obey the message will have to answer to me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Whoever doesn't listen to my words, which he will speak in my name, will have to account for himself to me.
Darby Translation
And it shall come to pass that the man who hearkeneth not unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Easy-to-Read Version
This prophet will speak for me, and I will punish anyone who refuses to listen to my commands.'
George Lamsa Translation
Whosoever will not hearken to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Good News Translation
He will speak in my name, and I will punish anyone who refuses to obey him.
Literal Translation
And it shall be, whoever will not listen to My Words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it at his hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And who so euer wyl not herken vnto my wordes, which he shal speake in my name, of him wil I requyre it.
American Standard Version
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Bible in Basic English
And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And whosoeuer wyll not hearken vnto my wordes, which he shall speake in my name, I wyll require it of hym.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And whatever man shall not hearken to whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in my name, I will take vengeance on him.
English Revised Version
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Berean Standard Bible
And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that that prophet speaks in My name.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Y schal be vengere of `that man, that nyle here the wordis `of hym, whiche he schal speke in my name.
Young's Literal Translation
and it hath been -- the man who doth not hearken unto My words which he doth speak in My name, I require [it] of him.
Update Bible Version
And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And it shall come to pass, [that] whoever will not hearken to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require [it] of him.
World English Bible
It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
New King James Version
And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him.
New Living Translation
I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf.
New Life Bible
He will speak in My name. And I will punish whoever will not listen to him.
New Revised Standard
Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet shall speak in my name, I myself will hold accountable.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it shall come to pass, that, the man who will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I, myself will require it of him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger.
Revised Standard Version
And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.

Contextual Overview

15 The Lord thy God will raise vp vnto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like vnto me, vnto him ye shall hearken, 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb, in the day of the assembly, saying, Let mee not heare again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let mee see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the Lord said vnto mee, They haue well spoken that which they haue spoken. 18 I will raise them vp a Prophet from among their brethren, like vnto thee, and will put my wordes in his mouth, and hee shall speake vnto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer will not hearken vnto my words, which hee shall speake in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet which shall presume to speake a word in my name, which I haue not commanded him to speake, or that shall speake in the name of other gods, euen that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall wee know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to passe, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not bee afraid of him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 16:16, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23, Hebrews 2:3, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 10:26, Hebrews 12:25, Hebrews 12:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:21 - he will not Deuteronomy 18:15 - a Prophet Deuteronomy 20:18 - General Joshua 22:23 - let the Lord Matthew 5:22 - I say Matthew 7:29 - having Matthew 17:5 - hear Luke 9:35 - hear John 5:46 - for John 6:29 - This John 12:48 - rejecteth

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
And he lift vp his eyes and looked, and loe, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, hee ranne to meete them from the tent doore, and bowed himselfe toward the ground,
Genesis 18:4
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feete, and rest your selues vnder the tree:
Genesis 18:5
And I will fetch a morsell of bread; and comfort ye your hearts, after that you shall passe on: for therefore are you come to your seruant. And they said; So doe, as thou hast said.
Genesis 18:6
And Abraham hastened into the tent, vnto Sarah, & said; Make ready quickly three measures of fine meale, knead it, and make cakes vpon the hearth.
Genesis 18:7
And Abraham ranne vnto the heard, and fetcht a calfe, tender and good, and gaue it vnto a yong man: and he hasted to dresse it.
Genesis 18:9
And they said vnto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly returne vnto thee according to the time of life; and loe, Sarah thy wife shall haue a sonne. And Sarah heard it in the tent doore, which was behind him.
Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that hee will command his children, and his household after him, and they shall keepe the way of the LORD, to doe iustice and iudgement, that the LORD may bring vpon Abraham, that which hee hath spoken of him.
Genesis 18:20
And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodome and Gomorrah is great, and because their sinne is very grieuous:
Genesis 18:21
I will goe downe now, and see whether they haue done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come vnto me: and if not, I will know.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words,.... To the doctrines of the Gospel, but slight and despise them:

which he shall speak in my name; in whose name he came, and whose words or doctrines he declared them to be; not as his own, but his Father's, John 5:43.

I will require it of him; or, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan,

"my Word shall require it of him, or take vengeance on him;''

as Christ the Word of God did in the destruction of the Jewish nation, city, and temple; see Luke 19:27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Messianic was the accredited interpretation among the Jews at the beginning of the Christian era (compare the marginal references, and John 4:25); nor can our Lord Himself, when He declares that Moses “wrote of Him” John 5:45-47, be supposed to have any other words more directly in view than these, the only words in which Moses, speaking in his own person, gives any prediction of the kind. But the verses seem to have a further, no less evident if subsidiary, reference to a prophetical order which should stand from time to time, as Moses had done, between God and the people; which should make known God’s will to the latter; which should by its presence render it unnecessary either that God should address the people directly, as at Sinai (Deuteronomy 18:16; compare Deuteronomy 5:25 ff), or that the people themselves in lack of counsel should resort to the superstitions of the pagan.

In fact, in the words before us, Moses gives promise both of a prophetic order, and of the Messiah in particular as its chief; of a line of prophets culminating in one eminent individual. And in proportion as we see in our Lord the characteristics of the prophet most perfectly exhibited, so must we regard the promise of Moses as in Him most completely accomplished.


 
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