Deuteronomy 18:17

THE MESSAGE

And God said to me, "They're right; they've spoken the truth. I'll raise up for them a prophet like you from their kinsmen. I'll tell him what to say and he will pass on to them everything I command him. And anyone who won't listen to my words spoken by him, I will personally hold responsible.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.

King James Version
And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh said to me, ‘They are right in what they have said.

English Standard Version
And the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken.

New Century Version
So the Lord said to me, "What they have said is good.

New English Translation
The Lord then said to me, "What they have said is good.

Amplified Bible
"The LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well.

New American Standard Bible
"And the LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord sayde vnto me, They haue well spoken.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh said to me, ‘They have spoken well.

Contemporary English Version
Then the Lord told me: Moses, they have said the right thing.

Complete Jewish Bible
On that occasion Adonai said to me, ‘They are right in what they are saying.

Darby Translation
And Jehovah said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

Easy-to-Read Version
"The Lord said to me, ‘What they ask for is good.

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

Good News Translation
So the Lord said to me, ‘They have made a wise request.

Literal Translation
And Jehovah said to me, They have spoken well, what they have said.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye LORDE saide vnto me: They haue well spoken.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto me, They have well said that which they have spoken.

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well said.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde sayde vnto me: They haue well spoken.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD said unto me: 'They have well said that which they have spoken.

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord said vnto mee, They haue well spoken that which they haue spoken.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said to me, They have spoken rightly all that they have said to thee.

English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto me, They have well said that which they have spoken.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to me, Thei spaken wel alle thingis.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah saith unto me, They have done well that they have spoken;

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said to me, They have said well that which they have spoken.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to me, They have well [spoken of that] which they have spoken.

World English Bible
Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.

New King James Version
"And the LORD said to me: "What they have spoken is good.

New Living Translation
"Then the Lord said to me, ‘What they have said is right.

New Life Bible
And the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.

New Revised Standard
Then the Lord replied to me: "They are right in what they have said.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said unto me: They have well said what they have spoken.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well.

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said to me, 'They have rightly said all that they have spoken.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ God , your God, is going to raise up a prophet for you. God will raise him up from among your kinsmen, a prophet like me. Listen obediently to him. This is what you asked God , your God, for at Horeb on the day you were all gathered at the mountain and said, "We can't hear any more from God , our God; we can't stand seeing any more fire. We'll die!" ¹⁷And God said to me, "They're right; they've spoken the truth. I'll raise up for them a prophet like you from their kinsmen. I'll tell him what to say and he will pass on to them everything I command him. And anyone who won't listen to my words spoken by him, I will personally hold responsible. ²⁰ "But any prophet who fakes it, who claims to speak in my name something I haven't commanded him to say, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die." ²¹You may be wondering among yourselves, "How can we tell the difference, whether it was God who spoke or not?" Here's how: If what the prophet spoke in God 's name doesn't happen, then obviously God wasn't behind it; the prophet made it up. Forget about him.

Bible Verse Review
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Deuteronomy 5:28

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 1:12 - Thou hast

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then God rained brimstone and fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah—a river of lava from God out of the sky!—and destroyed these cities and the entire plain and everyone who lived in the cities and everything that grew from the ground.

2 Kings 4:27
But when she reached the Holy Man at the mountain, she threw herself at his feet and held tightly to him. Gehazi came up to pull her away, but the Holy Man said, "Leave her alone—can't you see that she's in distress? But God hasn't let me in on why; I'm completely in the dark."

Psalms 25:14
God-friendship is for God-worshipers; They are the ones he confides in.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto me,.... Unto Moses, who carried the above request to the Lord:

they have well spoken that which they have spoken; see Deuteronomy 5:28.

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.