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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Deuteronomy 18:17

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Moses;   Quotations and Allusions;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Prophecy and Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophecies Respecting Christ;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christ, Offices of;   Messiah;   Nathan (1);   Teach;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Theology;  

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.
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.

Contextual Overview

15 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him. 16 "This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.' 17 "The LORD said to me, 'They have spoken well.18 'I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19 '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. 20 'But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.' 21 "You may say in your heart, 'How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?' 22 "When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 5:28

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 1:12 - Thou hast

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,
2 Kings 4:27
When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me."
2 Chronicles 20:7
"Did You not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
Psalms 25:14
The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His covenant.
John 15:15
"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
James 2:23
and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God.

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.


 
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