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Ulangan 18:21

Jika sekiranya kamu berkata dalam hatimu: Bagaimanakah kami mengetahui perkataan yang tidak difirmankan TUHAN? --

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Minister, Christian;   The Topic Concordance - Prophecy and Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets, False;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Discipline;   Divination;   False Prophet;   Holy Spirit, Gifts of;   Prophet, Prophetess, Prophecy;   Urim and Thummim;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Crimes and Punishments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Inspiration and Revelation;   Prophet;   Trial of Jesus;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christ, Offices of;   Nathan (1);   Prophecy;   Teach;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jika sekiranya kamu berkata dalam hatimu: Bagaimanakah kami mengetahui perkataan yang tidak difirmankan TUHAN? --
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka jikalau kiranya kamu berkata dalam hatimu demikian: Dengan apakah boleh kami ketahui akan perkataan itu bukannya firman Tuhan adanya?

Contextual Overview

15 The Lorde thy God wyll stirre vp vnto thee a prophete among you, euen of thy brethren like vnto me, vnto hym ye shall hearken, 16 Accordyng to all that thou desiredst of the Lorde thy God in Horeb in the day of the assemblie, when thou saydest: Let me heare the voyce of my Lorde God no more, nor see this great fire any more, that I dye not. 17 And the Lorde sayde vnto me: They haue well spoken. 18 I wyll raise them vp a prophete from among their brethren lyke vnto thee, and wyll put my wordes in his mouth, and he shall speake vnto them all that I shall commaunde hym. 19 And whosoeuer wyll not hearken vnto my wordes, which he shall speake in my name, I wyll require it of hym. 20 But the prophete which shall presume to speake a worde in my name, which I haue not comaunded hym to speake, or that speaketh in the name of strauge gods, the same prophete shall dye. 21 And if thou say in thine heart: howe shall we knowe the worde which the Lorde hath not spoken? 22 Euen when a prophete speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing folowe not, nor come to passe: that is the thyng which the Lorde hath not spoken, but the prophete hath spoken it presumptuously: Thou shalt not therfore be afrayde of hym.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:24, 1 John 4:1-3, Revelation 2:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:17 - thou shalt Jeremiah 13:22 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
But the Lorde came downe to see the citie and towre whiche the chyldren of men buylded.
Genesis 11:7
Come on, let vs go downe, and there confounde their language, that euerye one perceaue not his neighbours speache.
Genesis 18:1
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day.
Genesis 18:24
If there be fiftie ryghteous within the citie, wylt thou destroye and not spare the place for the sake of fiftie ryghteous that are therein?
Exodus 3:8
And am come downe to deliuer the out of the hande of the Egyptians, and to bryng them out of that lande, vnto a good lande & a large, vnto a lande that floweth with mylke and hony, euen vnto the place of the Chanaanites, and Hethites, and Amorites, and Pherizites, and Heuites, and of the Iebusites.
Exodus 33:5
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses: Say vnto the chyldren of Israel, ye are a styfnecked people: I must come once sodaynly vpon you, and make an ende of you: therefore nowe put thy goodly rayment from thee, that I may wyt what to do vnto thee.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lorde thy God led thee this fourtie yeres in the wildernesse, for to humble thee, & to proue thee, and to knowe what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest kepe his comaundementes, or no.
Deuteronomy 13:3
Hearken not thou vnto the wordes of that prophete or dreamer of dreames: For the Lorde thy God proueth you, to knowe whether ye loue the Lorde your God with all your heart and with all your soule.
Joshua 22:22
The Lorde God of gods, the Lorde God of gods knoweth, and also Israel shall knowe, yf it be to rebell or to transgresse against the Lorde, then thou Lorde saue vs not this day.
Job 34:22
There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death that can hide the wicked doers from him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if thou say in thine heart, &c] Such a thought arises in the mind, and it appears to be a difficulty, and a query is made upon it,

how shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? What marks, signs, and criterions are those by which it may be known that it is not a word that comes from the Lord?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And if thou say in thine heart, How ... - The passage evidently assumes such an occasion for consulting the prophet as was usual among the pagan, e. g., an impending battle or other such crisis (compare 1 Kings 22:11), in which his veracity would soon be put to the test. Failure of a prediction is set forth as a sure note of its being “presumptuous.” But from Deuteronomy 13:2 ff we see that the fulfillment of a prediction would not decisively accredit him who uttered it: for the prophet or dreamer of dreams who endeavoured on the strength of miracles to seduce to idolatry was to be rejected and punished. Nothing therefore contrary to the revealed truth of God was to be accepted under any circumstances.


 
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