[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Deuteronomy Overview]] [[Deuteronomy 17]] [[Deuteronomy 19]] # Deuteronomy 18 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Provision for Priests and Levites [[#Verse 01.]] The Levitical priests—indeed, the entire tribe of Levi—will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance. [[#Verse 02.]] They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.  [[#Verse 03.]] This shall be the priests’ fair allotment from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep—they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.  [[#Verse 04.]] You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.  [[#Verse 05.]] For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently. [[#Verse 06.]] Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the Lord chooses  [[#Verse 07.]] and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.  [[#Verse 08.]] He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance. ### Prohibited Occult Practices [[#Verse 09.]] When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.  [[#Verse 10.]] There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer, [[#Verse 11.]] one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.  [[#Verse 12.]] Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord, and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is about to drive them out from before you.  [[#Verse 13.]] You must be blameless before the Lord your God.  [[#Verse 14.]] Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things. [[#Verse 15.]] The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you—from your fellow Israelites; you must listen to him.  [[#Verse 16.]] This accords with what happened at Horeb in the day of the assembly. You asked the Lord your God: “Please do not make us hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore or see this great fire anymore lest we die.”  [[#Verse 17.]] The Lord then said to me, “What they have said is good.  [[#Verse 18.]] I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.  [[#Verse 19.]] I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name. [[#Verse 20.]] “But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.  [[#Verse 21.]] Now if you say to yourselves, ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’—  [[#Verse 22.]] whenever a prophet speaks in my name and the prediction is not fulfilled, then I have not spoken it; the prophet has presumed to speak it, so you need not fear him.” ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes