Deuteronomy 18:17 BSB

Deuteronomy 18:17

Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 Deu 5:28.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"Well," says God, "it shall be so; they shall be spoken to by men, whose terrors shall not make them afraid; " and, to crown the favour beyond what they were able to ask or think, in the fulness of time the Word itself was made flesh, and they saw his glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, not, as at Mount Sinai, full of majesty and terror, but full of grace and truth, John i.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֵלָ֑י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
הֵיטִ֖יבוּ	hei.Ti.vu	they have done well	H3190 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	[that] which	H834 →
דִּבֵּֽרוּ׃	di.Be.ru	they have spoken	H1696 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3190heitivuthey have done well117×

The walk

The walk2

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 5:28
And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that…
leads to
- Numbers 36:5
  So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.
- Numbers 27:7
  “The daughters of Zelophehad speak correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s inheritance to them.

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