Text -- Deuteronomy 18:22 (NET)

18:22 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.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 18:22

¹ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

² tn Heb “the word,” but a predictive word is in view here. Cf. NAB “his oracle.”

³ tn Heb “does not happen or come to pass.”

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord has.” See note on the word “his” in v. 5.

⁵ tn Heb “that is the word which the Lord has not spoken.”