Ulangan 18:19

18:19 I will personally hold responsible ¹  anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet ²  speaks in my name.

Ulangan 18:1

Provision for Priests and Levites

18:1 The Levitical priests ³  – 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. ⁴ 

1 Raja-raja 18:32

18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. ⁵  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs ⁶  of seed.

¹ tn Heb “will seek from him”; NAB “I myself will make him answer for it”; NRSV “will hold accountable.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet mentioned in v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn The MT places the terms “priests” and “Levites” in apposition, thus creating an epexegetical construction in which the second term qualifies the first, i.e., “Levitical priests.” This is a way of asserting their legitimacy as true priests. The Syriac renders “to the priest and to the Levite,” making a distinction between the two, but one that is out of place here.

⁴ sn Of his inheritance. This is a figurative way of speaking of the produce of the land the Lord will give to his people. It is the Lord’s inheritance, but the Levites are allowed to eat it since they themselves have no inheritance among the other tribes of Israel.

⁵ tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

⁶ tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.