Deuteronomy 18, Isaiah 38

Deuteronomy 18
- Levitical priests got their food from the Lord's food offering since they have no portion of their own.
- The Lord is the Levites' inheritance.
- The priest's dues from a sacrifice shall be the shoulder, the cheeks, and stomach of an ox or sheep.
- Firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, and fleece also go to the Levites.
- They should give to the Levites because God chose them to minister for the people.
- The Levites can move between town and shall receive an equal share
- He also receives from sales of his patrimony (The Hebrew meaning of this is uncertain)
- When they enter new lands they shouldn't follow ways of those places that are abominable.
- Abominable things include; sacrificing kids by burning them, sorcery, divination, fortune telling, necromancer, or talking to the dead.
- These things are the reason God is driving those people out of the land in the first place.
- Those people being ousted have done these things but God doesn't allow the Israelites to do those things.
- Moses tells them that God will raise up another like him to be a prophet.
- Moses reminds them of Horeb and how the people said they didn't want to hear God from the fire anymore.
- The Lord had even said there that the people were right.
- God will choose a brother to speak God's commandments to the people.
- Any prophet who speaks something God hasn't said OR speaks in the name of other God's will die.
- Moses tells they can tell if a prophet has spoken something God did NOT say because it won't come true.
- God says they shouldn't fear a false prophet.

Isaiah 38
- Hezekiah became very sick and Isaiah came to him.
- Isaiah told Hezekiah to get things in order because he was about to die.
- Hezekiah turned away and prayed for God to remember how he walked faithfully and he wept bitterly.
- God then spoke to Isaiah and told him to tell Hezekiah that He would add 15 years to Hezekiah's life.
- God also said that he'd defend Hezekiah's city against the King of Assyria.
- God gave them a sign; turning back the shadow on the sun dial of Ahaz back 10 steps.
- The sun turned back on the sun dial ten steps.
- The rest of this chapter is a letter from Hezekiah king of Judah after he recovered from his illness.
- Hezekiah recounts how he was to die in the middle of his days.
- He saw that his house would be rolled up and taken from him.
- His life was coming to an end and he calmed himself (also means cried out for help) until morning.
- His eyes were weary from looking upwards and he prayed for safety.
- He walked slowly because of the bitterness of his soul.
- Hezekiah asked God to restore his health.
- He had great bitterness for his own welfare.
- God delivered him in love.
- God has cast all of Hezekiah's sins behind His back.
- Sheol, Death, and those down in the pit without hope in God's faithfulness do not thank God.
- The living, like Hezekiah DO thank God and tell their children about God's faithfulness.
- Isaiah told Hezekiah to apply a cake of figs to the boils.
- Why did Hezekiah ask God for a sign to let him know to go up to the house of the Lord?