Bible Cross References
prophesy against
Ezekiel 14:9
"If any prophets are deceived into giving a false answer, it is because I, the LORD, have deceived them. I will remove them from the people of Israel.
Ezekiel 14:10
Both prophets and anyone who consults them will get the same punishment.
Ezekiel 22:25
The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.
Ezekiel 22:28
The prophets have hidden these sins like workers covering a wall with whitewash. They see false visions and make false predictions. They claim to speak the word of the Sovereign LORD, but I, the LORD, have not spoken to them.
2 Chronicles 18:18-24
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Micaiah went on: "Now listen to what the LORD says! I saw the LORD sitting on his throne in heaven, with all his angels standing beside him.
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The LORD asked, 'Who will deceive Ahab so that he will go and get killed at Ramoth?' Some of the angels said one thing, and others said something else,
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until a spirit stepped forward, approached the LORD, and said, 'I will deceive him.' 'How?' the LORD asked.
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The spirit replied, 'I will go and make all of Ahab's prophets tell lies.' The LORD said, 'Go and deceive him. You will succeed.' "
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And Micaiah concluded: "This is what has happened. The LORD has made these prophets of yours lie to you. But he himself has decreed that you will meet with disaster!"
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Then the prophet Zedekiah went up to Micaiah, slapped his face, and asked, "Since when did the LORD's spirit leave me and speak to you?"
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"You will find out when you go into some back room to hide," Micaiah replied.
Isaiah 9:15
The old and honorable men are the head---and the tail is the prophets whose teachings are lies!
Isaiah 56:9-12
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The LORD has told the foreign nations to come like wild animals and devour his people.
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He says, "All the leaders, who are supposed to warn my people, are blind! They know nothing. They are like watch dogs that don't bark---they only lie around and dream. How they love to sleep!
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They are like greedy dogs that never get enough. These leaders have no understanding. They each do as they please and seek their own advantage.
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'Let's get some wine,' these drunkards say, 'and drink all we can hold! Tomorrow will be even better than today!' "
Jeremiah 5:31
prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?"
Jeremiah 6:13
Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly; even prophets and priests cheat the people.
Jeremiah 6:14
They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their fields to new owners and their wives to other men. Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly. Even prophets and priests cheat the people.
Jeremiah 14:13-15
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Then I said, "Sovereign LORD, you know that the prophets are telling the people that there will be no war or starvation, because you have promised, they say, that there will be only peace in our land."
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But the LORD replied, "The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.
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I, the LORD, tell you what I am going to do to those prophets whom I did not send but who speak in my name and say war and starvation will not strike this land---I will kill them in war and by starvation.
Jeremiah 23:2
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the rulers who were supposed to take care of his people: "You have not taken care of my people; you have scattered them and driven them away. Now I am going to punish you for the evil you have done.
Jeremiah 23:11-22
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The LORD says, "The prophets and the priests are godless; I have caught them doing evil in the Temple itself.
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The paths they follow will be slippery and dark; I will make them stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them; the time of their punishment is coming. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets: they have spoken in the name of Baal and have led my people astray.
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But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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"So then, this is what I, the LORD Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem: I will give them bitter plants to eat and poison to drink, because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land."
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The LORD Almighty said to the people of Jerusalem, "Do not listen to what the prophets say; they are filling you with false hopes. They tell you what they have imagined and not what I have said.
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To the people who refuse to listen to what I have said, they keep saying that all will go well with them. And they tell everyone who is stubborn that disaster will never touch them."
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I said, "None of these prophets has ever known the LORD's secret thoughts. None of them has ever heard or understood his message, or ever listened or paid attention to what he said.
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His anger is a storm, a furious wind that will rage over the heads of the wicked,
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and it will not end until he has done everything he intends to do. In days to come his people will understand this clearly."
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The LORD said, "I did not send these prophets, but even so they went. I did not give them any message, but still they spoke in my name.
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If they had known my secret thoughts, then they could have proclaimed my message to my people and could have made them give up the evil lives they live and the wicked things they do.
Jeremiah 23:25-22
Jeremiah 23:26-22
Jeremiah 27:14
Do not listen to the prophets who tell you not to surrender to him. They are deceiving you.
Jeremiah 27:18
If they are really prophets and if they have my message, let them ask me, the LORD Almighty, not to allow the treasures that remain in the Temple and in the royal palace to be taken to Babylonia."
Jeremiah 28:12-17
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Some time after this the LORD told me
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to go and tell Hananiah: "The LORD has said that you may be able to break a wooden yoke, but he will replace it with an iron yoke.
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The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, has said that he will put an iron yoke on all these nations and that they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. The LORD has said that he will make even the wild animals serve Nebuchadnezzar."
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Then I told Hananiah this, and added, "Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, and you are making these people believe a lie.
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And so the LORD himself says that he is going to get rid of you. Before this year is over you will die because you have told the people to rebel against the LORD."
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And Hananiah died in the seventh month of that same year.
Jeremiah 29:8
I, the LORD, the God of Israel, warn you not to let yourselves be deceived by the prophets who live among you or by any others who claim they can predict the future. Do not pay any attention to their dreams.
Jeremiah 29:9
They are telling you lies in my name. I did not send them. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken.'
Jeremiah 37:19
What happened to your prophets who told you that the king of Babylonia would not attack you or the country?
Lamentations 4:13
But it happened, because her prophets sinned and her priests were guilty of causing the death of innocent people.
Micah 3:6
"Prophets, your day is almost over; the sun is going down on you. Because you mislead my people, you will have no more prophetic visions, and you will not be able to predict anything."
Micah 3:11
The city's rulers govern for bribes, the priests interpret the Law for pay, the prophets give their revelations for money---and they all claim that the LORD is with them. "No harm will come to us," they say. "The LORD is with us."
Zephaniah 3:4
The prophets are irresponsible and treacherous; the priests defile what is sacred, and twist the law of God to their own advantage.
2 Peter 2:1-3
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False prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction.
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Even so, many will follow their immoral ways; and because of what they do, others will speak evil of the Way of truth.
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In their greed these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their Destroyer has been wide awake!
prophesy out of
Ezekiel 13:3
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "These foolish prophets are doomed! They provide their own inspiration and invent their own visions.
Ezekiel 13:17
The LORD said, "Now, mortal man, look at the women among your people who make up predictions. Denounce them
Jeremiah 14:14
But the LORD replied, "The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.
Jeremiah 23:16
The LORD Almighty said to the people of Jerusalem, "Do not listen to what the prophets say; they are filling you with false hopes. They tell you what they have imagined and not what I have said.
Jeremiah 23:26
How much longer will those prophets mislead my people with the lies they have invented?
Hear
Ezekiel 34:7
"Now, you shepherds, listen to what I, the LORD, am telling you.
Ezekiel 34:9
So listen to me, you shepherds.
1 Kings 22:19
Micaiah went on: "Now listen to what the LORD says! I saw the LORD sitting on his throne in heaven, with all his angels standing beside him.
Isaiah 1:10
Jerusalem, your rulers and your people are like those of Sodom and Gomorrah. Listen to what the LORD is saying to you. Pay attention to what our God is teaching you.
Isaiah 28:14
Now you arrogant leaders who rule here in Jerusalem over this people, listen to what the LORD is saying.
Jeremiah 28:15
Then I told Hananiah this, and added, "Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, and you are making these people believe a lie.
Jeremiah 29:20-24
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All of you whom I sent into exile in Babylonia, listen to what I, the LORD, say.'
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"The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, has spoken about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are telling you lies in his name. He has said that he will hand them over to the power of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, who will put them to death before your eyes.
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When the people who were taken away as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylonia want to bring a curse on someone, they will say, 'May the LORD treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylonia roasted alive!'
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This will be their fate because they are guilty of terrible sins---they have committed adultery and have told lies in the LORD's name. This was against the LORD's will; he knows what they have done, and he is a witness against them. The LORD has spoken."
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The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, gave me a message for Shemaiah of Nehelam, who had sent a letter in his own name to all the people of Jerusalem and to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah and to all the other priests. In this letter Shemaiah wrote to Zephaniah:
Jeremiah 29:31-24
Jeremiah 29:32-24
Amos 7:16
So now listen to what the LORD says. You tell me to stop prophesying, to stop raving against the people of Israel.
Amos 7:17
And so, Amaziah, the LORD says to you, 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your children will be killed in war. Your land will be divided up and given to others, and you yourself will die in a heathen country. And the people of Israel will certainly be taken away from their own land into exile.' "