Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaks in the name of LORD, if the thing does not follow, nor come to pass, that is the thing which LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. Thou shall not be afraid of him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which LORD has not spoken?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives thee a sign or a wonder,
1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew, and LORD was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.
2 Kings 20:1In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus says LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shall die, and not live.
Isaiah 41:22Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them, or show us things to come.
Jonah 3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey. And he cried out, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 18:16-22
The Great Prophet; False Prophets. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a Prophet… Read the whole commentary →