2 Peter 1:21
for no prophecy originated in human ideas, but prophets spoke for God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
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Numbers 16:28Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord did send me to carry out everything I've done, for it wasn't anything I thought up.
Joshua 14:6Leaders from the tribe of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, “You remember what the Lord told Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh-barnea about me and you.
1 Kings 13:1The Lord ordered a man of God from Judah to go to Bethel. He arrived just as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar about to present a burnt offering.
1 Kings 17:24“Now I'm convinced that you are a man of God, and that what the Lord speaks through you is the truth,” the woman replied.
2 Kings 4:9She told her husband, “I'm sure that this man who regularly visits us is a holy man of God.
2 Kings 6:10So the king of Israel sent a warning to the place the man of God had indicated. Elisha repeatedly warned the king, so that he was on the alert in those places.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:20-21
Inspiration of the Scriptures. ( a. d. 67.) 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. In these words the apostle lays down another argument to prove the… Read the whole commentary →