Deuteronomy 18:21

And when you say in your heart, How do we know the word which YHWH has not spoken?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

In Context

20Only, the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My Name, which I have not commanded him to speak, and who speaks in the name of other gods, indeed, that prophet has died.

22That which the prophet speaks in the Name of YHWH, and the thing is not, and does not come—it [is] the word which YHWH has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it in presumption; you are not afraid of him.”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:20and all Israel knows, from Dan even to Beer-Sheba, that Samuel is established for a prophet to YHWH.

Zechariah 2:13Hush, all flesh, because of YHWH, || For He has been roused up from His holy habitation!”

1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

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 →

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