Deuteronomy 18:22
That 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.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
21And when you say in your heart, How do we know the word which YHWH has not spoken?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1“When a prophet or a dreamer of a dream arises in your midst, and he has given a sign or wonder to you,
1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grows up, and YHWH has been with him, and has not let any of his words fall to the earth;
2 Kings 20:1In those days Hezekiah has been sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet comes to him and says to him, “Thus said YHWH: Give a charge to your house, for you are dying, and do not live.”
Isaiah 41:22They bring [them] near, and declare to us that which happens, || Declare the first things—what they [are], || And we set our heart, and know their latter end, || Or cause us to hear the coming things.
Jonah 3:4And Jonah begins to go into the city—a journey of one day—and proclaims and says, “Yet forty days and Nineveh is overturned!”
Zechariah 1:5Your fathers—where [are] they? And the prophets—do they live for all time?
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 →