Deuteronomy 18:22
Whatsoever words that prophet shall speak in the name of the Lord, and they shall not come true, and not come to pass, this is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; that prophet has spoken wickedly: ye shall not spare him.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
21But if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1Every word that I command you this day, it shalt thou observe to do: thou shalt not add to it, nor diminish from it.
1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and there did not fall one of his words to the ground.
2 Kings 20:1In those days was Hezekiah sick even to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came in to him, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Give charge to thy household; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Isaiah 41:22Let them draw nigh, and declare to you what things shall come to pass; or tell us what things were of old, and we will apply our understanding, and we shall know what are the last and the future things:
Jonah 3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city about a day’s journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Zechariah 1:5Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will 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 →