Jeremiah 23:27

Who think to cause my people to forget my name By the dreams which they relate one to another, As their fathers forgot my name through Baal?

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In The King James Version

Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

In Context

26How long shall this be In the heart of the prophets, who prophesy falsehood, The prophets of the deceit of their own heart,

28The prophet who hath a dream, let him tell a dream; And he that hath my word, let him speak my word truly! What is the chaff to the wheat? saith Jehovah.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 2:32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her belt? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number!

Acts 13:8But Elymas the magian (for so is his name interpreted) withstood them, seeking so turn away the proconsul from the faith.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:10-33

Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 600.) 9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord , and because of the words of his holiness. 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their… Read the whole commentary →

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