Jeremiah 23:13

And I have seen a repulsive thing in the nevi'im of Shomron; 1 they prophesied by Ba'al, 1 and caused My people Yisroel to err. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

In Context

12Therefore their derech shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness; 1 they shall be driven on, 1 and fall therein; 1 for I will bring ra'ah upon them, 1 even the year of their visitation [for punishment], saith Hashem. 1

14I have seen also in the nevi'im of Yerushalayim a horrible thing; 1 they commit ni'uf and walk in sheker; 1 they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, 1 that none doth turn back from his wickedness; 1 they are all of them unto Me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Amora (Gomorrah). 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:19Now therefore summon, and gather to me kol Yisroel unto Har HaCarmel and the nevi'im of Ba'al four hundred and fifty, and the nevi'im haAsherah four hundred, which eat at shulchan Izevel.

1 Kings 18:25And Eliyahu said unto the nevi'im of Ba'al, Choose you one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are rabbim (many); and call on the shem eloheichem, but put no eish under it.

2 Chronicles 33:9So Menasheh made Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to be led astray, and to do rah more than the Goyim, whom Hashem had destroyed before the Bnei Yisroel.

Jeremiah 2:8The Kohanim asked not: Where is Hashem? 1 And they that handle the Torah had no da'as of Me; 1 the ro'im also rebelled against Me, 1 and the nevi'im prophesied by Ba'al, 1 and walked after worthless things. 1

Hosea 4:11Zenut (prostitution, whoredom) and yayin and tirosh 1 take away the lev (understanding). 1

Hosea 9:7The days of pekudah (visitation for divine punishment) are come, 1 the yamim of recompence are come; 1 Yisroel shall know it. 1 The navi is a fool, 1 the ish haruach (spiritual man) is meshuga, 1 for the multitude of thine iniquity 1 and great hatred. 1

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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