Deuteronomy 18:21

This is what you must say in your heart: 'How will we recognize a message that Yahweh has not spoken?'

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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

20But the prophet who speaks a word arrogantly in my name, a word that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that very prophet must die.'

22You will recognize a message that Yahweh has spoken when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh. If that thing does not occur nor happen, then that is something that Yahweh has not spoken and the prophet has spoken it arrogantly, and you must not be afraid of him.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 3:20All Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was appointed to be a prophet of Yahweh.

Zechariah 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh, for he has been roused from out of his holy place!

1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out 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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