Micah 2:11

If someone comes to you in a spirit of falsehood and lies and says, 1 “I will prophesy to you about wine and strong drink,” 1 he would be considered to be a prophet for this people.

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If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

In Context

10Get up and leave, 1 for this is not a place where you can stay, 1 because of its uncleanness; 1 it is destroyed with complete destruction. 1

12I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob. 1 I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. 1 I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, 1 like a flock in the midst of their pasture. 1 There will be a loud noise because of the multitude of people. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or should I not?” They said, “Attack, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

2 Chronicles 18:19Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab, king of Israel, so that he may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One said this and another that.

Isaiah 30:10They say to the seers, “Do not see;” 1 and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy the truth to us; 1 speak flattering words to us, prophesy illusions.

Jeremiah 6:13Yahweh declares that from the least to the greatest, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. 1 From the prophet to the priest, all of them practice deceit. 1

Jeremiah 14:14Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy deceit in my name. I did not send them out, nor did I give them any command or speak to them. But deceitful visions and useless, deceitful divination coming from their own minds are what they are prophesying to you.”

Jeremiah 23:17They are constantly saying to those who dishonor me, 'Yahweh declares there will be peace for you.' 1 For everyone walking in the stubbornness of his own heart says, 'Disaster will not come upon you.' 1

Matthew Henry on Micah 2:7-12

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. ( b. c. 740.) 6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. 7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? 8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The… Read the whole commentary →

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