Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaks in the LORD’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
21You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
1 Samuel 3:19Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
2 Kings 20:1In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”
Isaiah 41:22“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.
Jonah 3:4Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do 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 →