Jeremiah 23:28

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says the LORD.

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In The King James Version

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

In Context

27They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.

29“Isn’t my word like fire?” says the LORD; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:16The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the LORD’s name?”

Isaiah 21:10You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

Matthew 24:45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

1 Corinthians 3:12But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,

2 Corinthians 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

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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