Deuteronomy 18:22
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing doth not follow, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
21And if thou shalt say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1If there shall arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and give thee a sign or a wonder.
1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.
2 Kings 20:1In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Isaiah 41:22Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they are that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come.
Jonah 3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Zechariah 1:5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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 →