1 Kings 22:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.

Horns of iron

Thus saith

General references

Ezekiel 12:24

Bible References

Horns of iron

thus says the Lord to me—“Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there were four horns.

But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

Thus saith

“They keep saying to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, “You will have peace”’;
And as for everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,
They say, ‘Calamity will not come upon you.’

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsely in My name, ‘Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will slay them before your eyes.

They see

falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.

Her princes within her are like wolves tearing the prey, by shedding blood and destroying lives in order to get dishonest gain.

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Her priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”

General references

For there will no longer be any

false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.