Deuteronomy 18:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, 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.

Speaketh

Isaiah 41:22

Jeremiah 28:1

If the thing

Zechariah 1:5

Shalt not

Proverbs 26:2

General references

Deuteronomy 13:2

1 Kings 13:5

Bible References

Speaketh

Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;

As for the former events, declare what they were,
That we may consider them and know their outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming;

Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

If the thing

and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.’”

Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

He prayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Shalt not

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
So a curse without cause does not alight.

General references

and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’

The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.