Jeremiah 23:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

Hearken

1 John 4:1

They make

Jeremiah 2:5

2 Kings 17:15

Romans 1:21

A vision

Micah 2:11

Bible References

Hearken

But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon.

For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you, nor hearken ye to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

To err from the words of knowledge, cease, my son, to hear instruction.

But beware of FALSE prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are predatory wolves.

For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.

But even if we, or an agent from heaven, should preach a good-news to you contrary to what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but examine the spirits, whether they are of God, because many FALSE prophets have gone out into the world.

They make

Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them. And they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, c

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

A vision

I did not send these prophets, yet they ran. I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.

Then LORD said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I did not send them, nor have I commanded them, nor did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit of the

Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered [mortar], seeing FALSE visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says lord LORD, when LORD has not spoken.

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, [saying], I will prophesy to thee of wine and of strong drink, he shall even be the prophet of this people.