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
They make
Bible References
Hearken
Jeremiah 27:9
Therefore do not hearken unto your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your sorcerers, nor to your enchanters, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
Jeremiah 29:8
For thus hath the LORD of the hosts the God of Israel said: Let not your prophets and your diviners that are in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye dream.
Proverbs 19:27
Cease, my son, to hear the teaching that induces one to deviate from the reasons of wisdom.
Matthew 7:15
Keep yourselves also from the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For these false apostles are deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
Galatians 1:8
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be anathema.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
They make
Jeremiah 2:5
thus hath the LORD said, What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?
2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified against them, and they followed vanity and became vain and went after the Gentiles that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Romans 1:21
because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
A vision
Jeremiah 23:21
I did not send those prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I did not send them, neither have I commanded them, neither did I speak unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision, divination, vanity, and the deceit of their heart.
Ezekiel 13:3
thus hath the Lord GOD said: Woe unto the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have plastered them over with loose mud, prophesying vanity and divining lies unto them, saying: Thus hath the Lord GOD said, when the LORD has not spoken.
Micah 2:11
If there is one walking in the spirit of falsehood, he shall lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.