18 Bible Verses about Prophecy, Inspiration Of Ot

recognizing this above all, that every prophecy of scripture does not come about from one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

You were patient toward them for many years, and you have warned them by your spirit through the hand of your prophets, but they did not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the nations of the lands.

{They made their hearts adamant} in order not to hear the law and the words that Yahweh of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets; [therefore] great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts.

[Although] God spoke long ago in many parts and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets,

And I said to them that the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying}, "Say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I [will be] profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength [and] the delight of your eyes and the object of your own affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword,

Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying,

But it happened {that night}, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

Now it happened that they [were] sitting at the table, and the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back.

The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

Isaiah had not gone out from the middle of the city when the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,

[to] whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

And the word of Yahweh {came} to me, saying,

And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

On [the] twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth [month], in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Haggai, saying,

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying,

[Whenever] what the prophet spoke in the name of Yahweh, the thing does not take place and [does] not come [about], that [is] the thing that Yahweh has not spoken to him. Presumptuously the prophet spoke it; you shall not fear that prophet."

The prophet who prophesies peace, at the coming of the word of the prophet, will become known [as] the prophet that Yahweh has {truly} sent."