18 Bible Verses about Prophecy, Inspiration Of Ot

So that ye first know this: That no prophecy in the scripture hath any private interpretation. For the scripture came never by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.

And many years didst thou forbear them, and testified unto them through thy spirit, even by the office of thy prophets, and yet would they not hear. Therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the nations in the lands.

Yea, they made their hearts as an Adamant stone lest they should hear the law and words, which the LORD of Hosts sent in his holy spirit by the prophets afore time. Wherefore the LORD of Hosts was very wroth at them.

God, in time past, diversely and many ways, spake unto the fathers by prophets:

I answered them, "The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 'Tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will suspend my sanctuary: even the glory of your power, that pleasure of your eyes, and the thing that ye love: your sons and daughters whom ye have left, shall fall through the sword.

Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

But that same night the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,

And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him again.

Then came the word of the LORD to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

And the word of God came to him, saying,

And Isaiah was scarce gone out into the middle of the city, but that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

when the LORD had first spoken with him, in the time of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his kingdom;

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

The word of the lord came unto the prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,

The twenty fourth day of the ninth month in the second year of king Darius, came the word of the LORD unto the Prophet Haggai, saying,

In the eighth month of the second year of king Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the Prophet, saying,

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: be not afeared therefore of him.

either of peace, upon many nations and great kingdoms - were proved by this, if God had sent them in very deed: when the thing came to pass, which that prophet told before."