And God
Said ...
By W. R.
Miller
Some skeptics suggest that, according to the Bible, the prophets of God received instructions from God solely by means of visions and dreams. The implication is that visions and dreams aren’t reliable, that the prophets merely claim that they were speaking on behalf of God. In that regard, they were no different that any of the superstitious, polytheistic believers of the time.
How do we know the prophets of God were the prophets of the one, true God? How do we know they were telling the truth? These questions are answered in the following essay, “The Truthfulness of the Eyewitness Accounts as Presented in the Bible” by W. R. Miller, located here: http://www.tektonics.org/guest/truthfulness.htm. When the rules of legal evidence are applied to the books of the Bible, as one would any ancient document, we find the testimonies of the prophets and the evangelists are acceptable as valid historical evidence. This is demonstrated by Harvard law authority Simon Greenleaf in his work, The Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administrated in Courts of Justice, available online here: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGA1251.0001.001.
From their dreams and visions, did the prophets and apostles report what God had told them, or was it from their own imagination?
The apostle Peter answers that:
2
Peter 1:21
For prophecy never had its origin in the
will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
The prophet’s message was verified by the results of their prophecy. If true, it was of God. If not, it was not of God. They were wrong. They were considered to be false prophets. Under Jewish law, the law of Moses, they were executed. Appendix One cites God’s warnings regarding false prophets, and illustrates the fate of these false prophets.
Now, did God communicate solely by visions and dreams, as
skeptics contend? As the following verses demonstrate, these
skeptics have not done their homework.
Throughout history, Almighty God has manifested himself beyond just
visions, in many different ways.
1In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. 3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
This is not a comprehensive listing. Nevertheless, it is substantial enough to demonstrate the many ways God has presented Himself to mankind.
The Appearances of God
1. Adam
and Eve
2. Cain
3. Noah
a.
Noah
b.
Noah and his sons
4. Abraham
a.
Abram / Abraham at
b.
In the
c.
Abraham and Sarah at Mamre
5. Isaac
a.
At Gerar
b.
At
6. Rebekah, Isaac’s
wife
7. Jacob
a.
At
b.
At Shechem in the
c.
At Beth-el
8. Moses
a. In the flaming bush
b.
At Midian
c.
In
d.
At Sinai
e.
After the tabernacle is completed
f.
Other encounters
g.
Moses and Aaron in
h. Moses and Aaron, other encounters
i. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and
70 elders of
j.
Moses and Eleazar
k. Moses and Joshua
9. Aaron
10.
11. Balaam
12. Joshua
13. Gideon
A.
Ophrah
B.
Well of Harod
14. Samuel
A.
Samuel
B.
Samuel and Jesse
15. David
16. Ahijah
17. Shemaiah
18. Jehu
19. Elijah
20. Solomon, the priests and the children
of
21. Isaiah
22. Ahaz
23. His prophets
24. Huldah
25. Gad the seer
26. Manasseh
27. Job
28. Eliphaz the
Temanite
29. Jeremiah
30. Ezekiel
31. Hosea
32. Joel
33. Amos
34. Jonah
35. Zechariah
36. Jesus
A. Jesus and John the Baptist
B. Jesus and his disciples
Appendix One: Fate of the False Prophets
A.
The Warnings
B.
Executions
1. Elijah at
2. Josiah
1. Adam and Eve
8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid
themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the LORD God called to
Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you
eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
13 And the LORD God said to
the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the LORD God said to
the serpent:
” Because you have
done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
16 To the woman He said:
”I will greatly
multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire shall be for your
husband,
And he shall rule over you.”
17 Then to Adam He said, “Because
you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I
commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
” Cursed is
the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring
forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat
bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return.”
20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother
of all living.
21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and
clothed them.
Genesis
3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The
woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Genesis
3:14
So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed
are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on
your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis
3:22
And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing
good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from
the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
2. God appears to
Cain
Genesis
4:6
Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face
downcast?
Genesis
4:10
The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries
out to me from the ground.
Genesis
4:15
But the LORD said to him, “Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer
vengeance seven times over.” Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one
who found him would kill him.
1. Noah
a.
Noah
Genesis
6:13-22
13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me,
for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy
them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make
rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch. 15 And
this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three
hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16
You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from
above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with
lower, second, and third decks. 17 And behold, I Myself am
bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in
which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth
shall die. 18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you
shall go into the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of
every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall
be male and female. 20 Of the birds after their kind, of animals
after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two
of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21
And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather
it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them.”
22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he
did.
Genesis 7:1-6
1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your
household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me
in this generation. 2 You shall take with you seven each of every
clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are
unclean, a male and his female; 3 also seven each of birds of the
air, male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of all the earth. 4
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and
forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things
that I have made.” 5 And Noah did according to all that the LORD
commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the
floodwaters were on the earth.
Genesis
8:15-19
15 Then God spoke to Noah,
saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons
and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living
thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping
thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be
fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his
sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every animal,
every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth,
according to their families, went out of the ark.
b. Noah and his sons
Genesis
9:8-17
1 So God
blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth.[a] 2 And the fear of you and the
dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on
all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea. They are
given into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food
for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. 4 But
you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5
Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of
every beast I will require it, and from the hand of
man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will
require the life of man.
6 “ Whoever sheds man’s
blood,
By man his blood shall be shed;
For in the image of God
He made man.
7 And as for you, be fruitful
and multiply;
Bring forth abundantly in the earth
And multiply in it.”
8 Then God spoke to Noah and
to his sons with him, saying: 9 “And as for Me, behold, I
establish My covenant with you and with your descendants[b] after you, 10 and with every
living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every beast
of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ark, every beast of the earth.
11 Thus I establish My covenant with you: Never again shall all
flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood; never again shall there be a flood
to destroy the earth.”
12 And God said: “This is
the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living
creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I
set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant
between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over
the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I
will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy
all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on
it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature
of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant
which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
4. Abraham
a.
Abram / Abraham at
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Genesis 12:1 1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. 2 “I will make you into a great nation 3 I will bless those who bless you, |
Acts
7:2-3 |
Genesis
13:14-17
14 And the LORD said to Abram,
after
6 “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said. 7 “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring [a] I will give this land’-he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there. 8 If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
b.
In the
Genesis 17:1-22
1 When Abram was ninety-nine
years old, the LORD appeared to Abram
and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be
blameless. 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and
will multiply you exceedingly.” 3 Then Abram fell on his face, and
God talked with him, saying: 4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many
nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name
shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 I
will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings
shall come from you. 7 And I will establish My covenant between Me
and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting
covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. 8 Also I
give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a
stranger, all the
9 And God said to Abraham:
“As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you
throughout their generations. 10 This is My covenant which
you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male
child among you shall be circumcised; 11 and you shall be
circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the
covenant between Me and you. 12 He who is eight days old among you
shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in
your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant. 13
He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be
circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised male child, who is not
circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his
people; he has broken My covenant.”
15 Then God said to Abraham,
“As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall
be her name. 16 And I will bless her and also give you a son by
her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings
of peoples shall be from her.”
17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart,
“Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall
Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” 18 And Abraham
said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”
19 Then God said: “No,
Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will
establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his
descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you.
Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him
exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
21 But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall
bear to you at this set time next year.” 22 Then He finished talking
with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Genesis
21:12-13
12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your
sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said
to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called. 13
Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is
your seed.”
Genesis
22:1-2
1 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him,
“Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom
you love, and go to the
c.
Abraham and Sarah at Mamre
1 Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre,[a] as he was sitting in the tent door in the
heat of the day. 2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold,
three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the
tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground, 3 and said,
“My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your
servant. 4 Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet,
and rest yourselves under the tree. 5 And I will bring a morsel of
bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch
as you have come to your servant.”
They said, “Do as you have said.”
6 So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make
ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.” 7
And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a
young man, and he hastened to prepare it. 8 So he took butter and
milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it before them; and he
stood by them under the tree as they ate.
9 Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?”
So he said, “Here, in the tent.”
10 And He said, “I will
certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your
wife shall have a son.”
(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.) 11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had
passed the age of childbearing.[a] 12 Therefore Sarah laughed
within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord
being old also?”
13 And the LORD said to
Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child,
since I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the
appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah
shall have a son.”
15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she
was afraid.
And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
16 Then the men rose from there and looked toward
22 Then the men turned away from there and went toward
26 So the LORD said, “If
I find in
27 Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but
dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord: 28
Suppose there were five less than the fifty righteous; would You destroy all of
the city for lack of five?”
So He said, “If I find there forty-five,
I will not destroy it.”
29 And he spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose there should be
forty found there?”
So He said, “I will not do it for
the sake of forty.”
30 Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Suppose
thirty should be found there?”
So He said, “I will not do it if I
find thirty there.”
31 And he said, “Indeed now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to
the Lord: Suppose twenty should be found there?”
So He said, “I will not destroy it
for the sake of twenty.”
32 Then he said, “Let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but
once more: Suppose ten should be found there?”
And He said, “I will not destroy it
for the sake of ten.” 33 So the LORD went His way as soon as He had
finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.
5. Isaac
a.
At Gerar
Genesis 26:1-6
1 There was a famine in the
land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went
to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
2 Then the LORD appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to
6 So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
a.
At
Genesis 26:23-25
23 Then he went up from there to
6. Rebekah, Isaac’s wife
Genesis
25:23
19 This is the genealogy of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham
begot Isaac. 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as
wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan
23 And the LORD said to her:
”Two nations are
in your womb,
Two peoples shall be separated from your
body;
One people shall be stronger than
the other,
And the older shall serve the younger.”
24 So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth,
indeed there were twins in her womb.
7. Jacob
a.
At
Genesis
31:3
Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to
your relatives, and I will be with you.”
b. At Shechem in the
Genesis
35:1
Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to
c. At Beth-el
Genesis 35:6-15
6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is,
8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below
9 Then God appeared to Jacob
again, when he came from Padan
8. Moses
a. At the flaming bush
Exodus 3
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his
father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the
desert, and came to Horeb, the
4 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the
bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
5 Then He said, “Do not
draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you
stand is holy ground.” 6 Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was
afraid to look upon God.
7 And the LORD said: “I
have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to
Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of
12 So He said, “I will
certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent
you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this
mountain.”
13 Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the
children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to
you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
14 And God said to Moses,
“I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of
Acts
7:33
“Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals; the place where you
are standing is holy ground.
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30At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32’I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[a]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” |
Mark
12:26 |
Exodus
4:1-17
1 Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they
will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The LORD has not
appeared to you.’”
2 So the LORD said to him,
“What is that in your hand?”
He said, “A rod.”
3 And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So
he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. 4
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Reach
out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached out his hand and
caught it, and it became a rod in his hand), 5 “that they may
believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
6 Furthermore the LORD said
to him, “Now put your hand in your bosom.” And he put his hand in his
bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow.
7 And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of
his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his other flesh. 8
“Then it will be, if they do not believe you, nor heed the message of the first
sign, that they may believe the message of the latter sign. 9 And it
shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or listen to your voice,
that you shall take water from the river[a] and pour it on the dry land.
The water which you take from the river will become blood on the dry land.”
10 Then Moses said to the LORD, “O my Lord, I am not
eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am
slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
11 So the LORD said to him,
“Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the
blind? Have not I, the LORD? 12 Now therefore, go, and I will
be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”
13 But he said, “O my Lord, please send by the hand of whomever else
You may send.”
14 So the anger of the LORD
was kindled against Moses, and He said: “Is not Aaron the Lemvite your
brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet
you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. 15 Now you
shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your
mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. 16
So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth
for you, and you shall be to him as God. 17 And you shall take this
rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”
b.
At Midian
Exodus
4:19-23
19 Now the LORD said to Moses
in Midian, “Go, return to
21 And the LORD said to Moses,
“When you go back to
c. In
Exodus 6
28 And it came to pass, on the day the LORD spoke to Moses in the
30 But Moses said before the LORD, “Behold, I am of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?”
Exodus
7:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses
to let the people go.
Exodus
7:19
The LORD said to Moses, “Tell
Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over
the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs’-and they will
turn to blood. Blood will be everywhere in
Exodus
8:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is
what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Exodus
8:5
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with
your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the
Exodus
8:16
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and
strike the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the
Exodus
8:20
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and confront
Pharaoh as he goes to the water and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says:
Let my people go, so that they may worship me.
Exodus
9:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is
what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, so that they
may worship me.”
Exodus
9:13
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get
up early in the morning, confront Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the
LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship
me,
Exodus
9:22
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so
that hail will fall all over
Exodus
10:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go
to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so
that I may perform these miraculous signs of mine among them
Exodus
10:12
And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over
Exodus
10:21
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so
that darkness will spread over
Exodus
12:1
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in
Exodus
12:43
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the
Passover: “No foreigner is to eat of it.
Exodus
13:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
13:17
When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the
Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face
war, they might change their minds and return to
“
Exodus
14:1
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
14:15
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the
Israelites to move on.
Exodus
14:26
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that
the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
d. At Sinai
Exodus 19:16-24
16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there
were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the
sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in
the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp
to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now
21 And the LORD said to Moses,
“Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to gaze at the LORD, and
many of them perish. 22 Also let the priests who come near the LORD
consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.”
23 But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up to Mount
Sinai; for You warned us, saying, ‘Set bounds around the mountain and
consecrate it.’”
24 Then the LORD said to him,
“Away! Get down and then come up, you and Aaron with you. But do not let the
priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest He break out
against them.”
Exodus
20:1-17
1 And God
spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the
3 “You shall have no other gods
before Me.
4 “You shall not make for
yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve
them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of
those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who
love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name
of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless
who takes His name in vain.
8 “ Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do
all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor
your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six
days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is
in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the
LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
12 “ Honor
your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the
LORD your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit
adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your
neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male
servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is
your neighbor’s.”
Matthew
15:4
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his
father or mother must be put to death.’
Exodus
20:22-26
22 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children
of
Exodus
25:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
30:11
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
30:17
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
30:22
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
30:34
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha and
galbanum—and pure frankincense, all in equal amounts,
Exodus
31:1
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
31:12
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
32:7
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you
brought up out of
Exodus
32:9
“I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a
stiff-necked people.
Exodus
33:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you
brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
Exodus
33:7-22
7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the
camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came
to pass that everyone who sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of
meeting which was outside the camp. 8 So it was, whenever
Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man
stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the
tabernacle. 9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the
tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of
the tabernacle, and the LORD
talked with Moses. 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud
standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped,
each man in his tent door. 11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a
man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant
Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
12 Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You
say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will
send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found
grace in My sight.’ 13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace
in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find
grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My
Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us,
do not bring us up from here. 16 For how then will it be known that
Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the
people who are upon the face of the earth.”
17 So the LORD said to Moses,
“I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My
sight, and I know you by name.”
18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
19 Then He said, “I will
make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD
before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have
compassion on whom I will have compassion.” 20 But He said, “You
cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” 21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by
Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My
glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover
you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand,
and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
Exodus
34:1-3
1 And the
LORD said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones,
and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first
tablets which you broke. 2 So be ready in the morning, and come up
in the morning to
Exodus
34:10
Then the LORD said: “I am
making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never
before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see
how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you.
Exodus
34:27
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance
with these words I have made a covenant with you and with
Exodus
34:29
When Moses came down from
Leviticus
25:1
The LORD said to Moses on
Leviticus
27:1
The LORD said to Moses,
e.
After the tabernacle is completed
Exodus
40:1
Then
the LORD said to Moses:
Leviticus 1:1
1 Now the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him from the tabernacle of meeting, saying,
Leviticus
4:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
5:14
The LORD said to Moses:
Leviticus
6:1
The LORD said to Moses:
Leviticus
6:8
The LORD said to Moses:
Leviticus
6:24
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
7:22
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
7:28
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
8:1
The LORD said to Moses,
f. Other occurances
Exodus
16:4
Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for
you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this
way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.
Exodus
16:11
The LORD said to Moses,
Exodus
16:28
Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my
commands and my instructions?
Exodus
17:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be
remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot
out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
Exodus
19:9
The LORD said to Moses, “I am
going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking
with you and will always put their trust in you.” Then Moses told the LORD
what the people had said.
Exodus
19:10
And the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today
and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes
Leviticus
16:1
The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron
who died when they approached the LORD.
Leviticus
16:2
The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he
chooses into the
Leviticus
17:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
18:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
19:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
20:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
21:1
The LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and
say to them: ‘A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of
his people who die,
Leviticus
21:16
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
22:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
22:17
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
22:26
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
23:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
23:9
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
23:23
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
23:26
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
23:33
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
24:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
24:13
Then the LORD said to Moses:
Numbers
3:5
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
3:14
The LORD said to Moses in the
Numbers
3:40
The LORD said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn Israelite males who are
a month old or more and make a list of their names.
Numbers
4:21
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
5:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
5:5
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
5:11
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
6:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
6:22
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
7:4
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
8:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
8:5
The LORD said to Moses:
Numbers
8:23
The LORD said to Moses,
1 The LORD spoke to Moses in
the
Numbers
9:9
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
10:1
The LORD said to Moses:
Numbers
10:29
Now Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We
are setting out for the place about which the LORD said, ‘I will give it
to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised
good things to
Numbers
13:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
14:11
The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with
contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the
miraculous signs I have performed among them?
Numbers
18:25
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
20:7
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
21:8
The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone
who is bitten can look at it and live.”
Numbers
21:16
From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to
Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”
Numbers
21:34
The LORD said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him
over to you, with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon
king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”
Numbers
25:4
The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them
and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD’s fierce
anger may turn away from
Numbers
25:10
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
25:16
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
26:52
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
27:6
and the LORD said to him,
Numbers
27:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim range
and see the land I have given the Israelites.
Numbers
27:18
So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of
Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand on him.
Numbers
28:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
31:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
31:25
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
33:50
On the plains of
Numbers
34:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
34:16
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
35:1
On the plains of
Numbers
35:9
Then the LORD said to Moses:
Deuteronomy
1:5-7
5 East of the
6 The LORD our God said to us
at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7 Break
camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the
neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills,
in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to
Deuteronomy
1:42
But the LORD said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I
will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.’ “
Deuteronomy
2:2
Then the LORD said to me,
Deuteronomy
2:9
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to
war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the
descendants of
Deuteronomy
2:13
And the LORD said, “Now get up and cross the
Deuteronomy
2:17
the LORD said to me,
Deuteronomy
2:31
The LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country
over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”
Deuteronomy
3:2
The LORD said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him
over to you with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon
king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”
Deuteronomy
3:26
But because of you the LORD was angry with me and would not listen to me. “That
is enough,” the LORD said. “Do not speak to me anymore about this
matter.
Deuteronomy
9:13
And the LORD said to me, “I
have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!
Deuteronomy
10:1
At that time the LORD said to me,
“Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the
mountain. Also make a wooden chest.
Deuteronomy
10:11
“Go,” the LORD said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that
they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give
them.”
Deuteronomy
18:17
The LORD said to me: “What they say is good.
Deuteronomy
31:3
The LORD your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these
nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also
will cross over ahead of you, as the LORD said.
g. Moses and Aaron in
Exodus
6:1-13
1 Then the
LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with
a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong
hand he will drive them out of his land.”
2 And God spoke to Moses and
said to him: “I am the LORD.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name LORD[a] I was not known to them. 4 I
have also established My covenant with them, to give them the
10 And the LORD spoke to
Moses, saying, 11 “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of
12 And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “The children of
13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a command
for the children of
Exodus
6:26-28
26 These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring out the children
of
28 And it came to pass, on the day the LORD spoke to Moses in the
Exodus
7:1
Then the LORD said to Moses,
“See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your
prophet.
h.
God appears to Moses and Aaron, other encounters
Exodus
7:8
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Exodus
9:8
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a
furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh.
Leviticus
10:3
Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of when he
said: “‘Among those who approach me I will show myself holy; in the sight of
all the people I will be honored.’ “Aaron remained silent.
Leviticus
10:8
Then the LORD said to Aaron,
Leviticus
11:1
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Leviticus
12:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
13:1
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Leviticus
14:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus
14:33
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Leviticus
15:1
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the
Numbers
2:1
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Numbers
4:1
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Numbers
4:17
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers 12:1-15
1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2 “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard this.
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
4 At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the Tent of
Meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them came
out. 5 Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the
entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped
forward, 6 he said, “Listen
to my words:
“When a prophet
of the LORD is among you,
I reveal myself to him in visions,
I speak to him in dreams.
7 But this is not true of my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.
8
With him I speak face to face,
clearly and not in riddles;
he
sees the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?”
9 The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.
10 When the cloud lifted from above the Tent, there stood Miriam—leprous, [a] like snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy; 11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”
13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
14 The LORD replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.” 15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
Numbers
14:26
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Numbers
14:35
I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these
things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me.
They will meet their end in this desert; here they will die.”
Numbers
15:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
15:17
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
15:35
Then the LORD said to Moses,
“The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp.”
Numbers
15:37
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
16:20
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers
16:23
Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
16:36
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
16:44
and the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
17:1
The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers
17:10
The LORD said to Moses, “Put back Aaron’s staff in front of the
Testimony, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious. This will put an end to
their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.”
Numbers
19:1
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Numbers
20:12
But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me
enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring
this community into the land I give them.”
Numbers
20:23
At Mount Hor, near the border of
i.
Moses and Eleazar
Numbers
26:1
After the plague the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the
priest,
j. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and 70 elders of
Exodus 24:9-11
9 Moses and Aaron, Nadab and
Abihu, and the seventy elders of
Numbers
11:16
The LORD said to Moses: “Bring me seventy of
Numbers
11:25
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he
took of the Spirit that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders.
When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again.
k.
Moses and Joshua
Deuteronomy
31:14-16
14 Then the LORD said to
Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die; call Joshua, and
present yourselves in the tabernacle of meeting, that I may inaugurate him.”
So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in
the tabernacle of meeting. 15 Now the LORD appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the
pillar of cloud stood above the door of the tabernacle.
16 And the LORD said to Moses:
“Behold, you will rest with your fathers; and this people will rise and play
the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be
among them, and they will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made
with them.
Deuteronomy
34:1-4
1 Then Moses went up from the plains of
9. Aaron
27 And the LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the
wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him on
the
Numbers
18:1
The LORD said to Aaron, “You, your sons and your father’s family are to
bear the responsibility for offenses against the sanctuary, and you and your
sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses against the priesthood.
Numbers
18:8
Then the LORD said to Aaron, “I
myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy
offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion
and regular share.
Numbers
18:20
The LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor
will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among
the Israelites.
10. God appears to
Deuteronomy
4:12
Then the LORD spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound
of words but saw no form; there was only a voice.
Deuteronomy
4:15
You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at
Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very
carefully,
Deuteronomy
5:4-23
4 The LORD spoke to you face
to face out of the fire on the mountain. 5 (At that time I stood
between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you
were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:
6 “I am the LORD your God, who
brought you out of
7 “You shall have no other gods before [a] me.
8 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
12 “Observe the Sabbath day by
keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. 13 Six days
you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a
Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor
your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your
donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your
manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do. 15 Remember that you
were slaves in
16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
17 “You shall not murder.
18 “You shall not commit adultery.
19 “You shall not steal.
20 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
21 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
22 These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.
23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leading men of your tribes and your elders came to me.
Deuteronomy
5:28-32
28 “Then the LORD heard the voice of your words when you spoke to
me, and the LORD said to me: ‘I have
heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken to you. They
are right in all that they have spoken. 29 Oh, that they had
such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My
commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever! 30
Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.” 31 But as for you, stand
here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the
judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the
land which I am giving them to possess.’
32 “Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has
commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33
You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that
you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may
prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
1 Then the Angel of the LORD
came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: “I led you up from
5 Then they called the name of that place Bochim;[b] and they sacrificed there to the LORD.
11. Balaam
Numbers
22:9-13
9 Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with
you?”
10 So Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of
12 And God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall
not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
13 So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak,
“Go back to your land, for the LORD has refused to give me permission to go
with you.”
12. Joshua
Joshua
1:1-2
1 After the death of Moses the servant of the
LORD, it came to pass that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’
assistant, saying: 2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore,
arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am
giving to them—the children of
Joshua
3:7
And the LORD said to Joshua,
“Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all
Joshua
4:1
When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to
Joshua,
Joshua
4:15
Then the LORD said to Joshua,
Joshua
5:2
At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the
Israelites again.”
Joshua
5:9
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of
Joshua
6:2
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered
Joshua
7:10
The LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! What are you doing down on
your face?
Joshua
8:1
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered
into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.
Joshua
8:18
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is
in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So
Joshua held out his javelin toward Ai.
Joshua
10:8
The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them; I have given
them into your hand. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.”
Joshua
11:6
The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by
this time tomorrow I will hand all of them over to
Joshua
13:1
When Joshua was old and well advanced in years, the LORD said to him,
“You are very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken
over.
Joshua
20:1
Then the LORD said to Joshua:
13. Gideon
A. Ophrah
11 Now the Angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!”
13 Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, [Hebrew adoni, used of man] if the LORD is
with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His
miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up
from
14 Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours,
and you shall save
15 So he said to Him, “O my Lord, [Hebrew Adonai, used of
God] how can I save
16 And the LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you
shall defeat the Midianites as one man.”
17 Then he said to Him, “If now I have found favor in Your sight,
then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me. 18 Do not
depart from here, I pray, until I come to You and bring out my offering and set
it before You.”
And He said, “I will wait until you
come back.”
19 So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat, and unleavened bread
from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a
pot; and he brought them out to Him under the terebinth tree and
presented them. 20 The Angel of God said to him, “Take the
meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out
the broth.” And he did so.
21 Then the Angel of the LORD put out the end of the staff that was
in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire rose out
of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of
the LORD departed out of his sight.
22 Now Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the LORD. So Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For I have seen the Angel
of the LORD face to face.”
23 Then the LORD said to him,
“Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.” 24 So
Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it The-LORD-Is-Peace.
[Hebrew YHWH Shalom] To this day it is still in Ophrah of the
Abiezrites.
25 Now it came to pass the same night that the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second
bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has,
and cut down the wooden image [Hebrew Asherah, a Canaanite goddess] that
is beside it; 26 and build an altar to the LORD your God on
top of this rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer
a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down.”
B. Well of Harod
Judges 7:1-12
1 Then Jerubbaal (that is,
Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped
beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north
side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
2 And the LORD said to
Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to
give the Midianites into their hands, lest
4 But the LORD said to Gideon,
“The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and
I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to
you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever
I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.” 5
So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with
his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise
everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” 6 And the number of
those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred
men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water. 7
Then the LORD said to Gideon, “By
the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites
into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place.” 8
So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent
away all the rest of
9 It happened on the same night that the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have
delivered it into your hand. 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go
down to the camp with Purah your servant, 11 and you shall hear what
they say; and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the
camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men
who were in the camp. 12 Now the Midianites and Amalekites,
all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts;
and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in
multitude.
14. Samuel
A.
Samuel
1
Samuel 3:10-14
10 Now the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, “Samuel!
Samuel!”
And Samuel answered, “Speak, for Your servant hears.”
11 Then the LORD said to Samuel: “Behold, I will do something in
1
Samuel 9:15-18
15 Now the LORD had told
Samuel in his ear the day before Saul came, saying, 16 “Tomorrow about this time I will send you a
man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him commander over My
people Israel, that he may save My people from the hand of the Philistines; for
I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”
17 So when Samuel saw Saul, the
LORD said to him, “There he is, the man of whom I spoke to you. This one
shall reign over My people.” 18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the
gate, and said, “Please tell me, where is the seer’s house?”
1
Samuel 10:22
So they inquired further of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD said, “Yes, he has
hidden himself among the baggage.”
1
Samuel 15:16
“Stop!” Samuel said to Saul. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me
last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.
1
Samuel 16:1-7
1 Now the
LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have
rejected him from reigning over
2 And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will
kill me.”
But the LORD said, “Take a heifer
with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’ 3 Then
invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall
anoint for Me the one I name to you.”
4 So Samuel did what the LORD said, and went to
5 And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.
Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated
Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.
6 So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely
the LORD’s anointed is before Him!”
7 But the LORD said to Samuel,
“Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have
refused him. For the LORD does not see as man sees;[a] for man looks at the outward appearance,
but the LORD looks at the heart.”
B. Samuel and Jesse
1
Samuel 16:12
So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and
handsome features. Then the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him; he is the
one.”
15. David
1
Samuel 23:11
Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me to him? Will Saul come down, as your
servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, tell your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will.”
1
Samuel 23:12
Again David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men to
Saul?” And the LORD said, “They
will.”
1
Samuel 24:4
The men said, “This is the day the LORD
spoke of when he said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands
for you to deal with as you wish.’ “ Then David crept
up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
2
Samuel 2:1
In the course of time, David inquired of the LORD. “Shall I go up to one of the
towns of
2
Samuel 5:2
In the past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led
2
Samuel 16:10
But the king said, “What do you and I have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? If
he is cursing because the LORD said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why
do you do this?’ “
2
Samuel 21:1
During the reign of David, there was a
famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD
said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because
he put the Gibeonites to death.”
1
Kings 8:18
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to
build a temple for my Name, you did well to have this in your heart.
1
Kings 11:9-13
9 The LORD became angry with Solomon because his
heart had turned away from the LORD, the
God of
1
Chronicles 11:1-2
1 All Israel came together to David at
1
Chronicles 28:2-3
2 King David rose to his feet and said: “Listen
to me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a
place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, for the footstool of our
God, and I made plans to build it. 3 But God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for my Name,
because you are a warrior and have shed blood.’
2
Chronicles 6:8
But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to
build a temple for my Name, you did well to have this in your heart.
Psalm
60:6
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out
Shechem and measure off the
Psalm
62:11
One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard:
that you, O God, are strong,
Psalm
110:1
The LORD said to my Lord,”Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
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Matthew
22:44 |
Mark
12:36 |
Luke
20:42 |
Acts
2:34 |
16. Ahijah
1 Kings 11:29-39
29 About that time Jeroboam
was going out of
34 “ ‘But I will not
take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand; I have made him ruler all the
days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who
observed my commands and statutes. 35 I will take the kingdom from
his son’s hands and give you ten tribes. 36 I will give one tribe to
his son so that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in
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1
Kings 12:15 |
2
Chronicles 10:15 |
God speaks to Ahijah
1
Kings 14:11
1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
2 and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you
won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to
6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her
footsteps at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why this pretense?
I have been sent to you with bad news. 7 Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of
10 “ ‘Because of
this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off
from Jeroboam every last male in
12 “As for you, go back home. When you set
foot in your city, the boy will die. 13 All
14 “The LORD will raise up for himself a king
over
17. Shemaiah
1 Kings 12:22-24
22 But this word of God came
to Shemaiah the man of God: 23 “Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king
of
18. Jehu
1 Kings 16:1-4
1 Then the word of the LORD
came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha: 2 “I lifted you up from
the dust and made you leader of my people
1 Kings 16:7
7 Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger by the things he did, and becoming like the house of Jeroboam—and also because he destroyed it.
1
Kings 16:12
So Zimri destroyed the whole family of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken against
Baasha through the prophet Jehu-
2
Kings 10:30
The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in
accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have done to the house of Ahab all I
had in mind to do, your descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the
fourth generation.”
2
Kings 15:12
So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Your descendants will sit on
the throne of
19. Elijah
1 Kings 19:3-18
3 Elijah was afraid [Or Elijah saw] and ran for his life. When he came
to
All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get
up and eat.” 6 He looked around, and there by his head was a cake of
bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay
down again.
7 The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank.
Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty
nights until he reached Horeb, the
And the word of the LORD came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
10 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
11 The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of
the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.”
Then a great and powerful wind tore the
mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not
in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in
the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD
was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 13
When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood
at the mouth of the cave.
Then
a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
14 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, broken down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
15 The LORD said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the
1 Kings 21:17-29
17 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite: 18
“Go down to meet Ahab king of
20 Ahab said to Elijah, “So
you have found me, my enemy!”
”I have found you,”
he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the
LORD. 21 ‘I am going to bring disaster on you. I will consume your
descendants and cut off from Ahab every last male in
23 “And also concerning Jezebel the LORD says: ‘Dogs will devour Jezebel by the wall of [Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 9:26) the plot of ground at] Jezreel.’
24 “Dogs will eat those belonging to Ahab who die in the city, and the birds of the air will feed on those who die in the country.”
25 (There was never a man like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, urged on by Jezebel his wife. 26 He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the LORD drove out before Israel.)
27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
28 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite: 29
“Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has
humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it
on his house in the days of his son.”
2
Kings 9:36
They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This
is the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Elijah the
Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.
2
Kings 10:17
When Jehu came to
20. Solomon, the priests and the children of
2 Chronicles 7:1-3
1 When Solomon had finished
praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the
sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD
filled the temple.[a] 2 And the priests could not
enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD’s
house. 3 When all the
children of
”For He is good,
For His mercy endures forever.”[b]
21. Isaiah
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2
Kings 19:20-34 22 Who is it you have
insulted and blasphemed? 23 By your messengers 24 I have dug wells in
foreign lands 25 “ ‘Have
you not heard? 26 Their people, drained of
power, 27 “ ‘But
I know where you stay 28 Because you rage against
me 29 “This will be the sign
for you, O Hezekiah: 30 Once more a remnant of
the house of 31 For out of 32 “Therefore this is what
the LORD says concerning the king of 33 By the way that he came
he will return; 34 I will defend this city
and save it, |
Isaiah
37:21-35 23 Who is it you have
insulted and blasphemed? 24 By your messengers 25 I have dug wells in
foreign lands [c] 26 “Have you not heard? 27 Their people, drained of
power, 28 “But I know where you
stay 29 Because you rage against
me 30 “This will be the sign
for you, O Hezekiah: 31 Once more a remnant of
the house of 32 For out of 33 “Therefore this is what
the LORD says concerning the king of 34 By the way that he came
he will return; 35 “I will defend this city
and save it, |
1 In the year that King Uzziah
died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his
robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each with six
wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their
feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one
another:
“Holy, holy, holy
is the LORD Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
Isaiah
7:3-9
3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and
your son Shear-Jashub, [b] to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of
the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field. 4 Say to him, ‘Be
careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two
smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and
“ ‘It will not
take place,
it will not happen,
8 for the head of
and the head of
Within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a
people.
9 The head of Ephraim is
and the head of
If you do not stand firm in your faith,
you will not stand at all.’ “
Isaiah
8:1
The LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an
ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
Isaiah
8:3
Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
Isaiah
8:5
The LORD spoke to me
again:
Isaiah
8:11
The LORD spoke to me
with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people.
He said:
Isaiah
16:13
This is the word the LORD has already spoken concerning
Isaiah
20:2
at that time the LORD spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the
sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going
around stripped and barefoot.
Isaiah
20:3
Then the LORD said, “Just as
my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and
portent against
Isaiah
22:25
“In that day,” declares the LORD Almighty, “the peg driven
into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and
the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The
LORD has spoken.
Matthew
3:3
This is he who was spoken of
through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the
way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’ “
22. Ahaz
Isaiah
7:10
Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz,
23. Prophets
9 But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
10 The LORD said through his
servants the prophets: 11 “Manasseh king of
24. Huldah
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2
Kings 22:14-20 15 She said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel,
says: Tell the man who sent you to me, 16 ‘This is what the LORD says: I am
going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything
written in the book the king of Judah has read. 17 Because they
have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by
all the idols their hands have made, [a] my anger will burn against this place and
will not be quenched.’ 18 Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to
inquire of the LORD, ‘This is what the
LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard: 19
Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD
when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people, that
they would become accursed and laid waste, and because you tore your robes
and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD. 20
Therefore I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be buried in peace.
Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.’ “
|
2
Chronicles 34:22-28 23 She said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who
sent you to me, 24 ‘This is what the LORD says: I am going to
bring disaster on this place and its people—all the curses written in the
book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah. 25
Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked
me to anger by all that their hands have made, [e] my anger will be poured out on this place
and will not be quenched.’ 26 Tell the king of Judah, who sent you
to inquire of the LORD, ‘This is what
the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard: 27
Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when
you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you
humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I
have heard you, declares the LORD. 28 Now I will gather you to
your fathers, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the
disaster I am going to bring on this place and on those who live here.’ “ |
25. Gad the seer
1
Chronicles 21:9-10
The LORD said to Gad, David’s seer, 10 “Go and tell
David, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am giving you three options. Choose one
of them for me to carry out against you.’ “
26. Manasseh
2
Chronicles 33:10
The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no
attention.
27. Job
Job
40:1
The LORD said to Job:
Job
40:6
Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm:
28. Eliphaz the
Temanite
Job
42:7
After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the
Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my
servant Job has.
29. Jeremiah
Jeremiah
1
1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one
of the priests at Anathoth in the
4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew [a] you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the
nations.”
6 “Ah, Sovereign LORD,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.”
7 But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. 8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “Now, I have put my words in your mouth. 10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”
11 The word of the LORD came to me: “What do
you see, Jeremiah?”
”I see the branch
of an almond tree,” I replied.
12 The LORD said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching [b] to see that my word is fulfilled.”
13 The word of the LORD came to me again: “What
do you see?”
”I see a boiling
pot, tilting away from the north,” I answered.
14 The LORD said to me, “From the north
disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land. 15 I am
about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms,” declares the LORD.
“Their kings will come and set up their
thrones
in the entrance of the gates of
they will come against all her surrounding
walls
and against all the towns of
16 I will pronounce my judgments on my people
because of their wickedness in forsaking
me,
in burning incense to other gods
and in worshiping what their hands have
made.
17 “Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them. 18 Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land. 19 They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah
3:11
The LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than
unfaithful
Jeremiah
5:14
Therefore this is what the LORD God Almighty says: “Because
the people have spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a
fire and these people the wood it consumes.
Jeremiah
7:13
While you were doing all these things, declares
the LORD, I spoke to you again and again, but
you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer.
Jeremiah
9:13
The LORD said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I
set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.
Jeremiah
11:6
The LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of
Jeremiah
11:9
Then the LORD said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of
Jeremiah
13:1
This
is what the LORD said to me:
“Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch
water.”
Jeremiah
13:6
Many days later the LORD said to me, “Go now to Perath
and get the belt I told you to hide there.”
Jeremiah
14:11
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this
people.
Jeremiah
14:14
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my
name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are
prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of
their own minds.
Jeremiah
15:1
Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand
before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my
presence! Let them go!
Jeremiah
15:11
The LORD said, “Surely I will deliver you
for a good purpose; surely I will make your enemies plead with you in times of
disaster and times of distress.
Jeremiah
17:19
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people,
through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other
gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah
27:2
This is what the LORD said to me: “Make a yoke out of straps and
crossbars and put it on your neck.
Jeremiah
30:2
“This is what the LORD, the God of
Jeremiah
30:4
These are the words the LORD spoke
concerning
Jeremiah
35:17
“Therefore, this is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of
Jeremiah
36:4
So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the
words the LORD had spoken to
him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.
Jeremiah
45:4
The LORD said, “Say this to him: ‘This
is what the LORD says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I
have planted, throughout the land.
Jeremiah
46:13
This is the message the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of
Nebuchadnezzar king of
Jeremiah
50:1
This is the word the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning
30. Ezekiel
Ezekiel
4:13
The LORD said, “In this way
the people of
Ezekiel
5:15
You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the
nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and
with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken.
Ezekiel
5:17
I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you
childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the
sword against you. I the LORD have spoken.”
Ezekiel
10:2
The LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the wheels
beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the
cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.
Ezekiel
11:2
The LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who are
plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city.
Ezekiel
17:24
All the trees of the field will know that I the LORD bring down the tall
tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry
tree flourish. “‘I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.’ “
Ezekiel
21:17
I too will strike my hands together, and my wrath will subside. I the LORD have spoken.”
Ezekiel
21:32
You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will
be remembered no more; for I the LORD have spoken.’ “
Ezekiel
22:14
Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the LORD have spoken,
and I will do it.
Ezekiel
23:34
You will drink it and drain it dry; you will dash it to pieces and tear your
breasts. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel
23:36
The LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and
Oholibah? Then confront them with their detestable practices,
Ezekiel
24:14
“ ‘I the LORD have spoken.
The time has come for me to act. I will not hold back; I will not have pity,
nor will I relent. You will be judged according to your conduct and your
actions, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
Ezekiel
26:5
Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken,
declares the Sovereign LORD.
She will become plunder for the nations,
Ezekiel
26:14
I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets.
You will never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel
28:10
You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
Ezekiel
30:12
I will dry up the streams of the
Ezekiel
34:24
I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among
them. I the LORD have spoken.
Ezekiel
36:5
this is what the Sovereign LORD
says: In my burning zeal I have spoken
against the rest of the nations, and against all
Ezekiel
36:36
Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have
replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.’
Ezekiel
37:14
I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your
own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD.’ “
Ezekiel
38:17
“ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you not the one I spoke
of in former days by my servants the prophets of
Ezekiel
39:5
You will fall in the open field, for I
have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel
39:8
It is coming! It will surely take place, declares
the Sovereign LORD. This is the day I have spoken of.
Ezekiel
44:2
The LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It must not be
opened; no one may enter through it. It is to remain shut because the LORD, the
God of Israel, has entered through it.
Ezekiel
44:5
The LORD said to me, “Son of man, look carefully, listen closely
and give attention to everything I tell you concerning all the regulations
regarding the temple of the LORD. Give attention to the entrance of the temple
and all the exits of the sanctuary.
31. Hosea
Hosea
1:2
When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, “Go, take to yourself an
adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of
the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD.”
Hosea
1:4
Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon
punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to
the
Hosea
1:6
Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to Hosea,
“Call her Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer show love to the house of
Hosea
1:9
Then the LORD said, “Call him
Lo-Ammi, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
Hosea
3:1
The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again,
though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves
the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin
cakes.”
32. Joel
Joel
3:8
I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of
33. Amos
Amos
3:1
Hear this word the LORD has spoken against you, O people of
Amos
3:8
The lion has roared— who will not fear? The
Sovereign LORD has spoken— who can but prophesy?
Amos
7:3
So the LORD relented. “This will not happen,” the LORD said.
Amos
7:6
So the LORD relented. “This will not happen either,” the Sovereign LORD said.
Amos
7:8
And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then
the Lord said, “Look, I am
setting a plumb line among my people
Amos
8:2
“What do you see, Amos?” he asked. “A basket of ripe fruit,” I answered. Then the LORD
said to me, “The time is ripe for my people
34. Jonah
2
Kings 14:25
He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the
Sea of the Arabah, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel,
spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath
Hepher.
Jonah
1:1
The word of the LORD came to Jonah son
of Amittai:
Jonah
3:1
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah
a second time:
Jonah
4:8-10
8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun
blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It
would be better for me to die than to live.”
9 But God said to Jonah, “Do you have a right
to be angry about the vine?”
”I do,” he said. “I
am angry enough to die.”
10 But the LORD said, “You have been concerned about this vine, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.
35. Zechariah
Zechariah 1:1-6
1 In the eighth month of the second year of
Darius, the word of the LORD came to the
prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, the son of Iddo:
2 “The LORD was very angry with your forefathers. 3 Therefore tell the people: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Return to me,’ declares the LORD Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the LORD Almighty. 4 Do not be like your forefathers, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the LORD. 5 Where are your forefathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your forefathers?
Zechariah
8
1 Again the word of the LORD Almighty came to me.
2 This is what the LORD
Almighty says: “I am very jealous for
3 This
is what the LORD says: “I will return to
4 This
is what the LORD Almighty says: “Once again men and women of ripe old age
will sit in the streets of
6 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?” declares the LORD Almighty.
7 This
is what the LORD Almighty says: “I will save my people from the countries
of the east and the west. 8 I will bring them back to live in
9 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “You who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were there when the foundation was laid for the house of the LORD Almighty, let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built. 10 Before that time there were no wages for man or beast. No one could go about his business safely because of his enemy, for I had turned every man against his neighbor. 11 But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD Almighty.
12 “The seed will grow well, the vine will
yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop
their dew. I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of
this people. 13 As you have been an object of cursing among the
nations, O Judah and
14 This
is what the LORD Almighty says: “Just as I had determined to bring disaster
upon you and showed no pity when your fathers angered me,” says the LORD
Almighty, 15 “so now I have determined to do good again to
18 Again
the word of the LORD Almighty came to me. 19 This is what the
LORD Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months
will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for
20 This
is what the LORD Almighty says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many
cities will yet come, 21 and the inhabitants of one city will go to
another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the LORD and seek the LORD
Almighty. I myself am going.’ 22 And many peoples and powerful
nations will come to
23 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.’ “
Zechariah 11:4-5
4 This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter. 5 Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Praise the LORD, I am rich!’ Their own shepherds do not spare them. 6 For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the LORD. “I will hand everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will oppress the land, and I will not rescue them from their hands.”
Zechariah
11:13
And the LORD said to me, “Throw
it to the potter”-the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into
the house of the LORD to the potter.
Zechariah
11:15
Then the LORD said to me, “Take
again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
36. Jesus
A.
Jesus and John the Baptist
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He[a] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
B.
Jesus and his disciples
|
4 Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord,
it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us[a] make here three tabernacles: one for You,
one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” |
16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17 For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” 18 And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. |
Hebrews
5:5
So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest.
But God said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father. “
Appendix One:
Fate of the False Prophets
A. The Warnings
1 “If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—’and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.
6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your
daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul,
secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have
not known, neither you nor your fathers, 7 of the gods of the people
which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one
end of the earth to the other end of the earth, 8 you shall
not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you
spare him or conceal him; 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand
shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all
the people. 10 And you shall stone him with stones until he dies,
because he sought to entice you away from the LORD your God, who brought you
out of the
12 “If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the LORD your
God gives you to dwell in, saying, 13 ‘Corrupt men have gone out
from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go
and serve other gods”‘—which you have not known— 14
then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is
indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed
among you, 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city
with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its
livestock—with the edge of the sword. 16 And you shall gather all
its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the
city and all its plunder, for the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever; it
shall not be built again. 17 So none of the accursed things shall
remain in your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger
and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore
to your fathers, 18 because you have listened to the voice of the
LORD your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what
is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy
18:9-22
9 “When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving
you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his
daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or
a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one
who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
12 For all who do these
things are an abomination to the LORD, and because of these
abominations the LORD your God drives them out from before you. 13
You shall be blameless before the LORD your God. 14 For these
nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as
for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.
15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from
your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, 16 according to
all you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly,
saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, nor let me see
this great fire anymore, lest I die.’
17 “And the LORD said to me: ‘What they have spoken is good. 18
I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will
put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19
And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in
My name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have
not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that
prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall
we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the
LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing
which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you
shall not be afraid of him.
Judges
6:31
But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Would you plead for Baal? Would
you save him? Let the one who would plead for him be put to death by morning! If he is a
god, let him plead for himself, because his altar has been torn down!”
30 “ An astonishing and horrible thing
Has been committed in the land:
31 The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests rule by their own
power;
And My people love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?
Jeremiah 14:14
14 And the LORD said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.
Jeremiah 23:25-32
25 “I have heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in my name. They say, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’ 26 How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? 27 They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their fathers forgot my name through Baal worship. 28 Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the LORD. 29 “Is not my word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?
30 “Therefore,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me. 31 Yes,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, ‘The LORD declares.’ 32 Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the LORD. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the LORD.
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
1 “Woe to the shepherds who
destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” says the LORD. 2
Therefore thus says the LORD God of
5 “ Behold,
the days are coming,” says the LORD,
“ That I will raise to David a Branch of
righteousness;
A King shall reign and prosper,
And execute judgment and righteousness in
the earth.
6 In His days
And Israel will dwell safely;
Now this is His name by which He
will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. [Hebrew YHWH
Tsidkenu]
7 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,
“that they shall no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the children
of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 8 but, ‘As the LORD lives who
brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north
country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall
dwell in their own land.”
9 My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the LORD,
And because of His holy words.
10 For the land is full of
adulterers;
For because of a curse the land mourns.
The pleasant places of the wilderness are
dried up.
Their course of life is evil,
And their might is not right.
11 “ For
both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, in My house I have found their
wickedness,” says the LORD.
12 “
Therefore their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the
LORD.
13 “ And
I have seen folly in the prophets of
They prophesied by Baal
And caused My people
14 Also I have seen a horrible
thing in the prophets of
They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also strengthen the hands of
evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his
wickedness.
All of them are like
And her inhabitants like
15 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘ Behold, I will
feed them with wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’”
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“ Do not listen to
the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the LORD.
17 They continually say to
those who despise Me,
‘ The LORD has
said, “You shall have peace”’;
And to everyone who walks according
to the dictates of his own heart, they say,
‘ No evil shall come upon you.’”
18 For who has stood in the counsel
of the LORD,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the
LORD has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the
wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD will
not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the
thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it
perfectly.
21 “ I
have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they
prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My
counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned them from their
evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
23 “ Am
I a God near at hand,” says the LORD,
“ And not a God afar off?
24 Can anyone hide himself in
secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the LORD;
“ Do I not fill
heaven and earth?” says the LORD.
25 “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My
name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26 How long will this
be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed
they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, 27 who
try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his
neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28 “ The
prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My
word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?”
says the LORD.
29 “ Is
not My word like a fire?” says the LORD,
“ And like a hammer that breaks the
rock in pieces?
30 “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the
LORD, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I am
against the prophets,” says the LORD, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He
says.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false
dreams,” says the LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their
lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all,” says
the LORD.
33 “So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you,
saying, ‘What is the oracle of the LORD?’ you shall then say to them, ‘What
oracle?’ [Septuagint, Targum, and Vulgate read You are the burden.’] I will even forsake you,” says the LORD. 34
“And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The
oracle of the LORD!’ I will even punish that man and his house. 35
Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and every one to his brother,
‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’ 36
And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For every man’s word will
be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of
hosts, our God. 37 Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the
LORD answered you?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’ 38 But since
you say, ‘The oracle of the LORD!’ therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Because you
say this word, “The oracle of the LORD!” and I have sent to you, saying, “Do
not say, ‘The oracle of the LORD!’” 39 therefore behold, I, even I,
will utterly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your
fathers, and will cast you out of My presence. 40 And I will
bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not
be forgotten.’”
Ezekiel 13:1-23
1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’”
3 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow
their own spirit and have seen nothing! 4 O
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you have spoken
nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says
the Lord GOD. 9 “My hand will be against the prophets who envision
futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people,
nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into
the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace!’
when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with
untempered mortar— 11 say to those who plaster it with
untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and
you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it
down. 12 Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to
you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I will cause a stormy wind to
break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and
great hailstones in fury to consume it. 14 So I will break
down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it
down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and
you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am
the LORD.
15 “Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who
have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, ‘The
wall is no more, nor those who plastered it, 16 that
is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see
visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’” says the Lord GOD.
17 “Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of
your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them, 18
and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Woe
to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves[a] and
make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you
hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive? 19 And will
you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread,
killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not
live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?”
20 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt
souls there like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls
go, the souls you hunt like birds. 21 I will also tear off your
veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as
prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
22 “Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad,
whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so
that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life. 23
Therefore you shall no longer envision futility nor practice divination; for I
will deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am
the LORD.”‘”
Ezekiel 22:28
28 Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD had not spoken.
Zechariah 10:2
2 The
idols speak deceit,
diviners
see visions that lie;
they tell dreams that are false,
they give comfort in vain.
Therefore the
people wander like sheep
oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
Matthew
7:14-16
14 Because[a] narrow is the gate and difficult is
the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
15 “Beware of false prophets,
who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or
figs from thistles?
Matthew 24:3-14
3 Now as He sat on the
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one
deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the
Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and
rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all[a]these things must come to pass, but
the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences,[b] and earthquakes in various places. 8
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and
you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then
many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11
Then many false prophets will rise up
and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the
love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall
be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all
the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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Matthew
24:23-25 |
Mark
13:21-23 |
Luke
6:26
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did
their fathers to the false prophets.
Galatians 1:6-9
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Test all things; hold fast what is good.
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in
destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on
themselves swift destruction. 2And many will follow their
destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.
1
John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of
God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
B. Executions
1. Elijah at
1 Kings 18:20-40
20 So Ahab sent for all the children of
So all the people answered and said, “It is well
spoken.”
25 Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for
yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on
the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”
26 So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it,
and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal,
hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped
about the altar which they had made.
27 And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry
aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is
on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” 28
So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and
lances, until the blood gushed out on them. 29 And when midday was
past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening
sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid
attention.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the
altar of the LORD that was broken down. 31 And Elijah took
twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to
whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, “
36 And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening
sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “LORD God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel
and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at
Your word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know
that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts
back to You again.”
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice,
and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was
in the trench. 39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell
on their faces; and they said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is
God!”
40 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let
one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah
brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed
them there.
2. Josiah
2 Kings 23:19-21
19 Now Josiah also took away all the shrines of
the high places that were in the cities of
21 Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the
Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the
Covenant.”