1If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
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I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. …
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. A very strange supposition, Deut. 13:1 , 2 . 1. It is strange that there should arise any among themselves, especially any pretending to vision and prophecy, who should instigate them to go and serve other gods . Was it possible that any who had so much knowledge of the methods of divine revelation as to be able to personate a prophet should yet have so little knowledge of the divine n…
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