20But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
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For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, …
They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)Here is, I. The promise of the great prophet, with a command to receive him, and hearken to him. Now, 1. Some think it is the promise of a succession of prophets, that should for many ages be kept up in Israel. Besides the priests and Levites, their ordinary ministers, whose office it was to teach Jacob God’s law, they should have prophets, extraordinary ministers, to reprove them for their faults…
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