8For 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.
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Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, …
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)To make the people quiet and easy in their captivity, I. God takes them off from building upon the false foundation which their pretended prophets laid, Jer. 29:8 , 9 . They told them that their captivity should be short, and therefore that they must not think of taking root in Babylon, but be upon the wing to go back: “Now herein they deceive you ,” says God; “they prophesy a lie to you , though…
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