And he said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and a messenger spoke to me by the word of יהוה, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, and let him eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he lied to him.
Deuteronomy 13:1 - The Scriptures 2009 “When there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he shall give you a sign or a wonder, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition IF A prophet arises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder, American Standard Version (1901) If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give thee a sign or a wonder, Common English Bible Now if a prophet or a dream interpreter appears among you and performs a sign or wonder for you, Catholic Public Domain Version "If there will have arisen in your midst a prophet, or someone who claims that he had seen a dream, and if he will have predicted sign and portent, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If there rise in the midst of thee a prophet or one that saith he hath dreamed a dream, and he foretell a sign and a wonder: |
And he said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and a messenger spoke to me by the word of יהוה, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, and let him eat bread and drink water.’ ” But he lied to him.
So he turned back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.
Do not add to His Words, Lest He reprove you, and you be found a liar.
Elder and highly respected, he is the head; the prophet who teaches falsehood, he is the tail.
“For both prophet and priest have become defiled. Even in My house I have found their evil,” declares יהוה.
“See, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares יהוה, “and relate them, and lead My people astray by their falsehoods and by their reckless boasting. But I Myself did not send them nor have I commanded them. And they do not profit this people at all,” declares יהוה.
So do not listen to your prophets, or to your diviners, or to your dreamers, or to your observers of clouds, or your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “Do not serve the sovereign of Baḇel.”
“יהוה has made you priest instead of Yehoyaḏa the priest, so that there are overseers in the House of יהוה over everyone who is mad and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in the iron collar.
“For thus said יהוה of hosts, Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘Let not your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, neither listen to the dreams which you are dreaming.
“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, they are all greedy for gain. And from the prophet even to the priest, all act falsely.
“Therefore you shall no longer see false visions, nor practise divination. And I shall deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am יהוה.” ’ ”
For the household idols spoke emptiness, the diviners saw falsehood, and relate dreams of deceit, they comfort in vain. Therefore they have wandered about like sheep. They are afflicted, for there is no shepherd.
“And it shall be in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed, everyone of his vision when he prophesies, and not put a hairy robe on in order to deceive,
“For false messiahs and false prophets shall arise, and they shall show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
“But beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves.
“For false messiahs and false prophets shall rise and show signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
“Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for thus their fathers did to the false prophets.
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 mighty ones, even that prophet shall die.’
“And now, O Yisra’ĕl, listen to the laws and the right-rulings which I am teaching you to do, so that you live, and shall go in and possess the land which יהוה Elohim of your fathers is giving you.
“Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you.
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
But there also came to be false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall secretly bring in destructive heresies, and deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
Beloved ones, do not believe every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of Elohim, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.