Deuteronomy 18:22

Modern English Version

When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not occur 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.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:28

Micaiah said, “If you return safely, the Lord has not spoken through me.” And he said, “Listen, all you people!”

2 Kings 20:1

In those days Hezekiah became ill and was near death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.”

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse without cause shall not alight.

Isaiah 41:22

Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them and know their outcome, or declare to us things to come.

Jonah 3:4

Jonah began to enter the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “In forty days’ time, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O  Lord! Is this not what I said while I was still in my own land? This is the reason that I fled before to Tarshish, because I knew that You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in faithfulness, and ready to relent from punishment.

Zechariah 2:13

Be still, all flesh before the Lord, for He is stirred from His holy habitation.

Deuteronomy 18:20

But the prophet, who presumes to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods—that prophet shall die.”

Deuteronomy 18:21

And you may say in your heart, “How can we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?”

1 Samuel 3:19

And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and did not let any of his words fall to the ground.