Deuteronomy 18:22

New King James Version

when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen 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

But Micaiah said, “If you ever return in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Take heed, all you people!”

2 Kings 20:1

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went 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 flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.

Isaiah 41:22

“Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the former things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us things to come.

Jonah 3:4

And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”

Jonah 4:2

So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.

Zechariah 2:13

Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused 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 speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

Deuteronomy 18:21

And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’—

1 Samuel 3:19

So Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.