Deuteronomy 18:22

Tree of Life Version

When a prophet speaks in Adonai’s Name and the word does not happen or come true, that is a word that Adonai has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously—do not be afraid of him.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:28

Micaiah then said, “If you ever return safely, then Adonai has not spoken through me.” And he added, “Did you hear, all you people?”

2 Kings 20:1

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So Isaiah the prophet son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says Adonai: Put your house in order. For you are dying, and will not live.”

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering sparrow or a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse does not land.

Isaiah 41:22

Let them bring forth and tell us what will happen. The former things, what were they? Tell us, that we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us things to come.

Jonah 3:4

So Jonah began to come into the city for one day’s journey, and he cried out saying: “Another forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Jonah 4:2

So he prayed to Adonai and said, “Please, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my own country? That’s what I anticipated, fleeing to Tarshish—for I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and full of kindness, and relenting over calamity.

Zechariah 2:13

‘For behold, I will shake My hand against them and they will be plunder to their servants.’ Then you will know that Adonai-Tzva’ot has sent me.

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 will die.’

Deuteronomy 18:21

“Now should you say in your heart, ‘How would we recognize the word that Adonai has not spoken?’

1 Samuel 3:19

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