Micah 2:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not prophesy, they say to those who prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they may not take shame.

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  • Amos 2:12 : 12 But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.
  • Isa 30:10 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
  • Jer 6:14-15 : 14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 8:11-12 : 11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore, they shall fall among those that fall: when I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
  • Jer 26:8-9 : 8 Now it happened, when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, You shall surely die. 9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
  • Jer 26:20-23 : 20 And there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah. 21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled and went into Egypt; 22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt. 23 And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the tombs of the common people.
  • Ezek 3:26 : 26 And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 20:46 : 46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and speak toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
  • Ezek 21:2 : 2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
  • Amos 7:13 : 13 But do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.
  • Amos 8:11-13 : 11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 13 In that day the beautiful virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
  • Acts 4:17 : 17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 Saying, Did we not strictly command you that you should not teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
  • Acts 5:40 : 40 And they agreed with him: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
  • Ps 74:9 : 9 We do not see our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long.

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  • Isa 30:10
    78%

    10Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

  • Zech 13:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3And it shall come to pass that when anyone continues to prophesy, then his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.

    4And it shall come to pass in that day that the prophets shall be ashamed, every one of his vision, when he has prophesied; nor shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

  • Ezek 13:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6They have seen falsehood and lying divination, saying, 'The LORD says'; but the LORD has not sent them. And they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

    7Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination, when you say, 'The LORD says it,' although I have not spoken?

  • Jer 23:16-17
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    77%

    16Thus says the LORD of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

    17They still say to those who despise me, 'The LORD has said, You shall have peace.' And they say to everyone who walks after the imagination of his own heart, 'No evil shall come upon you.'

  • Amos 7:16
    77%

    16Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.

  • Ezek 13:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts, 'Hear the word of the LORD.'

    3Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

  • Mic 2:5
    76%

    5Therefore you shall have none who shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

  • Jer 5:12-13
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    76%

    12They have denied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

    13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

  • Jer 2:26
    75%

    26As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

  • Mic 2:7
    75%

    7O you who are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD restricted? Are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?

  • Mic 3:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

    6Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

    7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.

  • Ezek 13:16
    75%

    16This is concerning the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and see visions of peace for her, when there is no peace, says the Lord GOD.

  • Jer 14:14-16
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    75%

    14Then the LORD said to me, 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I have not sent them, nor commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision and divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.'

    15Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I have not sent them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land'—by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

    16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  • Jer 6:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

    15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.

  • Jer 27:14-16
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    74%

    14Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets that speak to you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

    15For I have not sent them, says the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.

    16Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD; Do not listen to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

  • Mic 6:16
    74%

    16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.

  • Jer 27:10
    73%

    10For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and you should perish.

  • Deut 18:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?

    22When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not follow or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.

  • Ezek 36:16
    73%

    16Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 6:10
    73%

    10To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • Jer 29:9
    73%

    9For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 13:9
    73%

    9My hand shall be against the prophets who see vanity and divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of my people, nor shall they be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 12:24
    73%

    24For there shall be no more any empty vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

  • Ezek 11:4
    72%

    4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

  • Isa 66:5
    72%

    5Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

  • Amos 2:12
    72%

    12But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.

  • Amos 7:13
    72%

    13But do not prophesy again anymore at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.

  • Ezek 22:28
    72%

    28And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.

  • Jer 8:12
    72%

    12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore, they shall fall among those that fall: when I punish them, they shall be cast down, says the LORD.

  • Jer 23:32
    72%

    32Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.

  • Jer 23:37
    72%

    37Thus you shall say to the prophet, 'What has the LORD answered you?' and, 'What has the LORD spoken?'

  • Mic 3:11
    72%

    11The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • Jer 11:21
    72%

    21Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand:

  • Ezek 2:5
    72%

    5And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, (for they are a rebellious house,) will yet know that there has been a prophet among them.

  • Mic 2:11
    71%

    11If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood lies, saying, I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

  • Lam 2:14
    71%

    14Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not revealed your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false burdens and causes of banishment.

  • Jer 5:20
    71%

    20Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,