Jeremiah 23:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

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  • Jer 23:28 : 28 The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
  • Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 29:8 : 8 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
  • Joel 2:28 : 28 "It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
  • Num 12:6 : 6 He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
  • Jer 8:6 : 6 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
  • Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
  • Jer 14:14 : 14 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
  • Jer 16:17 : 17 For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
  • Ps 139:2 : 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
  • Ps 139:4 : 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
  • Gen 37:5 : 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.
  • Gen 37:9 : 9 He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
  • Matt 1:20 : 20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, don't be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
  • Luke 12:3 : 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers will be proclaimed on the housetops.
  • Jer 29:23 : 23 because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.

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  • Jer 23:26-28
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    26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

    27who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

    28The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.

  • Jer 23:30-32
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    30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

    31Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says.

    32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 14:13-15
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    13Then said I, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

    14Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn't send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

    15Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn't send them, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

  • Jer 29:8-9
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    8For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Don't let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen you to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

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

  • Jer 27:14-16
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    14Don't listen to the words of the prophets who 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 Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.

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

  • Ezek 13:6-9
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    6They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

    7Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?

    8Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have spoken falsehood, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.

    9My hand shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.

  • Jer 23:16-17
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    16Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

    17They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.

  • Num 12:6
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    6He said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.

  • Ezek 13:1-3
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    1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say you to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear you the word of Yahweh:

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

  • Jer 23:13
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    13I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

  • Zech 10:2
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    2For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; And they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

  • Jer 23:21
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    21I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn't speak to them, yet they prophesied.

  • Hos 12:10
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    10I have also spoken to the prophets, And I have multiplied visions; And by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

  • Jer 23:24
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    24Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

  • Jer 27:10
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:28
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    28Her prophets have daubed for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.

  • Jer 28:15
    71%

    15Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Yahweh has not sent you; but you make this people to trust in a lie.

  • Deut 13:3
    71%

    3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Jer 29:21
    70%

    21Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;

  • Isa 30:10
    70%

    10who tell the seers, "Don't see;" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

  • Deut 18:20-22
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    20But the prophet, who shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.

    21If you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?

    22when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing doesn't follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.

  • Mic 3:5
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    5Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

  • Jer 5:31
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    31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?

  • Ezek 13:16
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    16[to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;

  • Gen 37:6
    69%

    6He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

  • Jer 23:37
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    37Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

  • Jer 29:23
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    23because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn't command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 5:13
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    13and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done to them.

  • Deut 13:1
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    1If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,

  • Mic 2:11
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    11If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: 'I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;' He would be the prophet of this people.

  • Jer 26:5
    69%

    5to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • Jer 23:11
    68%

    11for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.