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• Ezekiel 13

  Ezekiel 13 rebukes the prophets of Israel who prophesy on their own initiative though the LORD has not sent them, together with the women who practice divination. It likens false prophecy that proclaims peace when there is no peace to a wall daubed with untempered mortar.

• Micah 2

  Micah 2 pronounces judgment on those who seize the fields and houses of others, indicts the people who try to silence prophecy as well as the false prophets, and promises that the remnant of Israel will be gathered again.

• Ezekiel 14

  Ezekiel 14 rebukes the elders of Israel who come to inquire of the prophet while harboring idols in their hearts. It pronounces judgment on Jerusalem, declaring that even if righteous men such as Noah, Daniel, and Job were present, their righteousness could deliver only their own lives.

• Jeroboam II

  Jeroboam II was the fourth king of the Jehu dynasty in the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Joash. He recovered much lost territory and presided over a period of prosperity, but the contemporary prophets Amos and Hosea condemned the injustice and false worship that lay beneath that prosperity.

• Deuteronomy 14

  Deuteronomy 14 sets out the regulations Israel was to observe as a holy people unto the LORD: mourning customs, the distinction between clean and unclean animals for food, the annual tithe, and the tithe brought every third year.

• Deuteronomy 18

  Deuteronomy 18 sets out the portion due to the Levitical priests, forbids the divination and necromancy (calling up the spirits of the dead) practiced by the nations of Canaan, and records God's promise to raise up a prophet like Moses, together with the criteria for distinguishing true prophets from false ones.

• Deuteronomy 19

  Deuteronomy 19, part of the law delivered by Moses, contains the regulations on cities of refuge for those who kill a person unintentionally, the command not to remove a neighbor's landmark, the principle of two or three witnesses, and the punishment of false witnesses.

• Zedekiah son of Chenaanah

  Zedekiah son of Chenaanah was a prophet in the time of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. He prophesied victory in the war against Aram and struck the prophet Micaiah on the cheek. He appears in 1 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 18.

• Jeremiah 23:29

  Jeremiah 23:29 is a verse that likens the word of God to "a fire" and to "a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." Because it appears in a passage rebuking false prophets, it is frequently cited in discussions of the power of God's word and of discerning true from false prophecy.

• False Prophet

  A false prophet, in biblical usage, is a prophet who claims to speak the word of God although God has not sent him, or who leads people away from God.

• Jeremiah 29

  Jeremiah 29 contains the letter Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the exiles in Babylon. It urges them to build houses in exile and to pray for the peace of the city, promises their return after seventy years, and rebukes the false prophets.

• Jeremiah 14

  Jeremiah 14 is set against the backdrop of a drought that has struck Judah. It records the people's confession of sin and their lament, the LORD's reply that He will not accept their prayer, and His judgment on the false prophets who proclaim "peace."

• Jeremiah 23

  Jeremiah 23 rebukes the shepherds of Judah who scattered the people, promises a "righteous Branch" to be raised up from David, and then delivers an extended indictment of the false prophets whom God did not send.

• Jeremiah 24

  Jeremiah 24 records the vision Jeremiah saw before the temple after Jeconiah was carried away to Babylon: two baskets of figs, one good and one bad. The chapter contrasts the future of those taken into exile with that of those who remained in the land.

• Peace

  Peace is a biblical term translating the Hebrew shalom and the Greek eirene. Beyond the absence of conflict, it denotes wholeness, well-being, and a right relationship between God and humanity.

• False Christ

  "False Christ" is a biblical term for someone who claims to be the Christ (the Messiah), or is venerated as such, and leads people astray. Jesus used it in a warning during his teaching on the end times.

• Matthew 7:21

  Jesus' warning, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." The verse figures prominently in discussions of faith and works and of the assurance of salvation.

• Matthew 7

  Matthew 7 is the final chapter of the Sermon on the Mount. It contains the teaching against judging others, the exhortation to ask, seek, and knock in prayer, the Golden Rule, the narrow gate, the warning about false prophets and their fruits, and the parable of the house built on the rock.

• 2 Peter 2

  2 Peter 2 warns against false teachers who will arise within the church. Citing God's judgment of the angels who sinned, the Flood in Noah's day, and Sodom and Gomorrah, it declares their destruction and likens their greed and licentiousness to the way of Balaam.

• Zechariah 13

  Zechariah 13 is a prophecy that in that day a fountain will be opened to cleanse sin, idols and false prophets will disappear, and, after the shepherd is struck and the sheep are scattered, the surviving third will be refined and become God's people.