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Lexicon :: Strong's H5030 - nāḇî'

Aa
נָבִיא
Transliteration
nāḇî'
Pronunciation
naw-bee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1277a

Strong’s Definitions

נָבִיא nâbîyʼ, naw-bee'; from H5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:—prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x

The KJV translates Strong's H5030 in the following manner: prophet (312x), prophecy (1x), them that prophesy (1x), prophet (with H376) (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x
The KJV translates Strong's H5030 in the following manner: prophet (312x), prophecy (1x), them that prophesy (1x), prophet (with H376) (1x), variant (1x).

  1. spokesman, speaker, prophet

    1. prophet

    2. false prophet

    3. heathen prophet

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָבִיא nâbîyʼ, naw-bee'; from H5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:—prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
STRONGS H5030: Abbreviations
נָבִיא 306 noun masculine spokesman, speaker, prophet — נ׳ Genesis 20:7 155 times; suffix נְבִיאֶ֑ךָ Exodus 7:1; plural נְבִיאִים Numbers 11:29 + 82 times; נְנִאִים Jeremiah 27:18 + 16 times; suffix נְבִיאַי Psalm 105:15; נְבִיָאו 1 Kings 22:22; נְבִיאָו֯ 2 Kings 17:13, etc.; —
1. genuine prophet of י׳, נביא, anciently called רֹאֶה, 1 Samuel 9:9 (antiquarian note); change probably occurred in times of Elijah and is first reflected in Ehpraimitic source literally as applied to Abraham Genesis 20:7; Moses Deuteronomy 34:10, M. and other early prophets. Hosea 6:5; Hosea 12:11 (twice in verse); Hosea 12:14 (twice in verse); Amos 2:11, 12; of prophets in ecstatic state Numbers 12:6 (E), Numbers 11:24 (JE). So in Judaic literature, of prophet like Moses Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 (D), of Aaron (as mouthpiece of Moses) Exodus 7:1 (P), of Samuel 1 Samuel 3:20, an unknown Judges 6:8; in time of Samuel prophets were organized in bands: חֶבֶל נביאים 1 Samuel 10:5, 10:10; להקת הנ׳ 1 Samuel 19:20; and in time of Elijah were בְּנֵי הַנְּבִיאִים = members of prophets' guilds 1 Kings 20:35; 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 7, 15; 2 Kings 4:1, 38 (twice in verse); נָבִיא of genuine prophets (besides phrases), in Judaic prophets, only Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:5; Ezekiel, Ezekiel 2:5 = Ezekiel 33:33; of ancient prophets Jeremiah 28:8, 9 (3 times in verse); Zechariah 1:6; Zechariah 8:9; especially הנביאים הראשׁנים Zechariah 1:4; Zechariah 7:7, 12, compare הנביאים עבדי(וׅ my (his) servants the prophets 2 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 17:13, 23; 2 Kings 21:10; 2 Kings 24:2 (all RD) Ezra 9:11; Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 44:4; Amos 3:7; Zechariah 1:6, compare Ezekiel 38:17; Daniel 9:6; עבדוֺ הַנּ׳ his servant the prophet 1 Kings 14:18; 2 Kings 14:25; הַנָּבִיא with proper name: Jerome, 2 Chronicles 36:12; Daniel 9:2 + 31 times Jeremiah (but Greek Version of the LXX only + 4 times, the rest probably redactional, see GieJer. xxvii); Elijah 1 Kings 18:36 (om Greek Version of the LXX), 2 Chronicles 21:12; Malachi 3:23; Nathan 2 Samuel 7:2 + 10 times Samuel and Kings; + 4 times Chronicles; Psalm 51:2 (title); Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 20:1, 14 = Isaiah 37:2; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1; 2 Kings 20:11; 2 Chronicles 26:22; 32:20, 32; Habakkuk Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 3:1 (titles); Haggai, Haggai 1:1, 3, 12; Haggai 2:1, 10; Zechariah, Zechariah 1:1, 7 (titles); elsewhere several others in Samuel, Kings and Chronicles + 15 times; נביא is used elsewhere of Genuine prophecy only 1 Samuel 9:9 + 34 times Samuel and Kings; 1 Chronicles 16:22 = Psalm 105:15, + 13 times Chronicles; Psalm 74:9 complains of absence of נ׳; לַחְתֹּם חָזוֺן וְנָבִיא Daniel 9:24 see חתם
2. false prophets: prophets as official class, beside priests, character as false prophets: Isaiah 28:7; Jeremiah 2:26; Jeremiah 4:9; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:1, 10; Jeremiah 13:13; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 23:11, 33, 34; Jeremiah 26:7, 8, 11, 16; Jeremiah 32:32; Zechariah 7:3, app. also 2 Kings 23:2; Nehemiah 9:32; Lamentations 2:20; Jeremiah 29:1; Ezekiel 7:26 (in these not characterized); always false (except of ancient and special prophets given above) in Amos 7:14; Hosea 4:5; Hosea 9:7, 8; Micah 3:5, 6, 11; Isaiah 3:2; Isaiah 9:14; Isaiah 29:10; Jeremiah 2:8, 30; Jeremiah 5:13, 31; Jeremiah 14:13, 14, 15 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 23:9 + 16 times Jeremiah 27:9, 14, 15, 16, 18; Jeremiah 29:8, 15; Jeremiah 37:19; Ezekiel 13:2 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 13:3, 4, 9, 16; Ezekiel 14:4, 7, 9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 14:10; Ezekiel 22:25, 28; Zephaniah 3:4; Lamentations 2:9, 14; Lamentations 4:13; especially discredited Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 18:20 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 18:22 (twice in verse); Zechariah 13:2, 4, 5; such a prophet Hananiah called הַנָּבִיא Jeremiah 28:1, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17 (Greek Version of the LXX omits in all but Jeremiah 28:1, where ψευδοπροφήτης). Usage of prophets themselves gives such a bad flavour to נביא, that we are not surprised that it is absent from exilic Isaiah, the Wisdom Literature, and Psalms (except for special reasons in 3 Psalms given under 1).
3. heathen prophets 1 Kings 18:20; 1 Kings 19:1; 2 Kings 3:13 (twice in verse); נביאי האשׁדה 1 Kings 18:19; נביאי הבעל 1 Kings 18:19, 22, 25, 40; 2 Kings 10:19; 1 Kings 22:6, 10, 12, 13, 22, 23 2 Chronicles 18:5; 18:9; 18:11; 18:12; 18:21; 18:22.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:7; 20:7

Exodus

7:1; 7:1

Numbers

11:24; 11:29; 12:6

Deuteronomy

13:2; 13:4; 13:6; 18:15; 18:18; 18:20; 18:22; 34:10

Judges

6:8

1 Samuel

3:20; 9:9; 9:9; 10:5; 10:10; 19:20

2 Samuel

7:2

1 Kings

14:18; 18:19; 18:19; 18:20; 18:22; 18:25; 18:36; 18:40; 19:1; 20:35; 22:6; 22:10; 22:12; 22:13; 22:22; 22:22; 22:23

2 Kings

2:3; 2:5; 2:7; 2:15; 3:13; 4:1; 4:38; 9:7; 10:19; 14:25; 17:13; 17:13; 17:23; 19:2; 20:1; 20:11; 20:14; 21:10; 23:2; 24:2

1 Chronicles

16:22

2 Chronicles

18:5; 18:9; 18:11; 18:12; 18:21; 18:22; 21:12; 26:22; 32:20; 32:32; 36:12

Ezra

9:11

Nehemiah

9:32

Psalms

51:2; 74:9; 105:15; 105:15

Isaiah

3:2; 9:14; 28:7; 29:10; 37:2; 38:1; 39:1

Jeremiah

1:5; 2:8; 2:26; 2:30; 4:9; 5:13; 5:31; 6:13; 7:25; 8:1; 8:10; 13:13; 14:13; 14:14; 14:15; 14:18; 18:18; 23:9; 23:11; 23:33; 23:34; 25:4; 26:5; 26:7; 26:8; 26:11; 26:16; 27:9; 27:14; 27:15; 27:16; 27:18; 27:18; 28:1; 28:1; 28:5; 28:8; 28:9; 28:10; 28:12; 28:15; 28:17; 29:1; 29:8; 29:15; 29:19; 32:32; 35:15; 37:19; 44:4

Lamentations

2:9; 2:14; 2:20; 4:13

Ezekiel

2:5; 7:26; 13:2; 13:3; 13:4; 13:9; 13:16; 14:4; 14:7; 14:9; 14:10; 22:25; 22:28; 33:33; 38:17

Daniel

9:2; 9:6; 9:24

Hosea

4:5; 6:5; 9:7; 9:8; 12:11; 12:14

Amos

2:11; 2:12; 3:7; 7:14

Micah

3:5; 3:6; 3:11

Habakkuk

1:1; 3:1

Zephaniah

3:4

Haggai

1:1; 1:3; 1:12; 2:1; 2:10

Zechariah

1:1; 1:4; 1:6; 1:6; 1:7; 7:3; 7:7; 7:12; 8:9; 13:2; 13:4; 13:5

H5030

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Strong's Number H5030 matches the Hebrew נָבִיא (nāḇî'),
which occurs 317 times in 288 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 6 (Jer 28:17–Eze 38:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:17 - In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:1 - This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - Yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:15 - You may say, “The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:19 - For they have not listened to my words,” declares the LORD, “words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:29 - Zephaniah the priest, however, read the letter to Jeremiah the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:2 - The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:32 - The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done—they, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:6 - Then Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:15 - Again and again I sent all my servants the prophets to you. They said, “Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and reform your actions; do not follow other gods to serve them. Then you will live in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you have not paid attention or listened to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:8 - Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet told him to do; at the LORD’s temple he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:26 - Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2 - Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:3 - King Zedekiah, however, sent Jehukal son of Shelemiah with the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah the prophet with this message: “Please pray to the LORD our God for us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:6 - Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:19 - Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, ‘The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - Then the king commanded Ebed-Melek the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:14 - Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:2 - Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray to the LORD your God for this entire remnant. For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few are left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:4 - “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray to the LORD your God as you have requested; I will tell you everything the LORD says and will keep nothing back from you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - They also led away all those whom Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan—the men, the women, the children and the king’s daughters. And they took Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah along with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:4 - Again and again I sent my servants the prophets, who said, ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:1 - When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:1 - This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:13 - This is the message the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack Egypt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:1 - This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:34 - This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:1 - This is the word the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians[fn]:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:59

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:59 - This is the message Jeremiah the prophet gave to the staff officer Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with Zedekiah king of Judah in the fourth year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:9 - Her gates have sunk into the ground; their bars he has broken and destroyed. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and her prophets no longer find visions from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:14 - The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The prophecies they gave you were false and misleading.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:20 - “Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:13 - But it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed within her the blood of the righteous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:5 - And whether they listen or fail to listen—for they are a rebellious people—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:26 - Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will go searching for a vision from the prophet, priestly instruction in the law will cease, the counsel of the elders will come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2 - “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:3 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish[fn] prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - Your prophets, Israel, are like jackals among ruins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will not belong to the council of my people or be listed in the records of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16 - those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Sovereign LORD.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the LORD will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “ ‘When any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire of me, I the LORD will answer them myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:9 - “ ‘And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the LORD have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:10 - They will bear their guilt—the prophet will be as guilty as the one who consults him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her princes[fn] within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:28 - Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says’—when the LORD has not spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:33 - “When all this comes true—and it surely will—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:17 - “ ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.

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