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Jeremiah 23:13 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 23 · verse 13
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.Jeremiah 23:13 · King James Version
Jeremiah 23:13 in context
11For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prophesiednâbâʼto prophesyH5012 →
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- SamariaShômᵉrôwnShomeron, a place in PalestineH8111 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- follytiphlâhfrivolityH8604 →
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Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-32