Jer.23.13

Jeremiah 23:13

KJV GOD

And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

Lying Prophets

Cross References

1 Kings 18:18

KJV

And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

Elijah on Mount Carmel

Isaiah 9:16

KJV

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Judgment against Israel’s Hypocrisy

Jeremiah 2:8

KJV GOD

The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Israel Has Forsaken God

Jeremiah 23:32

KJV GOD

Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.

Lying Prophets

Jeremiah 36:2

KJV GOD

Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

Jeremiah’s Scroll Read in the Temple

Hosea 9:7

KJV

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

Israel’s Punishment

Hosea 9:8

KJV

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.