Prophets, False

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Deuteronomy 13:1Torrey Mode of trying and detecting

  If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

• Deuteronomy 13:2Torrey Mode of trying and detecting

  And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;

• Deuteronomy 13:3Torrey Made use of by God to prove Israel

  Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 18:21Torrey Mode of trying and detecting

  And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

• Deuteronomy 18:22Torrey Mode of trying and detecting

  When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

• 1 Kings 22:21Torrey Influenced by evil spirits

  And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.

• 1 Kings 22:22Torrey Influenced by evil spirits

  And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

• Nehemiah 6:14Torrey Women sometimes acted as

  My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

• Isaiah 9:15Torrey Involved the people in their own ruin

  The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

• Isaiah 9:16Torrey Involved the people in their own ruin

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

• Isaiah 28:7Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Drunken

  ¶ But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble…

• Jeremiah 2:8Torrey PROPHESIED — In the name of false gods

  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.