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4396. prophetes -- a prophet (an interpreter or forth-teller of ...
... especially through the spoken-word") -- properly, one who by the inspiration of
God ... forth-teller of the divine will) NASB Word Usage prophet (63), prophets (81 ...
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Genesis 40:8
And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
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Genesis 41:16,38,39
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
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Exodus 3:14,15
And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.
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Exodus 4:12,15,27
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall say.
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Exodus 6:13,29
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 7:2
You shall speak all that I command you: and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.
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Exodus 19:3,9,19
And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
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Exodus 24:16
And the glory of the LORD stayed on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.
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Exodus 25:9,22
According to all that I show you, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall you make it.
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Exodus 26:30
And you shall raise up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed you in the mount.
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Exodus 33:9,11
And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
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Exodus 35:31,35
And he has filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
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Numbers 1:1
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
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Numbers 7:89
And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking to him from off the mercy seat that was on the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.
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Numbers 9:8-10
And Moses said to them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.
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Numbers 11:17,25
And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you bear it not yourself alone.
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Numbers 12:6-8
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream.
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Numbers 16:28,29
And Moses said, Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of my own mind.
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Numbers 22:18,38
And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
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Numbers 23:5,12,20,26
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
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Numbers 24:2-4,15,16
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came on him.
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Leviticus 1:1
And the LORD called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
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Deuteronomy 1:5,6
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
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Deuteronomy 5:4-6,31
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the middle of the fire,
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Deuteronomy 34:9-11
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Joshua 3:7
And the LORD said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
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Judges 6:7-10,34
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried to the LORD because of the Midianites,
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Judges 11:29
Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
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Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Judges 14:6,19
And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
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1 Samuel 3:1,4-10,20,21
And the child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
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1 Samuel 9:6,15-20
And he said to him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honorable man; all that he said comes surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can show us our way that we should go.
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1 Samuel 10:6,7,10
And the Spirit of the LORD will come on you, and you shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.
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1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers: and the Spirit of the LORD came on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
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1 Samuel 19:20,23,24
And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
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2 Samuel 7:3-7
And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; for the LORD is with you.
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2 Samuel 12:1
And the LORD sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
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2 Samuel 23:2,3
The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
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1 Kings 13:20
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came to the prophet that brought him back:
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1 Kings 14:5
And the LORD said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you say to her: for it shall be, when she comes in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
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1 Kings 17:1,24
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
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1 Kings 18:36,46
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
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1 Kings 19:9
And he came thither to a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, What do you here, Elijah?
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1 Kings 22:14,28
And Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, what the LORD said to me, that will I speak.
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2 Kings 1:12
And Elijah answered and said to them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
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2 Kings 2:9,15
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for you, before I be taken away from you. And Elisha said, I pray you, let a double portion of your spirit be on me.
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2 Kings 3:11,12,15
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
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2 Kings 4:27
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me.
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2 Kings 5:8
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Why have you rent your clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
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2 Kings 6:8-12,17,32
Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
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2 Kings 10:10
Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.
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1 Chronicles 12:18
Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Your are we, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
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1 Chronicles 21:18
Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar to the LORD in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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1 Chronicles 28:11,12,19
Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlors thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,
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2 Chronicles 8:14
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
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2 Chronicles 15:1
And the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:
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2 Chronicles 18:27
And Micaiah said, If you certainly return in peace, then has not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Listen, all you people.
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2 Chronicles 20:14
Then on Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the middle of the congregation;
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2 Chronicles 24:20
And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said to them, Thus said God, Why transgress you the commandments of the LORD, that you cannot prosper? because you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.
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2 Chronicles 26:5
And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
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2 Chronicles 33:18
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 36:12,15
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
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Ezra 5:1,2
Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even to them.
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Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years did you forbear them, and testified against them by your spirit in your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the people of the lands.
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Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
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Job 33:14-16
For God speaks once, yes twice, yet man perceives it not.
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Psalm 103:7
He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel.
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Isaiah 6:1-9
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
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Isaiah 8:11
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
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Isaiah 44:26
That confirms the word of his servant, and performes the counsel of his messengers; that said to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, You shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
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Isaiah 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
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Jeremiah 1:1,2,4-10
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
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Jeremiah 2:1
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Jeremiah 7:1,25
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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Jeremiah 11:1,18
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
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Jeremiah 13:1-3
Thus said the LORD to me, Go and get you a linen girdle, and put it on your loins, and put it not in water.
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Jeremiah 16:1
The word of the LORD came also to me, saying,
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Jeremiah 18:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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Jeremiah 23:9
My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
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Jeremiah 24:4
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Jeremiah 25:3
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even to this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; but you have not listened.
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Jeremiah 26:1,2,12
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
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Jeremiah 27:1,2
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
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Jeremiah 29:30
Then came the word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying,
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Jeremiah 33:1
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
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Jeremiah 34:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,
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Jeremiah 42:4,7
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
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Ezekiel 1:1,3,20
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
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Ezekiel 2:1,2,4,5
And he said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.
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Ezekiel 3:10-12,14,16,17,22,24,27
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.
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Ezekiel 8:1
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there on me.
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Ezekiel 11:1,4,5,24
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the LORD's house, which looks eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
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Ezekiel 33:22
Now the hand of the LORD was on me in the evening, before he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
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Ezekiel 37:1
The hand of the LORD was on me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the middle of the valley which was full of bones,
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Ezekiel 40:1
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was on me, and brought me thither.
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Ezekiel 43:5
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
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Daniel 1:17
As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
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Daniel 2:19
Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
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Daniel 7:16
I came near to one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
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Daniel 8:16
And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
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Daniel 9:1-22
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Library

Refutation of Basilides, and of the Opinion that the Prophets ...
... Book II Chapter XXXV."Refutation of Basilides, and of the opinion that the prophets
uttered their predictions under the inspiration of different gods. ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxxv refutation of basilides and.htm

A Refutation of those who Allege that the Prophets Uttered Some ...
... IV Chapter XXXV."A refutation of those who allege that the prophets uttered some
predictions under the inspiration of the highest, others from the Demiurge. ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxxv a refutation of those.htm

Inspiration.
... by it that "prophets and apostles were personally animated by the Holy Spirit."
This confounds illumination with revelation, and revelation with inspiration. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xvi inspiration.htm

Apostolic Inspiration.
... And this is the reason that the prophets give us more or less the impression of
an inspiration independent of their personal, spiritual life, while the ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxxi apostolic inspiration.htm

Accordingly, we Can Show from an Examination of the Sacred ...
... See Dr. Lee on "the immemorial doctrine of the Church of God" as to the Divine
influence upon the intellectual faculties of the prophets: Inspiration of Holy ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter iv accordingly we can.htm

Verbal Inspiration
... what to say." Could any language express more emphatically the most entire inspiration? ...
God before had showed by the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ ...
/.../the divine inspiration of the bible/chapter thirteen verbal inspiration .htm

The Prophets Inspired by the Holy Ghost.
... the Spirit. [Kaye's Justin M., p. 180, comparing this view of the inspiration
of prophets, with those of Justin and Athenagoras.]. ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter ix the prophets inspired by.htm

1 John iv. 1-3
... as the divine world-transforming power, there was a greater predominance of that
immediate divine impulse and inspiration; the appearing of prophets, and the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/neander/the first epistle of john/1 john iv 3-jan.htm

Third Mark of Inspiration, which is Holy Obedience to the Church ...
... For thus Moses and the prophets are reconciled ... other Fathers of Religious Orders,
were called to the service of souls by an extraordinary inspiration, but they ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xiii third mark of.htm

The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prophets and Apostles.
... the difference between the work of the Holy Spirit in apostles and prophets and
His work ... He gives this as a proof that the inspiration of the prophet does not ...
/.../torrey/the person and work of the holy spirit/chapter xxi the work of.htm

Subtopics

False Prophets: Called Foolish Prophets

False Prophets: Compared to Foxes in the Desert

False Prophets: Compared to Wind

False Prophets: Covetous

False Prophets: Crafty

False Prophets: Drunken

False Prophets: Immoral and Profane

False Prophets: Influenced by Evil Spirits

False Prophets: Involved the People in Their own Ruin

False Prophets: Judgments Denounced Against

False Prophets: Light and Treacherous