Bible Dictionary: Prophets: The Jews: Often Tried to Make Them Speak Smooth Things

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1 Kings 22:13
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: let your word, I pray you, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
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Isaiah 30:10
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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Amos 2:12
But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
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Library

Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
... with cruel beatings and scourgings as they often are. ... The Prophets were stoned,
imprisoned, and killed by the Jews ... speak the truth; to tell the Jews, boldly and ...
/.../an appeal to the christian women of the south/appeal to the christian women.htm

Psalm LXXVIII.
... a testimony by the Law and the Prophets, [3553] therefore ... by Cain, [3574] so by the
Jews was slain ... crooked and embittering persons, "How often they exasperated ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxviii.htm

Letter cxlvii. To Sabinianus.
... You may treat the words of prophets with contempt ... the Ammonites and the Moabites,
the Jews also and the children of Israel, although God had often prophesied to ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxlvii to sabinianus.htm

Introduction to Oration ii.
... degree, our tears and groans, and has often stirred my ... a preacher of the Gentiles,
[2698] a patron of the Jews. ... by an enumeration of all the prophets, and of ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/introduction to oration ii.htm

Book ii.
... oracles of God, the Gospel, and the prophets, who believe ... law of the flesh, and the
mind often, when sin ... those festivals which were enjoined on the Jews by the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/book ii.htm

'Other Sheep'
... learned to believe that 'salvation is of the Jews,' though they ... Touch not Mine anointed
and do My prophets no harm ... We are often told that we have done nothing. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/other sheep.htm

The Unjust Steward - Dives and Lazarus - Jewish Agricultural Notes ...
... The very name - not often mentioned in any other real ... what really was, but only
introduces Jews as speaking ... not hearing to] Moses and the Prophets, neither will ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xviii the unjust steward.htm

Footnotes
... HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} Some useful sermons have been often perplexed with a ... 157 [That
is, not to speak of."Ed.]. ... captivate, sell as a slave to make them do that ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/footnotes.htm

The Greatness of the Soul,
... 4. The soul is often called the life of man, not a ... the evil or good of such things
are tried; especially when in ... could that be, if He did not also make some of ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the greatness of the soul.htm

Of Prayer --A Perpetual Exercise of Faith. The Daily Benefits ...
... not the lauded sanctity of patriarchs, prophets, and apostles ... Accordingly, he upbraids
the Jews, that shortly after ... is pardoned by God, who often exercises his ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of prayera perpetual.htm