Bible Encyclopedia: Prophets: Called Seers

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Whether Prophecy Pertains to Knowledge?
... first and chiefly consists in knowledge, because, to wit, prophets know things ... vii,
8), "in the Old Testament, they were called Seers, because they saw what ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether prophecy pertains to knowledge.htm

The Book of God
... we live has broadened immeasurably since the days of the Hebrew prophets and seers. ...
When the prophets called upon the people to walk with God, they implied a ...
/.../mcconnell/understanding the scriptures/chapter iv the book of.htm

Letter Liii. To Paulinus.
... For this reason too the prophets were called seers, [1432] because they saw
Him whom others did not see. Abraham saw His day and was glad. ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter liii to paulinus.htm

Hymns on the Nativity. Hymn i. This is the Day that Gladdened Them ...
... was born the Child, and His name was called Wonder ... Shamed is that people which holds
the prophets as true ... of the Truth and fulfilled the true seers' words, which ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymns on the nativity hymn.htm

Psalm LXXXIX.
... Thou didst reveal this to Thy Prophets. For this reason Thou spakest in vision,
that is, in revelation: whence Prophets were called seers. ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxxix.htm

A Look into the Hebrew Bible.
... Sometimes, possibly, they called it The Psalms, because the book of the ... to historical
writings of various sorts, composed by prophets and seers, and thus ...
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A Statement in vindication of the Doctrine of the Apostles as ...
... demons, the very God of Israel is now called the God ... faith, or to controvert the
truth of those prophets of ours ... to take the books of their own seers, and read ...
/.../the harmony of the gospels/chapter xxxii a statement in vindication.htm

The Place of the Old Testament in Divine Revelation
... ancient Israel so that they became seers and prophets ... as the greatest of the later
prophets declares (Isaiah ... favors, but rather that they were called to service ...
/.../the origin and permanent value of the old testament/iv the place of the.htm

A vision of the Latter-Day Glories
... THE PROPHETS OF GOD wore anciently called seers, for they had a supernatural sight
which could pierce through the gloom of the future and behold the things ...
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The Doctrine of the Truth Continued.
... as He willed, He also formed (objects), He called them by ... of God; and these have
been styled prophets, [1091] on ... not at the time merely when seers furnished a ...
/.../hippolytus/the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxix the doctrine of the.htm

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1 Samuel 9:19
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me to the high place; for you shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.
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2 Samuel 15:27
The king said also to Zadok the priest, Are not you a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
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2 Samuel 24:11
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
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2 Kings 17:13
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
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1 Chronicles 9:22
All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
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1 Chronicles 29:29
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
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2 Chronicles 9:29
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
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2 Chronicles 12:15
Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
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2 Chronicles 29:30
Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise to the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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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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Micah 3:7
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
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