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Jer 14:14 — Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

The prophets		Jer 23:25,26; Jer 27:10,14; Jer 28:13; Jer 29:21; Jer 37:19; Isa 9:15; Zec 13:3; 1Ti 4:2
I sent		Jer 23:14-16,21-32; Jer 27:15; Jer 28:15; Jer 29:8,9,31; Isa 30:10,11; 2Th 2:9-11
divination		Jer 27:9,10; Jer 29:8,9,31; Eze 12:24; Eze 13:6,7,23; Eze 21:29; Mic 3:11; Zec 10:2
and the		Jer 23:26; Isa 30:10; Lam 2:14

Correlating Passages

The prophets

	Jer 23:25	I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
	Jer 23:26	How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
	Jer 27:10	For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
	Jer 27:14	Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
	Jer 28:13	Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
	Jer 29:21	Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
	Jer 37:19	Where [are] now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
	Isa 9:15	The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
	Zec 13:3	And it shall come to pass, [that] when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
	1Ti 4:2	Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

I sent

	Jer 23:14	I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
	Jer 23:15	Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
	Jer 23:16	Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.
	Jer 23:21	I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
	Jer 23:22	But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
	Jer 23:23	[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
	Jer 23:24	Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
	Jer 23:25	I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
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	Jer 27:15	For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.
	Jer 28:15	Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
	Jer 29:8	For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
	Jer 29:9	For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
	Jer 29:31	Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
	Isa 30:10	Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
	Isa 30:11	Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
	2Th 2:9	[Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
	2Th 2:10	And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
	2Th 2:11	And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

divination

	Jer 27:9	Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
	Jer 27:10	For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
	Jer 29:8	For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
	Jer 29:9	For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
	Jer 29:31	Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
	Eze 12:24	For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
	Eze 13:6	They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made [others] to hope that they would confirm the word.
	Eze 13:7	Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken?
	Eze 13:23	Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
	Eze 21:29	Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of [them that are] slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity [shall have] an end.
	Mic 3:11	The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
	Zec 10:2	For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.

and the

	Jer 23:26	How long shall [this] be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, [they are] prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
	Isa 30:10	Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
	Lam 2:14	Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 14:14," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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