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Lexicon :: Strong's H5030 - nāḇî'

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נָבִיא
Transliteration
nāḇî'
Pronunciation
naw-bee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1277a

Strong’s Definitions

נָבִיא nâbîyʼ, naw-bee'; from H5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:—prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x

The KJV translates Strong's H5030 in the following manner: prophet (312x), prophecy (1x), them that prophesy (1x), prophet (with H376) (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 316x
The KJV translates Strong's H5030 in the following manner: prophet (312x), prophecy (1x), them that prophesy (1x), prophet (with H376) (1x), variant (1x).

  1. spokesman, speaker, prophet

    1. prophet

    2. false prophet

    3. heathen prophet

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָבִיא nâbîyʼ, naw-bee'; from H5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:—prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
STRONGS H5030: Abbreviations
נָבִיא 306 noun masculine spokesman, speaker, prophet — נ׳ Genesis 20:7 155 times; suffix נְבִיאֶ֑ךָ Exodus 7:1; plural נְבִיאִים Numbers 11:29 + 82 times; נְנִאִים Jeremiah 27:18 + 16 times; suffix נְבִיאַי Psalm 105:15; נְבִיָאו 1 Kings 22:22; נְבִיאָו֯ 2 Kings 17:13, etc.; —
1. genuine prophet of י׳, נביא, anciently called רֹאֶה, 1 Samuel 9:9 (antiquarian note); change probably occurred in times of Elijah and is first reflected in Ehpraimitic source literally as applied to Abraham Genesis 20:7; Moses Deuteronomy 34:10, M. and other early prophets. Hosea 6:5; Hosea 12:11 (twice in verse); Hosea 12:14 (twice in verse); Amos 2:11, 12; of prophets in ecstatic state Numbers 12:6 (E), Numbers 11:24 (JE). So in Judaic literature, of prophet like Moses Deuteronomy 18:15, 18 (D), of Aaron (as mouthpiece of Moses) Exodus 7:1 (P), of Samuel 1 Samuel 3:20, an unknown Judges 6:8; in time of Samuel prophets were organized in bands: חֶבֶל נביאים 1 Samuel 10:5, 10:10; להקת הנ׳ 1 Samuel 19:20; and in time of Elijah were בְּנֵי הַנְּבִיאִים = members of prophets' guilds 1 Kings 20:35; 2 Kings 2:3, 5, 7, 15; 2 Kings 4:1, 38 (twice in verse); נָבִיא of genuine prophets (besides phrases), in Judaic prophets, only Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1:5; Ezekiel, Ezekiel 2:5 = Ezekiel 33:33; of ancient prophets Jeremiah 28:8, 9 (3 times in verse); Zechariah 1:6; Zechariah 8:9; especially הנביאים הראשׁנים Zechariah 1:4; Zechariah 7:7, 12, compare הנביאים עבדי(וׅ my (his) servants the prophets 2 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 17:13, 23; 2 Kings 21:10; 2 Kings 24:2 (all RD) Ezra 9:11; Jeremiah 7:25; Jeremiah 25:4; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 29:19; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 44:4; Amos 3:7; Zechariah 1:6, compare Ezekiel 38:17; Daniel 9:6; עבדוֺ הַנּ׳ his servant the prophet 1 Kings 14:18; 2 Kings 14:25; הַנָּבִיא with proper name: Jerome, 2 Chronicles 36:12; Daniel 9:2 + 31 times Jeremiah (but Greek Version of the LXX only + 4 times, the rest probably redactional, see GieJer. xxvii); Elijah 1 Kings 18:36 (om Greek Version of the LXX), 2 Chronicles 21:12; Malachi 3:23; Nathan 2 Samuel 7:2 + 10 times Samuel and Kings; + 4 times Chronicles; Psalm 51:2 (title); Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 20:1, 14 = Isaiah 37:2; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1; 2 Kings 20:11; 2 Chronicles 26:22; 32:20, 32; Habakkuk Habakkuk 1:1; Habakkuk 3:1 (titles); Haggai, Haggai 1:1, 3, 12; Haggai 2:1, 10; Zechariah, Zechariah 1:1, 7 (titles); elsewhere several others in Samuel, Kings and Chronicles + 15 times; נביא is used elsewhere of Genuine prophecy only 1 Samuel 9:9 + 34 times Samuel and Kings; 1 Chronicles 16:22 = Psalm 105:15, + 13 times Chronicles; Psalm 74:9 complains of absence of נ׳; לַחְתֹּם חָזוֺן וְנָבִיא Daniel 9:24 see חתם
2. false prophets: prophets as official class, beside priests, character as false prophets: Isaiah 28:7; Jeremiah 2:26; Jeremiah 4:9; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:1, 10; Jeremiah 13:13; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 23:11, 33, 34; Jeremiah 26:7, 8, 11, 16; Jeremiah 32:32; Zechariah 7:3, app. also 2 Kings 23:2; Nehemiah 9:32; Lamentations 2:20; Jeremiah 29:1; Ezekiel 7:26 (in these not characterized); always false (except of ancient and special prophets given above) in Amos 7:14; Hosea 4:5; Hosea 9:7, 8; Micah 3:5, 6, 11; Isaiah 3:2; Isaiah 9:14; Isaiah 29:10; Jeremiah 2:8, 30; Jeremiah 5:13, 31; Jeremiah 14:13, 14, 15 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 23:9 + 16 times Jeremiah 27:9, 14, 15, 16, 18; Jeremiah 29:8, 15; Jeremiah 37:19; Ezekiel 13:2 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 13:3, 4, 9, 16; Ezekiel 14:4, 7, 9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 14:10; Ezekiel 22:25, 28; Zephaniah 3:4; Lamentations 2:9, 14; Lamentations 4:13; especially discredited Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 18:20 (twice in verse); Deuteronomy 18:22 (twice in verse); Zechariah 13:2, 4, 5; such a prophet Hananiah called הַנָּבִיא Jeremiah 28:1, 5, 10, 12, 15, 17 (Greek Version of the LXX omits in all but Jeremiah 28:1, where ψευδοπροφήτης). Usage of prophets themselves gives such a bad flavour to נביא, that we are not surprised that it is absent from exilic Isaiah, the Wisdom Literature, and Psalms (except for special reasons in 3 Psalms given under 1).
3. heathen prophets 1 Kings 18:20; 1 Kings 19:1; 2 Kings 3:13 (twice in verse); נביאי האשׁדה 1 Kings 18:19; נביאי הבעל 1 Kings 18:19, 22, 25, 40; 2 Kings 10:19; 1 Kings 22:6, 10, 12, 13, 22, 23 2 Chronicles 18:5; 18:9; 18:11; 18:12; 18:21; 18:22.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:7; 20:7

Exodus

7:1; 7:1

Numbers

11:24; 11:29; 12:6

Deuteronomy

13:2; 13:4; 13:6; 18:15; 18:18; 18:20; 18:22; 34:10

Judges

6:8

1 Samuel

3:20; 9:9; 9:9; 10:5; 10:10; 19:20

2 Samuel

7:2

1 Kings

14:18; 18:19; 18:19; 18:20; 18:22; 18:25; 18:36; 18:40; 19:1; 20:35; 22:6; 22:10; 22:12; 22:13; 22:22; 22:22; 22:23

2 Kings

2:3; 2:5; 2:7; 2:15; 3:13; 4:1; 4:38; 9:7; 10:19; 14:25; 17:13; 17:13; 17:23; 19:2; 20:1; 20:11; 20:14; 21:10; 23:2; 24:2

1 Chronicles

16:22

2 Chronicles

18:5; 18:9; 18:11; 18:12; 18:21; 18:22; 21:12; 26:22; 32:20; 32:32; 36:12

Ezra

9:11

Nehemiah

9:32

Psalms

51:2; 74:9; 105:15; 105:15

Isaiah

3:2; 9:14; 28:7; 29:10; 37:2; 38:1; 39:1

Jeremiah

1:5; 2:8; 2:26; 2:30; 4:9; 5:13; 5:31; 6:13; 7:25; 8:1; 8:10; 13:13; 14:13; 14:14; 14:15; 14:18; 18:18; 23:9; 23:11; 23:33; 23:34; 25:4; 26:5; 26:7; 26:8; 26:11; 26:16; 27:9; 27:14; 27:15; 27:16; 27:18; 27:18; 28:1; 28:1; 28:5; 28:8; 28:9; 28:10; 28:12; 28:15; 28:17; 29:1; 29:8; 29:15; 29:19; 32:32; 35:15; 37:19; 44:4

Lamentations

2:9; 2:14; 2:20; 4:13

Ezekiel

2:5; 7:26; 13:2; 13:3; 13:4; 13:9; 13:16; 14:4; 14:7; 14:9; 14:10; 22:25; 22:28; 33:33; 38:17

Daniel

9:2; 9:6; 9:24

Hosea

4:5; 6:5; 9:7; 9:8; 12:11; 12:14

Amos

2:11; 2:12; 3:7; 7:14

Micah

3:5; 3:6; 3:11

Habakkuk

1:1; 3:1

Zephaniah

3:4

Haggai

1:1; 1:3; 1:12; 2:1; 2:10

Zechariah

1:1; 1:4; 1:6; 1:6; 1:7; 7:3; 7:7; 7:12; 8:9; 13:2; 13:4; 13:5

H5030

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Strong's Number H5030 matches the Hebrew נָבִיא (nāḇî'),
which occurs 317 times in 288 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 20:7–1Ki 18:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:29 - But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:6 - he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:15 - The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:18 - I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:20 - But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:22 - If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:10 - Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:20 - And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:9 - (Formerly in Israel, if someone went to inquire of God, they would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” because the prophet of today used to be called a seer.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:5 - “After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, timbrels, pipes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:10 - When he and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him; the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he joined in their prophesying.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - When all those who had formerly known him saw him prophesying with the prophets, they asked each other, “What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:12 - A man who lived there answered, “And who is their father?” So it became a saying: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:20 - so he sent men to capture him. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came on Saul’s men, and they also prophesied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:24 - He stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel’s presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:6 - He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am in great distress,” Saul said. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has departed from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:2 - he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:25 - and because the LORD loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:11 - Before David got up the next morning, the word of the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:8 - But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei and Rei and David’s special guard did not join Adonijah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:10 - but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the special guard or his brother Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:22 - While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:23 - And the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” So he went before the king and bowed with his face to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:32 - King David said, “Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” When they came before the king,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:34 - There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him king over Israel. Blow the trumpet and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:38 - So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon mount King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:44 - The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and they have put him on the king’s mule,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:45 - and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon. From there they have gone up cheering, and the city resounds with it. That’s the noise you hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:29 - About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:18 - The old prophet answered, “I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the LORD: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” (But he was lying to him.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:20 - While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the old prophet who had brought him back.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:23 - When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - Some people who passed by saw the body lying there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 - When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who defied the word of the LORD. The LORD has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the LORD had warned him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29 - So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2 - and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there—the one who told me I would be king over this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:18 - They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the LORD had said through his servant the prophet Ahijah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger by the things he did, becoming like the house of Jeroboam—and also because he destroyed it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:12 - So Zimri destroyed the whole family of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the LORD spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu—

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - While Jezebel was killing off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.

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