100 Bible Verses About Prophets
Bible verses about Prophets
Delve into the profound wisdom of scripture and explore the role of prophets, messengers divinely chosen to speak truth and guide humanity. Understanding prophets unveils God's consistent communication with His people, revealing His unwavering love and persistent call towards righteousness. Through their stories, struggles, and unwavering faith, we witness the power of divine guidance and the importance of heeding God's voice in our own lives. Studying these verses illuminates the timeless relevance of prophecy, urging us to discern truth, embrace hope, and actively participate in God's unfolding plan for the world. Let the words of the prophets inspire you to seek a deeper connection with the divine.
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Deuteronomy 32:16 (KJV)
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Prophets: Hearing God's Voice Through the Ages
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.
Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
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?
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.
And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth–maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:
Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.
Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
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 upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.
And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.
The selected Bible verses on prophets reveal their multifaceted role as messengers, foretellers, and moral compasses in biblical narratives. They were conduits of divine communication, delivering both comfort and condemnation. From warnings of impending doom to promises of future restoration, prophets challenged the status quo, urging repentance and faithfulness. Examining these verses underscores the importance of discerning truth, heeding warnings, and recognizing the ongoing need for prophetic voices in every generation. Whether we interpret prophecy literally or metaphorically, the call to listen attentively, act justly, and remain steadfast in our commitment to God's will resonates powerfully. May these scriptures inspire deep reflection on our own roles in speaking truth to power and living lives that embody the prophetic spirit.