Deuteronomy 13:1-5

Warning Against Idolatry

¹ "If a prophet or _q a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, ² and _r the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us serve them,' ³ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God _s is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴ You shall _t walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and _u hold fast to him. ⁵ But _v that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. _w So you shall purge the evil ₁ from your midst.

1. Cross References
   Jeremiah 23:25
   I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed, I have dreamed!
   Jeremiah 23:32
   Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.
   Jeremiah 27:9
   So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.
   Jeremiah 29:8
   For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream.
   Zechariah 10:2
   For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 18:22
   When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
   Jeremiah 28:9
   As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 8:2
   And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Kings 23:3
   And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.
   2 Chronicles 34:31
   And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 10:20
   You shall fear the Lord your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.
   
6. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 18:20
   But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
   Jeremiah 2:8
   The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord ?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.
   Jeremiah 14:14 - 15
   And the Lord said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.
   Zechariah 13:3
   And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, 'You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.' And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
   
7. Cross References
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