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Jer. 23:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem νan horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in liesl: they strengthenm also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodomo, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

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or, filthiness.

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Jer. 23:26,32• ²⁶{i}How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, and who are prophets of the deceit of their own heart?{/i}
³²Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:26,32)

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Isa. 41:6‑7• ⁶They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
⁷So the carpenter encouraged the founder, he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, [it is] good: and he fasteneth it with nails, [that] it be not moved. (Isa. 41:6‑7)

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Isa. 1:9‑10• ⁹Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have resembled Gomorrha.
¹⁰Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. (Isa. 1:9‑10)

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in the.

Jer. 5:30‑31• ³⁰{i}An appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land:{/i}
³¹{i}the prophets prophesy falsehood, and the priests rule by their means; and my people love to have it so. But what will ye do in the end thereof?{/i} (Jer. 5:30‑31)

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Jer. 14:14• ¹⁴Then Jehovah 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. (Jer. 14:14)

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Jer. 23:32• ³²Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:32)

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Ezek. 13:2‑4,16• ²Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of Jehovah;
³Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
⁴Ο Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
¹⁶to wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:2‑4,16)

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Ezek. 22:25• ²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. (Ezek. 22:25)

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Isa. 41:6‑7• ⁶They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
⁷So the carpenter encouraged the founder, he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, [it is] good: and he fasteneth it with nails, [that] it be not moved. (Isa. 41:6‑7)

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Mic. 3:11• ¹¹{i}The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.{/i} (Mic. 3:11)

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Zeph. 3:4• ⁴Her prophets are light and treacherous persons, her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. (Zeph. 3:4)

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2 Peter 2:1‑2• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also false teachers among you, such as shall bring in by-the-bye sects of perdition, denying even the Sovereign Master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift perdition;
²and many shall follow their dissolutenesses; because of whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed. (2 Peter 2:1‑2)

an horrible thing.

or, filthiness.

Jer. 18:13• ¹³Therefore, thus saith Jehovah; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. (Jer. 18:13)

they commit.

Jer. 29:23• ²³because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 29:23)

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2 Peter 2:14‑19• ¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness,
¹⁶but had reproof of his own iniquity; a dumb beast of burden speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet.
¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved.
¹⁸For uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is worsted, by him is he also held in bondage. (2 Peter 2:14‑19)

walk.

Jer. 23:17,25‑26,32• ¹⁷{i}They say constantly unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace. And they say unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart, No evil shall come upon you.{/i}
²⁵{i}I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.{/i}
²⁶{i}How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, and who are prophets of the deceit of their own heart?{/i}
³²Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:17,25‑26,32)

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Jer. 14:14• ¹⁴Then Jehovah 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. (Jer. 14:14)

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Ezek. 22:25• ²⁵There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. (Ezek. 22:25)

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2 Thess. 2:9‑11• ⁹whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
¹¹And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error that they should believe falsehood, (2 Thess. 2:9‑11)

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1 Tim. 4:2• ²by hypocrisy of legendmongers, branded in their own conscience, (1 Tim. 4:2)

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Rev. 19:20• ²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs before him, with which he deceived those that had received the mark of the beast and those that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone. (Rev. 19:20)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

strengthen.

Ezek. 13:22‑23• ²²Because ye sadden with falsehood the heart of the righteous whom I have not saddened, and strengthen the hands of the wicked that he should not return from his wicked way that I should save his life.
²³Therefore 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 Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:22‑23)

Sodom.

Gen. 13:13• ¹³{i}And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.{/i} (Gen. 13:13)

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Gen. 18:20• ²⁰And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is great, and because their sin is very grievous, (Gen. 18:20)

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Deut. 32:32• ³²{i}For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,{HR}And of the fields of Gomorrah:{HR}Their grapes are grapes of poison,{HR}Bitter are their clusters;{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:32)

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Isa. 1:9‑10• ⁹Unless Jehovah of hosts had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have resembled Gomorrha.
¹⁰Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha. (Isa. 1:9‑10)

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Ezek. 16:46‑52• ⁴⁶And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
⁴⁷Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
⁴⁸As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
⁴⁹Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
⁵⁰And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
⁵¹Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
⁵²Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. (Ezek. 16:46‑52)

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Mal. 1:1• ¹The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi. (Mal. 1:1)

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Matt. 11:24• ²⁴{i}But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for [the] land of Sodom in judgment-day than for thee.{/i} (Matt. 11:24)

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2 Peter 2:6• ⁶and reducing to ashes [the] cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, he condemned [them] with overthrow, having set an example to those that should live ungodlily, (2 Peter 2:6)

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Jude 7• ⁷as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities around them, having in the like manner with them greedily committed fornication and gone after strange flesh, lie there an example, undergoing judgment of eternal fire. (Jude 7)

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Rev. 11:8• ⁸And their dead body {i}shall be{/i} on the street of the great city which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. (Rev. 11:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

W. Kelly Translation

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And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)