Quotes About Prophet

So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.

But he did not invite Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the mighty men, or his brother Solomon.

And just then, while Bathsheba was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet arrived.

So the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and bowed facedown before the king.

“My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ëAdonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throneí?

Then King David said, “Call in for me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.

There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ramís horn and declare, ëLong live King Solomon!í

And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the kingís mule.

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city. That is the noise you hear.

During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.

But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:

Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.

“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.

So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it

and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.

So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ëYou must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.í”

Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ëBring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.í” The old prophet was lying to him,

While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ëBecause you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,

And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.

And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.

When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”