Jeremiah 23:22
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
But if they had stood in my counsel,.... As they boasted they did; or, as they reproached the true prophets, and charged them with vanity and arrogance, in talking as if they had; had this been truly…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
They should have turned them ... - The work of the true prophet, which is to turn men from evil unto good.
Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.…
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