Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 47:12-14
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Keep all your magic spells and charms; you have used them since you were young. Perhaps they will be of some help to you; perhaps you can frighten your enemies.
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You are powerless in spite of the advice you get. Let your astrologers come forward and save you--- those people who study the stars, who map out the zones of the heavens and tell you from month to month what is going to happen to you.
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"They will be like bits of straw, and a fire will burn them up! They will not even be able to save themselves--- the flames will be too hot for them, not a cozy fire to warm themselves by.
1 Kings 22:11
One of them, Zedekiah son of Chenaanah, made iron horns and said to Ahab, "This is what the LORD says: 'With these you will fight the Syrians and totally defeat them.' "
1 Kings 22:12
All the other prophets said the same thing. "March against Ramoth and you will win," they said. "The LORD will give you victory."
1 Kings 22:22-25
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'How?' the LORD asked. The spirit replied, 'I will go and make all of Ahab's prophets tell lies.' The LORD said, 'Go and deceive him. You will succeed.' "
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And Micaiah concluded: "This is what has happened. The LORD has made these prophets of yours lie to you. But he himself has decreed that you will meet with disaster!"
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Then the prophet Zedekiah went up to Micaiah, slapped his face, and asked, "Since when did the LORD's spirit leave me and speak to you?"
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"You will find out when you go into some back room to hide," Micaiah replied.
1 Kings 22:37-25
2 Chronicles 18:11
All the other prophets said the same thing. "March against Ramoth and you will win," they said. "The LORD will give you victory."
2 Chronicles 18:34
While the battle raged on, King Ahab remained propped up in his chariot, facing the Syrians. At sunset he died.
Jeremiah 27:9
Do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim they can predict the future, either by dreams or by calling up the spirits of the dead or by magic. They all tell you not to submit to the king of Babylonia.
Jeremiah 27:10
They are deceiving you and will cause you to be taken far away from your country. I will drive you out, and you will be destroyed.
Jeremiah 28:9-17
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But a prophet who predicts peace can only be recognized as a prophet whom the LORD has truly sent when that prophet's predictions come true."
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Then Hananiah took the yoke off my neck, broke it in pieces,
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and said in the presence of all the people, "The LORD has said that this is how he will break the yoke that King Nebuchadnezzar has put on the neck of all the nations; and he will do this within two years." Then I left.
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Some time after this the LORD told me
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to go and tell Hananiah: "The LORD has said that you may be able to break a wooden yoke, but he will replace it with an iron yoke.
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The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, has said that he will put an iron yoke on all these nations and that they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. The LORD has said that he will make even the wild animals serve Nebuchadnezzar."
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Then I told Hananiah this, and added, "Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, and you are making these people believe a lie.
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And so the LORD himself says that he is going to get rid of you. Before this year is over you will die because you have told the people to rebel against the LORD."
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And Hananiah died in the seventh month of that same year.
Jeremiah 50:36
Death to its lying prophets--- what fools they are! Death to its soldiers--- how terrified they are!
maketh
Exodus 9:11
The magicians were not able to appear before Moses, because they were covered with boils, like all the other Egyptians.
Daniel 1:20
No matter what question the king asked or what problem he raised, these four knew ten times more than any fortuneteller or magician in his whole kingdom.
Daniel 2:10-12
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The advisers replied, "There is no one on the face of the earth who can tell Your Majesty what you want to know. No king, not even the greatest and most powerful, has ever made such a demand of his fortunetellers, magicians, and wizards.
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What Your Majesty is asking for is so difficult that no one can do it for you except the gods, and they do not live among human beings."
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At that, the king flew into a rage and ordered the execution of all the royal advisers in Babylon.
Daniel 4:7
Then all the fortunetellers, magicians, wizards, and astrologers were brought in, and I told them my dream, but they could not explain it to me.
Daniel 5:6-8
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He turned pale and was so frightened that his knees began to shake.
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He shouted for someone to bring in the magicians, wizards, and astrologers. When they came in, the king said to them, "Anyone who can read this writing and tell me what it means will be dressed in robes of royal purple, wear a gold chain of honor around his neck, and be the third in power in the kingdom."
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The royal advisers came forward, but none of them could read the writing or tell the king what it meant.
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Isaiah 19:11-14
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The leaders of the city of Zoan are fools! Egypt's wisest people give stupid advice! How do they dare to tell the king that they are successors to the ancient scholars and kings?
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King of Egypt, where are those clever advisers of yours? Perhaps they can tell you what plans the LORD Almighty has for Egypt.
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The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it.
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The LORD has made them give confusing advice. As a result, Egypt does everything wrong and staggers like a drunk slipping on his own vomit.
Isaiah 29:14
So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless."
2 Samuel 15:31
When David was told that Ahithophel had joined Absalom's rebellion, he prayed, "Please, LORD, turn Ahithophel's advice into nonsense!"
2 Samuel 16:23
Any advice that Ahithophel gave in those days was accepted as though it were the very word of God; both David and Absalom followed it.
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and went back to his hometown. After putting his affairs in order, he hanged himself. He was buried in the family grave.
Job 5:12-14
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He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds;
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even at noon they grope in darkness.
Psalm 33:10
The LORD frustrates the purposes of the nations; he keeps them from carrying out their plans.
Jeremiah 49:7
This is what the LORD Almighty said about Edom: "Have the people of Edom lost their good judgment? Can their advisers no longer tell them what to do? Has all their wisdom disappeared?
Jeremiah 51:57
I will make its rulers drunk--- men of wisdom, leaders, and soldiers. They will go to sleep and never wake up. I, the king, have spoken; I am the LORD Almighty.
1 Corinthians 1:20-27
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So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skillful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!
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For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called "foolish" message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.
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Jews want miracles for proof, and Greeks look for wisdom.
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As for us, we proclaim the crucified Christ, a message that is offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles;
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but for those whom God has called, both Jews and Gentiles, this message is Christ, who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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For what seems to be God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and what seems to be God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
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Now remember what you were, my friends, when God called you. From the human point of view few of you were wise or powerful or of high social standing.
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God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God's sight. As the scripture says, "God traps the wise in their cleverness";
1 Corinthians 3:20
and another scripture says, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are worthless."