Bible Verses About Prophets

if these men die a natural death like other people, only sharing the fate common to all humanity, then ADONAI has not sent me.

Bil'am answered the servants of Balak, "Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of ADONAI my God to do anything, great or small.

Bil'am replied to Balak, "Here, I've come to you! But I have no power of my own to say anything. The word that God puts in my mouth is what I will say."

Then ADONAI put a word in Bil'am's mouth and said, "Go on back to Balak, and speak as I tell you."

He answered, "Mustn't I take care to say just what ADONAI puts in my mouth?"

Look, I am ordered to bless; when he blesses, I can't reverse it.

However, Bil'am answered Balak, "Didn't I warn you that I must do everything ADONAI says?"

Bil'am raised his eyes and saw Isra'el encamped tribe by tribe. Then the Spirit of God came upon him,

and he made his pronouncement: "This is the speech of Bil'am, son of B'or; the speech of the man whose eyes have been opened;

the speech of him who hears God's words; who sees what Shaddai sees, who has fallen, yet has open eyes:

So he made his pronouncement: "This is the speech of Bil'am, son of B'or; the speech of the man whose eyes have been opened;

the speech of him who hears God's words; who knows what 'Elyon knows, who sees what Shaddai sees, who has fallen, yet has open eyes:

There, beyond the Yarden, in the land of Mo'av, Moshe took it upon himself to expound this Torah and said:

"ADONAI spoke to us in Horev. He said, 'You have lived long enough by this mountain.

ADONAI spoke with you face to face from the fire on the mountain.

At that time I stood between ADONAI and you in order to tell you what ADONAI was saying; because, on account of the fire, you were afraid and wouldn't go up onto the mountain. He said, t

"'I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves. c

But you, stand here by me; and I will tell you all the mitzvot, laws and rulings which you are to teach them, so that they can obey them in the land I am giving them as their possession.'

"ADONAI will raise up for you a prophet like me from among yourselves, from your own kinsmen. You are to pay attention to him,

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I order him.

"'But if a prophet presumptuously speaks a word in my name which I didn't order him to say, or if he speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet must die.'

Moshe came and proclaimed all the words of this song in the hearing of the people and of Hoshea the son of Nun.

Y'hoshua the son of Nun was full of the Spirit of wisdom, for Moshe had laid his hands on him, and the people of Isra'el heeded him and did what ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

Since that time there has not arisen in Isra'el a prophet like Moshe, whom ADONAI knew face to face.

What signs and wonders ADONAI sent him to perform in the land of Egypt upon Pharaoh, all his servants and all his land!