“The prophets are as wind, And the word is not in them. So it will be done to them!”
Parallel translations
- WEB The prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.”
- KJV And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
- BSB The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”
- NKJV And the prophets become wind, For the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.”
- NLT God’s prophets are all windbags who don’t really speak for him. Let their predictions of disaster fall on themselves!’”
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Quick answer
David takes more wives and concubines in Jerusalem, and more children are born to him. The note records a practice that, though common for kings, departed from God's design.
Overview
After moving to Jerusalem, David adds to his household with further wives and concubines, and his family grows. While accepted royal custom of the day, this multiplying of wives ran contrary to God's instruction for kings (Deuteronomy 17:17) and would sow seeds of future family strife. Scripture records David's success and his flaws honestly, reminding us that even God's chosen king needed grace and was not the perfect King to come.
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Cross-references · 8
- Jer 14:15Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.
- Jer 14:13Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”
- Job 8:2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
- Hos 9:7The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
- Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
- Job 6:26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
- Jer 28:3Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon.
- Jer 20:8–11For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.
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