When the king heard the prophet’s message that he had cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam took his hand from the altar and pointed it saying,“Seize him!” Then the hand that he had pointed at him stiffened up and he could not pull it back.
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TSK · Zechariah 11:17
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The leaders and the highly respected people are the head, the prophets who teach lies are the tail.
My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the LORD, is truly blind.
The LORD told me,“Go down to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there.
I, the LORD, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. I, the LORD, affirm it!”
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them– to the shepherds:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?
In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
“But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.
The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,
Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?