Oracle
A divine utterance or prophetic message delivered through a human spokesperson. The Hebrew massa ('burden, oracle') introduces many prophetic pronouncements (Isaiah 13:1, Nahum 1:1, Habakkuk 1:1). Oracles could be messages of judgment ('the oracle concerning Babylon,' Isaiah 13:1) or salvation ('I will hear what God the Lord speaks, for he speaks peace to his people,' Psalm 85:8). The early church valued prophetic oracles (1 Corinthians 14:1-5). Peter described Scripture itself as 'the very words (oracles) of God' (Romans 3:2, 1 Peter 4:11). True oracles are distinguished from false ones by their alignment with God's revealed character and prior revelation (Deuteronomy 18:21-22).
Verses about Oracle
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שמואל ב 16:23
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahith…
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מלכים א 6:5
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: a…
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מלכים א 6:16
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for …
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מלכים א 6:19
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
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מלכים א 6:20
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid i…
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מלכים א 6:21
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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מלכים א 6:22
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
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מלכים א 6:23
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
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מלכים א 6:31
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
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מלכים א 7:49
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs o…
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מלכים א 8:6
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the …
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מלכים א 8:8
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and the…
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דברי הימים ב 3:16
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
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דברי הימים ב 4:20
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
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דברי הימים ב 5:7
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the …
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דברי הימים ב 5:9
And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And t…
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תהלים 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
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מעשי השליחים 7:38
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the liv…
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רומים 3:2
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
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עברים 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are be…