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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 13 - Introduction

13. Denunciation of the False Prophets (Ezekiel 13:1) and Prophetesses (Ezekiel 13:17). Besides the delay of the doom which Ezekiel threatened, the people were deluded by the welcome and reassuring promises of the false prophets, of whose temper and methods this chapter draws a very living picture.

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See also Ezekiel 13 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Against the false prophets and prophetesses The passage is an expansion of ch. Ezekiel 12:24, and has three main parts: first, Ezekiel 13:1 denunciation of the prophets as persons who help forward th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _THE REPROOF OF LYING PROPHETS, AND THEIR UNTEMPERED MORTAR. OF PROPHETESSES AND THEIR PILLOWS._ _Before Christ 594._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. Chronologically, where should the sermons and symbols of Chapter s 12-14 be placed? 2. By what symbolic act did Ezekiel portray the deportation of Jerusalem's inhabitants? How...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (c-0) (The title of this book, 'Ezekiel'), Meaning, 'Strength of God.' captives (d-25) Lit. 'captivity.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XIII. A prophecy very similar to this was uttered by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 23), only a few years before, against the false prophets in and around Jerusalem. It is not unlikely that Ezekiel may have read...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 13 It being said in Ezekiel 12:24; that there should be no more a vain vision, nor a flattering divination; the prophet is ordered to prophesy against the false prophets and p...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Heavy judgments against lying prophets. (1-9) The insufficiency of their work. (10-16) Woes against false prophetesses. (17-23)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 13. YAHWEH'S DENUNCIATION OF PROPHETS WHO PROPHESY THEIR OWN IDEAS. Ezekiel has depicted the failure of the leaders of the people, the princes, the priests and the elders. Now he turns his att...

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