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Ezekiel 13:5

1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10; Amos 5:18; Ephesians 6:13; Ephesians 6:14; Exodus 17:9; Exodus 32:11; Exodus 32:12; Ezekiel 22:30; Ezekiel 30:3; Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 13:9; Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 27:4; Isaiah 34:8; Isaiah 58:12; Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 23:22; Jeremiah 27:18; Job 40:9; Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1; Joel 2:31; Joel 3:14; Lamentations 2:13; Lamentations 2:14; Malachi 1:9; Malachi 4:5; Numbers 16:21; Numbers 16:22; Numbers 16:47; Numbers 16:48; Psalms 106:23; Psalms 76:7; Revelation 16:14; Revelation 20:8; Revelation 20:9; Revelation 6:17; Zephaniah 1:14; Zephaniah 2:2; Zephaniah 2:3

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See also Ezekiel 13:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 13:5. _YE HAVE NOT GONE UP INTO THE GAPS_] Far from opposing sinners, who are bringing down the wrath of God upon the place, you prevent their repentance by your flattering promises and...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR - Or, before. In a time of siege when there are gaps or breaches in the walls, it is the part of the leaders to go up to defend them, and to throw up works to stop the in-road of the enemy. Yahweh...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 13:1. And now the Lord speaks through Ezekiel about the false prophets in the midst of His people. They prophesied out of their own hearts; or as it might be rendered, “Who prophesy from their...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 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 reass...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GAPS. breaches. HEDGE. fence or wall of. vineyard (Numbers 22:24. PSA. Eze 80:12.Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 5:5). SAYING,. THE LORD SAINT ' = saying [it] is Jehovah's oracle. they would confirm the

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The lying prophets are like foxes among the ruins (1) Ezekiel 13:1. The inspiration of these prophets is not from the spirit of God but from their own heart. (2) Ezekiel 13:4. Consequently so far as...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _gone up into the gaps_ Or, _breaches_. Ezekiel turning to the prophets themselves uses "ye" a frequent change of person in animated speech. _made up the hedge_ Or, _fence_, R.V. If they had been true...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. TWO SCATHING ORACLES DELIVERED 13:1-23 In chapter 13 Ezekiel directs his attack against those who spawned the blasphemous proverbs which he has just refuted in Ezekiel 12:21-28. Ezekiel denounce...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. YE HAVE NOT GONE UP INTO THE GAPS. Metaphor from breaches made in...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 GOD WILL PUNISH THE FALSE *PROPHETS – EZEKIEL 13:1-23...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE HAVE NOT GONE UP INTO THE GAPS. — The change of person is frequent enough in prophecy, and especially common in Ezekiel. It is changed back in Ezekiel 13:6, and changed again in Ezekiel 13:7. The _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹ֤א עֲלִיתֶם֙ בַּ † פְּרָצֹ֔ות וַ תִּגְדְּר֥וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed under the g...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next movement in the prophesying was a denunciation of false prophets and prophetesses. The prophets were not inspired by the Spirit of God, but followed their own spirit. In so doing they had, li...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (c) Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. (c) He speaks to the governor and true ministers that would hav...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Enemy. You do not admonish sinners of their evil ways, nor strive to avert God's indignation, in imitation of true prophets, (Exodus xxxii. 10.) but rather undermine the wall like foxes._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is somewhat very striking and awful in this scripture. One should hardly conceive it possible that any men, much less a multitude of men, should ever go forward unsent, and without authority fro...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Hence he pursues the same sentiment, but presses the false prophets harder. He has said generally that they were sacrilegious, making a false use of God’s name when speaking entirely in their own. He...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. Chapter 13 judges the prophets who deceived the people in Jerusalem by their pretended visions of peace. In chapter 14 the elders of Israel come an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YE HAVE NOT GONE UP INTO THE GAPS,.... Or "breaches" d; so the Targum. The allusion is to breaches made in the walls of a city when besieged; at which time those within gather together in great number...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. Ver. 5. _Ye have not gone up into the gaps._] Reclaimed the people...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Ye have not gone up into the gaps_ Or stood in the _gap_, or _breach_, as it is expressed Ezekiel 22:30; Psalms 106:23. Ye have not exercised your prophetical office, and framed your own conduct, so...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ye have not gone up into the gaps, by placing themselves in the breaches to resist the attacks of the enemies directed against such weak spots, NEITHER MADE UP THE HEDGE FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, liter...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GAPS: Or, breaches MADE UP THE HEDGE: _ Heb._ hedged the hedge...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Where God gives a warrant to do any thing, he gives wisdom. What they delivered was not what they had seen or heard, as that is which the ministers of Christ deliver. They were not praying prophet...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Ye, vulpine prophets. As in a besieged city whose wall is broken down and the enemy ready to enter, a valiant, faithful, and vigilant soldier would run up into the breach to repel the enemy; so true p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 13:5 up H5927 (H8804) gaps H6556 build H1443 (H8799) wall H1447 house H1004 Israel H3478 stand...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places (ruins). You have not gone up into the gaps, nor made up the fence for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message against lying prophets. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Since the devil is the father of lies, those put the highest affront upon God who, claiming to be his prophets, tell l...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 13:3. _Woe to the foolish prophets oh Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts._ The vineyards in rough and rocky places, like our bramble, produced the most delicious grapes. Th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 13:1 Chapters Ezekiel 13:1 condemn those who speak false prophecy (ch. Ezekiel 13:1) and ig

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (4.) OF FALSE PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSES (Chap. 13) _Condemnation of the Prophets_ (Ezekiel 13:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The declaration in Ezekiel 12:24 was that unsubstantiated and delusive prophecy shou...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 13:1 Another interval follows, and then a fresh and fuller burst of inspiration, manifestly in close connection with Ezekiel 12:21, and to be read in combination with Jer

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 13. THE FALSE IN PROPHECY, ITS CHARACTER AND DOOM. A VERY close connection exists between the subject of this chapter and the one immediately preceding. The former had denounced the false exp...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The word of the LORD came unto me saying, Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say unto them that prophesy is out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; T...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye — Vain prophets. Gone up — As in a besieged city, whose wall is broken down, a valiant soldier would run up into the breach to repel the enemy; so true prophets partly by prayer, and partly by doct...

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