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THAT FOLLOW ... NOTHING - Better in the margin. A true prophet (like
Ezekiel) spoke “the word of the Lord,” and declared what he had
seen “in the visions of God.” These pretenders are stigmatized in
s...
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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...
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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...
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THE LORD GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. foolish.
Hebrew. _nabel._ See note on Proverbs 1:7.
THEIR OWN SPIRIT. Not the Holy Spirit.
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _roach._ App-9....
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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...
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_foolish prophets_ The word, not used again by Ezekiel, is rather a
moral term, meaning destitute of that wisdom the beginning of which is
the fear of the Lord (Psalms 13:1). Jeremiah charges the prop...
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AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING— Who give their own imaginations for true
prophesies, and pretend to have visions, when they never had any....
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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...
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow
their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS - through vaunting as though
exclusively possessing "wisdo...
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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...
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FOOLISH PROPHETS. — They were certainly foolish who undertook to
forge the name of the Omniscient, as it were, to utterances of their
own devising. Folly according to the use of the word in the Old
Te...
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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...
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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...
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_Nothing. Yet would lead the blind, though they are not directed by
God._...
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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...
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_Woe to, the foolish _or disgraceful _prophets _ נבל, _nebel_,
signifies “a vile person,” “a castaway,” just as נבלה,
_nebeleh_, means “foulness,” “crime,” “wickedness,”
although נבל, _nebel_, is ofte...
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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...
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THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS,.... The false
prophets, as the Targum; who are foolish, as all are who are not sent
of God, and furnished by him with wisdom and knowledge, and...
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow
their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
Ver. 3. _Woe unto the foolish prophets._] Wise enough they were in
their generation - and...
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_Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel_ So they called
themselves, as if none but they had been worthy of the name of
Israel's prophets, who were indeed Israel's deceivers. _Say unto the...
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Thus saith the Lord God, the sovereign Ruler of the universe, WOE UNTO
THE FOOLISH PROPHETS, vaunting themselves with a wisdom which was
nothing but foolishness in the sight of God, THAT FOLLOW THEIR...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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FOLLOW:
_ Heb._ walk after
AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING:
Or, and things which they have not seen...
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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...
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They shall be doubly miserable, suffering with the deceived, and
suffering by the enraged, when their lies are detected. FOOLISH
PROPHETS; either in a moral sense, i. e. wicked; or in a literal
sense,...
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Ezekiel 13:3 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Woe H1945 foolish
H5036 prophets H5030 follow H1980 ...
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THE FALSE PROPHETS (EZEKIEL 13:1).
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy
against the prophets of Israel, and say to those who prophesy out of
their own hearts, ‘You, hear...
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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...
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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...
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_Them that prophesy out of their own hearts._
THE FALSE PROPHET
To be a false prophet seems to us, indeed, an enormity. To have the
great gift and trust of prophecy, and then to misuse it; to be
admi...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 13:1 Chapters Ezekiel 13:1 condemn those who
speak false prophecy (ch. Ezekiel 13:1) and ig
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(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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 9:16; 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 3:9; Ezekiel 13:18;...
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Foolish prophets — Foolish prophets are not of God's sending: for
whom he sends, he either finds fit, or makes fit. Where he gives
warrant, he gives wisdom. Their own spirit — Not the spirit of God.
S...