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Ezekiel 13:16

To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.

The prophets ... which prophesy concerning Jerusalem and ... see visions of peace for her, and there is The prophets ... which prophesy concerning Jerusalem and ... see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace. With all their seeing, "visions of peace for her," they cannot ensure "peace" or safety to themselves.

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See also Ezekiel 13:16 in other biblical comments:

  • 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

    Their doom is therefore sealed. They too will be confounded in the confusion which they have helped to create. They shall be swept off the land of Israel, and their names shall not appear on the regis...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    VISIONS. a vision. PEACE. Reference to meaning of the word Jerusalem....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    to wit, _the prophets_ This construction puts "the prophets" in apposition with the last words of Ezekiel 13:15 "they that daubed it." The words may be taken as an address: Ye prophets of Israel &c....

  • 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...

  • 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

    THEY HAVE MADE OTHERS TO HOPE. — Omit the word “others,” which is not in the original, and translate, “The Lord hath not sent them that they should hope” — _i.e._, they have no ground to expect that t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נְבִיאֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הַֽ נִבְּאִים֙ אֶל ־יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם...

  • 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...

  • 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

    He now concludes this discourse, and shows what he had hitherto intended by a building badly cemented, by using sand without lime. _The prophets of Israel prophesied concerning Jerusalem_. Here he doe...

  • 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

    [TO WIT], THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL, WHICH PROPHESY CONCERNING JERUSALEM,.... This explains who are meant by those that daubed with untempered mortar: AND WHICH SEE VISIONS OF PEACE FOR HER; not in real...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ezekiel 13:16 [To wit], the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and [there is] no peace, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 16. _To wit, the prophets...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    to wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, setting forth their own false predictions, AND WHICH SEE VISIONS OF PEACE FOR HER, of salvation and deliverance in spite of her idol...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-16 One false prophet built the wall, set up the notion that Jerusalem should be victorious, and made himself acceptable by it. Others made the matter yet more plausible and promising; they daubed...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL: see EZEKIEL 13:2,4. WHICH SEE VISIONS: see EZEKIEL 13:7....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 13:16 prophets H5030 Israel H3478 prophesy H5012 (H8737) Jerusalem H3389 see H2374 visions H2377 peace H7965

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my anger, and there will be drenching rain in my fury, and great hailstones in anger to consume it. So will I break down...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace._ PEACE, AND THERE IS NO PEACE I. They “see visions of peace” who preach and speak what is pleasing rather than what is of truth and of God...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 13:10 A further connection with Jeremiah brackets this second oracle: the false declaration of PEACE (vv. Ezekiel 13:10,...

  • 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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 13:10; Isaiah 48:22; Isaiah 57:20; Isaiah 57:21; Jeremiah 28

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