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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 13:7

“Have you not seen a vain vision, and have you not spoken a lying divination? In that you say, ‘the oracle of Yahweh', in spite of the fact that I have not spoken?”

Whatever methods they used, even if it was just hopeful aspiration, they stand condemned. For although they claimed ‘the oracle of Yahweh' they did not in fact produce a word from Yahweh. Whoever spoke through them it was not Yahweh, for they spoke lies.

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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