Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezekiel 13:12
Will not men thenceforth laugh you to scorn? you that built, you that daubed, you that applauded the wall, will they not upbraid you with your folly?
Will not men thenceforth laugh you to scorn? you that built, you that daubed, you that applauded the wall, will they not upbraid you with your folly?
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...
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...
Confusion of the false prophets....
DISCOURSE: 1103 DELUSIVE CONFIDENCE REPROVED Ezekiel 13:10. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it...
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...
Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? WHEN THE WALL IS FALLEN, SHALL IT NOT BE SAID UNTO YOU. Your vanity and folly shall be...
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...
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...
WHERE IS THE DAUBING? — The basis of all their false prophesying being destroyed by the coming judgments, the folly and falsehood of their words would be exposed to the eyes of all. As it is said in E...
וְ הִנֵּ֖ה נָפַ֣ל הַ קִּ֑יר הֲ לֹוא֙
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...
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...
He confirms the last sentence, namely, that the false prophets would be a laughing-stock to all when their prophecies and divinations came to nothing, for the event would show them to be liars. For wh...
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...
LO, WHEN THE WALL IS FALLEN,.... Jerusalem is taken: SHALL IT NOT BE SAID UNTO YOU; the false prophets, by the people who had been deceived by them: WHERE [IS] THE DAUBING WHEREWITH YE HAVE DAUBED ...
_Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where [is] the daubing wherewith ye have daubed [it]?_ Ver. 12. _Lo, when the wall is fallen._] As fall it will, and with a force, because...
_They have seduced my people_, &c. Have made my people to err, both with respect to the greatness of their own guilt, and my displeasure on account of it, as if both were less than they really are, an...
Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? The hypocrisy and falsehood of the false prophets' ministry would become evident in the co...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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...
Ezekiel 13:12 wall H7023 fallen H5307 (H8804) said H559 (H8735) mortar H2915 plastered H2902 (H8804)...
“Lo, when the wall is fallen will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you whitewashed it?' ” The prophets should consider what will happen when their prophecies prove false. Whe...
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...
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...
_One built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar._ THE WALL DAUBED WITH UNTEMPERED MORTAR I. The text speaks of a wall. Men look about them to discover some sort of wall or other...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 13:10 A further connection with Jeremiah brackets this second oracle: the false declaration of PEACE (vv. Ezekiel 13:10,...
(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...
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
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...
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...
2 Kings 3:13; Deuteronomy 32:37; Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 29:31;...