Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezekiel 13:21
Kerchiefs: see Ezekiel 13:18. My people; God owns them, at least some among them; though all were not his, yet he had a people among them. Your hand; power of their seductions.
Kerchiefs: see Ezekiel 13:18. My people; God owns them, at least some among them; though all were not his, yet he had a people among them. Your hand; power of their seductions.
Verse Ezekiel 13:21. _YOUR KERCHIEFS_] _Nets_, or _amulets_, as some think....
A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them, and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes inspired by the true God, as were Miriam, Deborah,...
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...
THE FALSE PROPHETESSES. But women, as well as men, contributed, and just as fatally, to the popular delusion. The false prophets were public men, who exercised an influence on politics; the false prop...
YOUR. Feminine suffix....
Denunciation of the false prophetesses Female prophets were not unknown in Israel whether in earlier or later times, as Deborah (Judges 4:3) and Huldah (2 Kings 22:14). The prophetesses referred to h...
B. The Condemnation of the Prophetesses 13:17-23 TRANSLATION (17) And as for you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their heart, and prophesy aga...
Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. THEY SHALL BE NO MORE IN YOUR HA...
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...
(17-23) LIKEWISE, THOU SON OF MAN, SET THY FACE... — This passage deals with a class of people the false prophetesses, who are not mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament. True prophetesses, as in th...
וְ קָרַעְתִּ֞י אֶת ־מִסְפְּחֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם וְ הִצַּלְתִּ֤י...
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 were, it should seem, in Ezekiel's days, women also that prophesied, and those prophesied falsely. We read of one Anna, a prophetess in the Church, just at the birth of Christ; and the promise o...
What the Prophet had said concerning the pillows he now pronounces of the veils, by which they were accustomed to cover either their own heads, or those of the persons who consulted them. The conclusi...
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...
YOUR KERCHIEFS ALSO WILL ONE TEAR,.... From their heads; discover their tricks, and expose them to the contempt of the people, and destroy both them and their works: AND DELIVER MY PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR...
_Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD._ Ver. 21. _And they shall be no...
_Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye hunt the souls_, &c. To make them run into those snares and seductions that you have laid for them, Ezekiel 13:18. The metaphor is continued from the m...
Your kerchiefs also, the caps which they used for such evil purposes, WILL I TEAR AND DELIVER MY PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE NO MORE IN YOUR HAND TO BE HUNTED, to be the prey of their w...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETESSES...
17-23 It is ill with those who had rather hear pleasing lies than unpleasing truths. The false prophetesses tried to make people secure, signified by laying them at ease, and to make them proud, sign...
Ezekiel 13:21 tear H7167 (H8804) veils H4555 deliver H5337 (H8689) people H5971 hand H3027 prey H4686 hand...
“Wherefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold I am against your armbands (wristbands) with which you hunt the people (nephesh - living person) as birds (or ‘as becoming flying ones'), and I will tear...
THE FALSE PROPHETESSES (EZEKIEL 13:17). We know from Miriam (Exodus 15:20), Deborah (Judges 4:4) and Huldah (2 Kings 22:14) that there were r
Ezekiel 13:17 I. The sewing of the pillows under the arms or elbows of those who came to consult the prophetesses was a symbolical act, intended to convey an answer by way of parable. The prophetesses...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 13:17 Attention turns to women who give prophecies out of their own imaginations. The term “prophetess,” used to describe genuine agents of God (e.g., Miriam in Exodus 15:20
CONDEMNATION OF THE PROPHETESSES (Ezekiel 13:17) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—A disposition to prophecy was in the air; so women as well as men, in Jerusalem and among the exiles, were influenced by it. Naturall...
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...
Ezekiel 13:9...