Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 13:23
See no more vanity — They shall see all their predictions vanish, which shall so confound them, that they shall pretend no more to visions.
See no more vanity — They shall see all their predictions vanish, which shall so confound them, that they shall pretend no more to visions.
Verse Ezekiel 13:23. _YE SHALL SEE NO MORE VANITY_] They pretended _visions_; but they were _empty_ of _reality_. _NOR DIVINE DIVINATIONS_] As God would not speak to them, they employed _demons_. Wh...
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...
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...
The judgment of God is at hand which shall make an end of all false prophecy and divination. Ch. Ezekiel 12:24; Micah 3:6-7; Amos 8:11. The issue of these judgments shall be that Jehovah shall be know...
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...
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. YE SHALL SEE NO MORE VANITY. The event shall conf...
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...
YE SHALL SEE NO MORE VANITY. — As so often the judgment is expressed in the same form with the Sin. These false prophetesses had sinned by their lying visions, and they should see them no more, becaus...
לָכֵ֗ן שָׁ֚וְא לֹ֣א תֶחֱזֶ֔ינָה וְ קֶ֖סֶם לֹא
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...
REFLECTIONS READER! what a mercy is it, in our day, that amidst all the false prophets and heresies; which have come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord hath lifted up, and doth continue to lift u...
It follows, _you shall not see a lie any more_. He has hitherto explained the reason why God grew so warm against these women, because they destroyed miserable souls either by their cruelty or their f...
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...
THEREFORE YE SHALL SEE NO MORE VANITY, NOR DIVINE DIVINATIONS,.... They should not be suffered any longer to impose upon the people; and they should be so sufficiently exposed, that the people would n...
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 23. _Therefore ye shall see no more vanity._...
_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...
therefore ye shall see no more vanity, have visions of things which were without foundation, which were invented by them for their own evil purposes, NOR DIVINE DIVINATIONS, in false predictions of th...
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...
See EZEKIEL 12:24. Either these prophetesses with the prophets of the same stamp shall perish in the day of calamity, and of the miseries that they persnaded others to slight and contemn. Or else, if...
Ezekiel 13:23 envision H2372 (H8799) futility H7723 practice H7080 (H8799) divination H7081 deliver H5337 (H8689)
“Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way and be saved alive. The...
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 13:22 The false female prophets of the preceding oracle are addressed in v. Ezekiel 13:23 (YOU SHALL NO MORE)....
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...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Timothy 3:9; Deuteronomy 18:20; Ezekiel 12:24;...