Verse Ezekiel 13:4. _THY PROPHETS ARE LIKE THE FOXES IN THE DESERTS._] The cunning of the _fox_ in obtaining his prey has been long proverbial. These false prophets are represented as the foxes who, h...
IN THE DESERTS - Foxes find a home among ruins etc. Lamentations 5:18. So the prophets find their profit in the ruin of their country....
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...
EZEKIEL 13. DENUNCIATION OF THE FALSE PROPHETS (EZEKIEL 13:1) AND PROPHETESSES (EZEKIEL 13:17). Besides the delay of the doom which Ezekiel threatened, the people were deluded by the welcome and reass...
FOXES. jackals. DESERTS. ruins....
The lying prophets are like foxes among the ruins (1) Ezekiel 13:1. The inspiration of these prophets is not from the spirit of God but from their own heart. (2) Ezekiel 13:4. Consequently so far as...
_foxes in the deserts_ in THE WASTE PLACES, i.e. ruins. The prophets are like foxes; ruins are congenial to them; a condition of decay is their proper sphere; there they can burrow as their instincts...
LIKE THE FOXES IN THE DESERTS— Or, as the apostle styles them, 2 Corinthians 11:13 _deceitful workers,_ who craftily insinuate false doctrines into unstable minds, and at the same time are hungry and...
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...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. O ISRAEL, THY PROPHETS ARE LIKE THE FOXES - which cunningly "spoil the vines" (), Israel being the vineyard (Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 5:1;...
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...
LIKE THE FOXES IN THE DESERTS. — The comparison is sufficiently close if it is considered as extending only to these mischievous men living unconcerned among the ruins of their state and country, as t...
PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed under the g...
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...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes (b) in the deserts. (b) Watching to destroy the vineyard....
_Deserts, or ruins. They sought only to gratify themselves._...
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...
Hence Ezekiel exposes the snares of the false prophets. The ten tribes had been dispersed, just as if a field or a vineyard had been removed from a habitable neighborhood into desert regions, and foxe...
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...
O ISRAEL, THY PROPHETS ARE LIKE THE FOXES OF THE DESERTS. The false prophets, as the Targum; these are called Israel's prophets, because received, embraced, and encouraged by them; not the Lord's, for...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ver. 4. _O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes._] Cowardly, crafty, cruel, greedy: _venatores eludunt, et cum mortuae videntur, reviviscu...
_Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel_ So they called themselves, as if none but they had been worthy of the name of Israel's prophets, who were indeed Israel's deceivers. _Say unto the...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts, in the ruins, for the self-appointed leaders and teachers of the people were wily destroyers, who worked stealthily, but none the less surely,...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
1-9 Where God gives a warrant to do any thing, he gives wisdom. What they delivered was not what they had seen or heard, as that is which the ministers of Christ deliver. They were not praying prophet...
O ISRAEL; a pathetical exclamation to awake Israel, both the dwellers at Jerusalem and those at Babylon. THY PROPHETS, not mine, as EZEKIEL 13:2. LIKE THE FOXES; hungry and ravening, crafty and guilef...
Ezekiel 13:4 Israel H3478 prophets H5030 foxes H7776 deserts H2723 like - Song of Solomon 2:15;...
“O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places (ruins). You have not gone up into the gaps, nor made up the fence for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh...
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...
_Thy prophets are like the foxes in the desert._ FALSE PROPHETS LIKE FOXES 1. These creatures are lovers of grapes, as we know by a common proverb; and consequently they did much damage in such count...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 13:1 Chapters Ezekiel 13:1 condemn those who speak false prophecy (ch. Ezekiel 13:1) and ig
(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...
1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 4:2; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:10;...
Thy prophets — Thy prophets, not mine. Like the foxes — Hungry, and ravening, crafty, and guileful. In the deserts — Where want makes them more eager after their prey....