Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Ezekiel 13:20
to make them fly:
Or, into gardens
to make them fly:
Or, into gardens
Verse Ezekiel 13:20. _THE SOULS THAT YE HUNT TO MAKE_ THEM _FLY._] לפרחות _lephorechoth_, into the _flower gardens_, says _Parkhurst_. These false prophetesses decoyed men into these gardens, where pr...
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. FLY. escape. I WILL TEAR. So that these wraps could be torn away....
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...
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the soul...
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...
לָכֵ֞ן כֹּה ־אָמַ֣ר ׀ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה הִנְנִ֤י...
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...
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against your [magic] charms, with which ye there hunt the (m) souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go...
_Catch. Hebrew also, "hunt the souls to make them into gardens, (Haydock) or flourishing." Septuagint, "you gather souls there." The original seems to be incorrect, ver. 18._...
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...
Here Ezekiel begins to threaten those women with what would shortly happen, namely, that God would not only render them contemptible, but also ridiculous, before the whole people, that their delusions...
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...
WHEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST YOUR PILLOWS,.... Not only had an abhorrence of them, but was determined to destroy them, detect their fallacies, and expose the folly of such...
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the...
_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...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETESSES...
Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against your pillows wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, that is, Jehovah, the God of the covenant, intended to take away the covers wh...
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...
I AM AGAINST (the same phrase EZEKIEL 13:8) YOUR PILLOWS; the rite, and its signification too. THERE HUNT THE SOULS; either at Jerusalem, or wherever you give out answers. TO MAKE THEM FLY: in this se...
Ezekiel 13:20 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 charms H3704 you H859 hunt H6679 (H8781) souls...
“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...
2 Timothy 3:8; 2 Timothy 3:9; Ezekiel 13:15; Ezekiel 13:16; Ezekiel
There — At Jerusalem. Grow — You promise a flourishing, growing, state to all enquirers; and this is the net with which you hunt souls. Tear them — With violence, and suddenness....