Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 13:6
And they have made others ... - Rather, “and they hope for the confirmation of their word.” They come to believe their own lies.
And they have made others ... - Rather, “and they hope for the confirmation of their word.” They come to believe their own lies.
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...
Their prophecies are false: they are self-deceived 6. _have made_others _to hope_ Rather: THEY HAVE HOPED FOR THE CONFIRMATION of the word. The usual sense of the verb is to "hope;" only in a single p...
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...
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...
They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. THEY HAVE MADE OTHERS TO HOP...
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...
חָ֤זוּ שָׁוְא֙ וְ קֶ֣סֶם כָּזָ֔ב הָ אֹֽמְרִים
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...
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...
Here again he pronounces generally that those false prophets were vain, and this assertion depends upon the principle that they had spoken from their own heart or spirit, for nothing false or vain can...
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...
THEY HAVE SEEN VANITY, AND LYING DIVINATION,.... The visions the false prophets pretended to see were nothing but the fruit of their own fancies and imaginations, and had nothing real in them; and wha...
They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made [others] to hope that they would confirm the word. Ver. 6. _They have seen vani...
_They have seen vanity and lying divinations_ They have uttered false prophecies concerning peace and prosperity, pretending to have seen that which they did not see, and producing that as a divine tr...
They have seen vanity, nothingness, empty imaginations, and LYING DIVINATION, so that they even believed their own lies, SAYING, THE LORD SAITH, insisting that their message was the inspired Word of G...
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...
THEY HAVE SEEN; they pretend to have seen, but still they see nothing, as EZEKIEL 13:2. The prophet speaks as if indeed they had seen, but the very censure of the things they said they saw clears it,...
Ezekiel 13:6 envisioned H2372 (H8804) futility H7723 false H3577 divination H7081 saying H559 (H8802) says H3068 LORD
“They have seen vanity and lying divination who say, ‘the oracle of Yahweh', and Yahweh has not sent them. And they have made men hope that the word would be confirmed.” The false prophets have given...
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 13:1 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 Kings 22:27; 1 Kings 22:37; 1 Kings 22:6; 2 Peter 2:18;...
Vanity — Things that have no foundation....