Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Ezekiel 13:3
And have seen nothing— Who give their own imaginations for true prophesies, and pretend to have visions, when they never had any.
And have seen nothing— Who give their own imaginations for true prophesies, and pretend to have visions, when they never had any.
THAT FOLLOW ... NOTHING - Better in the margin. A true prophet (like Ezekiel) spoke “the word of the Lord,” and declared what he had seen “in the visions of God.” These pretenders are stigmatized in s...
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...
THE LORD GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. foolish. Hebrew. _nabel._ See note on Proverbs 1:7. THEIR OWN SPIRIT. Not the Holy Spirit. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _roach._ App-9....
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...
_foolish prophets_ The word, not used again by Ezekiel, is rather a moral term, meaning destitute of that wisdom the beginning of which is the fear of the Lord (Psalms 13:1). Jeremiah charges the prop...
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...
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS - through vaunting as though exclusively possessing "wisdo...
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...
FOOLISH PROPHETS. — They were certainly foolish who undertook to forge the name of the Omniscient, as it were, to utterances of their own devising. Folly according to the use of the word in the Old Te...
כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הֹ֖וי עַל ־הַ
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...
_Nothing. Yet would lead the blind, though they are not directed by God._...
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...
_Woe to, the foolish _or disgraceful _prophets _ נבל, _nebel_, signifies “a vile person,” “a castaway,” just as נבלה, _nebeleh_, means “foulness,” “crime,” “wickedness,” although נבל, _nebel_, is ofte...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS,.... The false prophets, as the Targum; who are foolish, as all are who are not sent of God, and furnished by him with wisdom and knowledge, and...
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! Ver. 3. _Woe unto the foolish prophets._] Wise enough they were in their generation - and...
_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...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
Thus saith the Lord God, the sovereign Ruler of the universe, WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS, vaunting themselves with a wisdom which was nothing but foolishness in the sight of God, THAT FOLLOW THEIR...
FOLLOW: _ Heb._ walk after AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING: Or, and things which they have not seen...
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 shall be doubly miserable, suffering with the deceived, and suffering by the enraged, when their lies are detected. FOOLISH PROPHETS; either in a moral sense, i. e. wicked; or in a literal sense,...
Ezekiel 13:3 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Woe H1945 foolish H5036 prophets H5030 follow H1980 ...
THE FALSE PROPHETS (EZEKIEL 13:1). ‘And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, and say to those who prophesy out of their own hearts, ‘You, hear...
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...
_Them that prophesy out of their own hearts._ THE FALSE PROPHET To be a false prophet seems to us, indeed, an enormity. To have the great gift and trust of prophecy, and then to misuse it; to be admi...
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 Corinthians 9:16; 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 3:9; Ezekiel 13:18;...
Foolish prophets — Foolish prophets are not of God's sending: for whom he sends, he either finds fit, or makes fit. Where he gives warrant, he gives wisdom. Their own spirit — Not the spirit of God. S...