Ezekiel 13:10

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: BECAUSE, EVEN BECAUSE. The repetition heightens the emphasis. THEY HAVE SEDUCED MY PEOPLE, SAYING, PEACE - safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms ; . ONE - literally, this one; said contemptuously, as in . BUILT UP A WALL - rather, a loose wall, (see margin) Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not 'go up into BUILT UP A WALL - rather, a loose wall, (see margin) Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not 'go up into the gaps, or make u...

Here Ezekiel pursues the same metaphor which he had used with a very slight difference, for there is such an agreement that the connection is apparent between the former and the present sentence. He had said that the false prophets did not go up to the breaches, and did not restore the hedges of the house of Israel: we have explained these words thus — teachers who discharge their duties honestly and sincerely are like builders, who, if they see a breach in a wall, instantly and carefully repair it: they are like gardeners who do not allow either a field or a vineyard to be exposed to wild beasts. As, then, he had formerly said that these false prophets did not go up to the breach through their not being affected by the dispersion of the people, but knowingly and willingly betrayed the people’s safety through open and gross perfidy; so also he now says, that they built a wall indeed, but...

10-16 One false prophet built the wall, set up the notion that Jerusalem should be victorious, and made himself acceptable by it. Others made the matter yet more plausible and promising; they daubed the wall which the first had built; but they would, ere long, be undeceived when their work was beaten down by the storm of God's just wrath; when the Chaldean army desolated the land. Hopes of peace and happiness, not warranted by the word of God, will cheat men; like a wall well daubed, but ill built....

Verse Ezekiel 13:10. _ONE BUILT UP A WALL_] A true prophet is as _a wall of_ _defense_ to the people. These false prophets pretend to _be a wall_ _of defense_; but their _wall_ is bad, and their _mortar_ is worse. One gives a _lying vision_, another pledges himself that it is _true_; and the people believe what _they_ say, and trust not in God, nor turn from their sins. The city is about to be besieged; it needs stronger fortifications than what it possesses. The prophet should be as a _brazen wall_ for its defence; and such my prophets would have been had the people received the word from my mouth. But ye have prevented this by your _lying vanities_; and when you have perverted the people, you pretend to raise up a rampart of specious prophecy, full of fine promises, for their _defence_. What one false prophet says, another...

WALL - A partition wall; in Ezekiel 13:12, the word used is the usual word for the outer wall of a house or city. The fall of the partition wall would perhaps involve the fall of the whole house. UNTEMPERED MORTER - Or, whited plaster, employed to patch up a wall, so as to give it an appearance (without the reality) of strength and beauty. Compare Matthew 23:27. In the original there is a play upon a word rendered “folly” in Jeremiah 23:13....

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 Jeremiah 23:1; which, as Jeremiah was in communication with the exiles (Jeremiah 29:1), Ezekiel may probably have seen. There were false prophets and prophetesses among the exiles as well as in Jerusalem, and an utterance is now found for his long pent up indignation. EZEKIEL 13:2,...

BECAUSE, EVEN BECAUSE THEY HAVE SEDUCED MY PEOPLE,.... Who were so by profession; otherwise such who are truly the people of God, though they may be deceived in civil things, yet not in religious matters, at least not totally and finally; in this sense it is impossible to deceive the elect of God; but as false teachers are deceivers, they lie in wait, and use all means to deceive them, and do deceive nominal professors, which is resented by the Lord; and this is given as a reason of their punishment; and which is doubled, as in Leviticus 26:43; to show the heinousness of their sin, and the certainty of their punishment: SAYING, PEACE, AND [THERE WAS] NO PEACE; giving out that peace would be made with the king of Babylon; that the captives would return to their own land, where, with those that were in it, they would enjoy great prosperity; when no such th

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 own mind without having seen.” Such they were and such are the false teachers of this present age 2 Peter 2:1. Of such our Lord warned: “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” Matthew 7:15. Every man who prophesies out of his own heart, who utters his own mind, whose preaching and teaching is not according to the oracles of God, is a false prophet, a blind leader of the blind. Like false prophets in Israel the false teachers in Christendom are the cause of the spiritua

Their doom is therefore sealed. They too will be confounded in the confusion which they have helped to create. They shall be swept off the land of Israel, and their names shall not appear on the registry of the citizens of the restored community, because they said It is well, when it was anything but well. In another picture suggested by the siege, Ezekiel very graphically describes their shallow, criminal methods. Instead of helping to repair the shattered wall of the state, they whitewash it, careless of the fact that the whitewashing of the wall may hide its defects, but will not prevent its destruction (Ex. B, p. 121). But one day he is thinking of the siege and fall of the city the awful storm will come, deluge, and hailstones, and hurl the fair but shoddy wall so violently to the ground that the very foundations will be laid bare. Then when the wall and its silly builders, the stat...

BECAUSE, EVEN BECAUSE. Figure of speech Epizeuxis. App-6. ONE BUILT. be: i.e. one. a false prophet. A WALL. the outer wall of. house. LO. Fig, _Asteriemos._ App-6. OTHERS: i.e. the false prophets. Compare Ezekiel 13:16. DAUBED. coated, UNTEMPERED MORTAR. whitewash. Compare Mat 28:29. Acts 23:3....