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Ezekiel 13:5-15

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5 1You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.
6 2They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, 'Declares the LORD,'3when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word.
7 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, 4whenever you have said, 'Declares the LORD,' although I have not spoken?"
8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, 5I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.
9 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, 6nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, 7nor shall they enter the land of Israel. 8And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
10 Precisely because they have misled my people, 9saying, 'Peace,' when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, 10these prophets smear it with whitewash,[a]
11 say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! 11There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out.
12 And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the coating with which you smeared it?'
13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 12I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, 13and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end.
14 And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, 14and you shall know that I am the LORD.
15 Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it,
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Ezekiel 13:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 13

It being said in Eze 12:24; that there should be no more a vain vision, nor a flattering divination; the prophet is ordered to prophesy against the false prophets and prophetesses, Eze 13:1,2,17; the former are described as prophesying out of their own hearts, Eze 13:2; as foolish ones, following their own spirit, and seeing nothing, Eze 13:3; they are compared to foxes in the deserts, Eze 13:4; and are represented as unconcerned to stand in the gap for the people, Eze 13:5; and as seeing vanity and lying divination; wherefore the Lord was against them, Eze 13:6-8; what they are threatened with are, that they should not be in the assembly of God's people; nor written in the writing of the house of Israel; nor enter into the land of Israel, Eze 13:9; the reason of which was, because they seduced the Lord's people, by speaking peace to them when there was none; which is figuratively expressed by building a wall, and daubing it with untempered mortar, Eze 13:10; upon which the wall is threatened to be rent, and caused to fall with a stormy wind; signifying the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldean army; and the false prophets to have the wrath of God poured on them who doubted it, Eze 13:11-16; and then follows the order to the prophet to prophesy against the false prophetesses, and set his face against them, and pronounce woe upon them in the name of the Lord; who are described as prophesying out of their own hearts; sowing pillows to all armholes; and making kerchiefs on the head of all sorts of persons; and which they did for poor small gain, and to the detriment of immortal souls, good and bad, Eze 13:17-19; wherefore the Lord threatens to tear off their pillows and kerchiefs, and deliver his people out of their hands, no more to be hunted by them, Eze 13:20,21; the reason of which was, because they saddened the hearts of the righteous, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, Eze 13:22; and the chapter is concluded with a resolution that they should see no more vanity nor divine divinations; and that the Lord's people should be delivered from them, and they should know that he was the Lord, Eze 13:23.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

  • 1. Ezekiel 22:30; Psalms 106:23; [Psalms 80:12; Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 58:12]
  • 2. ver. 23; Ezekiel 12:24; Ezekiel 21:29; Ezekiel 22:28; Jeremiah 5:31
  • 3. See Jeremiah 14:14
  • 4. Jeremiah 23:21
  • 5. Ezekiel 5:8; Ezekiel 21:3; Ezekiel 26:3; Ezekiel 28:22; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 30:22; Ezekiel 34:10; Ezekiel 35:3; Ezekiel 38:3; Jeremiah 21:13
  • 6. [Ezra 2:59, 62; Nehemiah 7:5; Psalms 69:28; Psalms 87:6]
  • 7. Ezekiel 20:38
  • 8. See Ezekiel 6:7
  • 9. ver. 16; Jeremiah 6:14; Micah 3:5
  • 10. Ezekiel 22:28
  • 11. Ezekiel 38:22; Isaiah 28:2, 17; [Isaiah 30:13]
  • 12. [See ver. 11 above]
  • 13. [See ver. 11 above]
  • 14. See Ezekiel 6:7

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or plaster; also verses 11, 14, 15
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