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Text -- Ezekiel 13:6 (NET)

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13:6 They see delusion and their omens are a lie. They say, “the Lord declares,” though the Lord has not sent them; yet they expect their word to be confirmed.
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Wesley: Eze 13:6 - -- Things that have no foundation.

Things that have no foundation.

JFB: Eze 13:6 - -- Rather, "they hoped" to confirm (that is, 'make good') their word, by the event corresponding to their prophecy. The Hebrew requires this [HAVERNICK]....

Rather, "they hoped" to confirm (that is, 'make good') their word, by the event corresponding to their prophecy. The Hebrew requires this [HAVERNICK]. Also the parallel clause, "they have seen vanity," implies that they believed their own lie (2Th 2:11). Subjective revelation is false unless it rests on the objective.

Calvin: Eze 13:6 - -- Here again he pronounces generally that those false prophets were vain, and this assertion depends upon the principle that they had spoken from their...

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 proceed from God. It follows, therefore, that they are here condemned of vanity and lying, because they dared falsely to use the name of God when they uttered nothing but their own dreams. He now confirms what we saw in the last verse, when he says, they hoped to establish their word. Hence they puffed up the people with vain hope, when they said that God would not be so severe as to exact continual punishment of the holy and elect nation. True prophets also often recall sinners to the mercy of God, and magnify it so, that those who wrestle with despair may not doubt God’s long-suffering, since he is said to be slow to anger, and inclined to reconciliation; and his pity endures for a life, while his anger passes away in a moment. (Num 14:18; Psa 103:8, and Psa 30:5.) True prophets indeed act thus; but they join two members which must not be separated, otherwise God himself would be, as it were, dissipated. 6 Hence, when true prophets exhort sinners to hope and predict God’s freeness to pardon, they likewise discourse about penitence; they do not indulge sinners, but rouse them, nay, wound them sharply with a sense of God’s anger, so as in some way to stir them up, since God’s mercy is set before us for that end, that by it we may seek life. Hence we must be dead in ourselves; but false prophets sever between the two, and divide God, as it were, in half, since they speak only of his freeness to forgive, and declare his clemency to be set before all, while they are profoundly silent about repentance. Now, therefore, we see why the Prophet here reproves these traitors 7 who abused the name of God, since they made the people to hope. Without hope, indeed, the sinner could not be animated to seek God: but they promised peace, as he will say directly, when there was no peace. Therefore let us proceed with the exposition.

TSK: Eze 13:6 - -- have seen : Eze 13:23, Eze 12:23, Eze 12:24, Eze 22:28; Lam 2:14; 2Pe 2:18 lying : Eze 21:23, Eze 21:29; Jer 14:14, Jer 29:8; Zec 10:2 saying : Eze 13...

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Barnes: Eze 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.

Poole: Eze 13:6 - -- They have seen they pretend to have seen, but still they see nothing, as Eze 13:2 . The prophet speaks as if indeed they had seen, but the very censu...

They have seen they pretend to have seen, but still they see nothing, as Eze 13:2 . The prophet speaks as if indeed they had seen, but the very censure of the things they said they saw clears it, that all was but pretence.

Vanity and lying divination things that have no ground or foundation, and which will never be, and are therefore called vanity and lying divinations.

The Lord saith foretelleth and promiseth.

Hath not sent them never revealed any such thing to them, or bade them tell the Jews any such thing.

They have made others by their pretences and arguments they have wheedled some into a belief of their word, and into a hope of that they promise; and so the credulous Jew is undone by his prophet, who tells him all is well, and needs no alteration, and all will be well, and they need fear no desolation.

Gill: Eze 13:6 - -- 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 i...

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 what they divined or foretold should be were all lies, and never came to pass, and never would:

saying the Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them; they came to the people with a lie in their mouths, giving out that the Lord spoke by them; when they had no mission from him; nor any commission to say what they did; or any warrant from him for their prophecies:

and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word; or, "that the word would be confirmed" e; that what was said by them would have its accomplishment; and that their prophecies would be fulfilled. By their solemn way of speaking; by the use they made of the name of the Lord; by the strong assurances they gave, and by their frequent repetition of their predictions, the people were brought to hope and believe that the event would answer to what they said; wherefore, instead of bringing them to a sense of their sins, and repentance for them, whereby the judgments of God would have been prevented, they hardened them in them, and hastened their ruin.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 13:6 Or “confirmed”; NIV “to be fulfilled”; TEV “to come true.”

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Eze 13:1-23 - --1 The reproof of lying prophets,10 and their untempered morter.17 Of prophetesses and their pillows.

MHCC: Eze 13:1-9 - --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...

Matthew Henry: Eze 13:1-9 - -- The false prophets, who are here prophesied against, were some of them at Jerusalem (Jer 23:14): I have seen in the prophets at Jerusalem a horribl...

Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 13:1-7 - -- Against the False Prophets Their conduct. - Eze 13:1. And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Eze 13:2. Son of man, prophesy against the prop...

Constable: Eze 4:1--24:27 - --II. Oracles of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem for sin chs. 4-24 This section of the book contains prophecies th...

Constable: Eze 12:1--19:14 - --C. Yahweh's reply to the invalid hopes of the Israelites chs. 12-19 "The exiles had not grasped the seri...

Constable: Eze 13:1-23 - --3. The condemnation of contemporary false prophets ch. 13 This chapter follows quite naturally f...

Constable: Eze 13:1-7 - --The characteristics of these prophets 13:1-7 13:1-3 The Lord gave Ezekiel a message for the prophets who were devising messages for the Jews from thei...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The name Ezekiel means "(whom) God will strengthen" [GESENIUS]; or, "God will prevail" [ROSENMULLER]. His father was Buzi (Eze 1:3), a priest, and he ...

JFB: Ezekiel (Outline) EZEKIEL'S VISION BY THE CHEBAR. FOUR CHERUBIM AND WHEELS. (Eze. 1:1-28) EZEKIEL'S COMMISSION. (Eze 2:1-10) EZEKIEL EATS THE ROLL. IS COMMISSIONED TO ...

TSK: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The character of Ezekiel, as a Writer and Poet, is thus admirably drawn by the masterly hand of Bishop Lowth: " Ezekiel is much inferior to Jeremiah ...

TSK: Ezekiel 13 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Eze 13:1, The reproof of lying prophets, Eze 13:10. and their untempered morter; Eze 13:17, Of prophetesses and their pillows.

Poole: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL THE ARGUMENT EZEKIEL was by descent a priest, and by commission a prophet, and received it from heaven, as will appea...

Poole: Ezekiel 13 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 13 False prophets reproved, and their daubing with untempered mortar, Eze 13:1-16 . The prophetesses also reproved with their impostures un...

MHCC: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Ezekiel was one of the priests; he was carried captive to Chaldea with Jehoiachin. All his prophecies appear to have been delivered in that country, a...

MHCC: Ezekiel 13 (Chapter Introduction) (Eze 13:1-9) Heavy judgments against lying prophets. (Eze 13:10-16) The insufficiency of their work. (Eze 13:17-23) Woes against false prophetesses.

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel When we entered upon the writings of the prophets, which speak of the ...

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel 13 (Chapter Introduction) Mention had been made, in the chapter before, of the vain visions and flattering divinations with which the people of Israel suffered themselves to...

Constable: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Writer The title of this book comes from its writer, Ezekiel, t...

Constable: Ezekiel (Outline) Outline I. Ezekiel's calling and commission chs. 1-3 A. The vision of God's glory ch. 1 ...

Constable: Ezekiel Ezekiel Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter R. Exile and Restoration. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968. ...

Haydock: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL. INTRODUCTION. Ezechiel, whose name signifies the strength of God, was of the priestly race, and of the number of t...

Gill: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL This book is rightly placed after Jeremiah; since Ezekiel was among the captives in Chaldea, when prophesied; whereas Jerem...

Gill: Ezekiel 13 (Chapter Introduction) 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 orde...

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