Eze 13:2
13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that
     prophesy, and say thou to them that prophesy out of their
     {a} own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

     (a) After their own fantasy and not as having the
         revelation of the Lord, @Jer 23:16.

Eze 13:4
13:4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes {b} in the
     deserts.

     (b) Watching to destroy the vineyard.

Eze 13:5
13:5 {c} Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the
     hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the
     day of the LORD.

     (c) He speaks to the governor and true ministers that would
         have resisted them.

Eze 13:7
13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a
     lying divination, though {d} ye say, The LORD saith [it];
     although I have not spoken?

     (d) You promised peace to this people and now you see their
         destruction, so that it is revealed that you are false
         prophets.

Eze 13:9
13:9 And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and
     that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
     people, neither shall they be written in the {e} writing of
     the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land
     of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

     (e) That is in the book of life, in which the true
         Israelites are written.

Eze 13:10
13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying,
      {f} Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a
      {g} wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered
      [mortar]:

      (f) \\Read Geneva "Jer 6:14"\\
      (g) While the true prophets prophesied the destruction of
          the city to bring the people to repentance, the false
          prophets spoke the contrary, and flattered them in
          their vanities, so that what one false prophet said
          (which is here called the building of the wall)
          another false prophet would affirm, though he had
          neither opportunity nor good ground to hear him.

Eze 13:15
13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon
      them that have daubed it with {h} untempered [mortar], and
      will say to you, The wall [is] no [more], neither they
      that daubed it;

      (h) By which is meant whatever man of himself sets forth
          under the authority of God's word.

Eze 13:18
13:18 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that
      sew {i} [magic] charms upon all wrists, and make kerchiefs
      upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt
      the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive
      [that come] to you?

      (i) These superstitious women for money would prophecy and
          tell every man his fortune giving them pillows to lean
          on, and kerchiefs to cover their heads, to the intent
          they might the more allure them and bewitch them.

Eze 13:19
13:19 And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of {k}
      barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that
      should not die, and {l} to save the souls alive that
      should not live, by your lying to my people that hear
      [your] lies?

      (k) Will you make my word serve your bellies?
      (l) These sorcerers made the people believe that they
          could preserve life or destroy it and that it would
          come to everyone according as they prophesied.

Eze 13:20
13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against
      your [magic] charms, with which ye there hunt the {m}
      souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your
      arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye
      hunt to make [them] fly.

      (m) That is, to cause them to perish, and that they should
          depart from the body.

Eze 13:22
13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the {n}
      righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened
      the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from
      his wicked way, by promising him life:

      (n) By threatening them that were godly, and upholding the
          wicked.



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