Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Ezekiel
Book: Ezekiel
Chapter: 13
Overview:
Heavy judgments against lying prophets.
(1-9) The
insufficiency of their work.
(10-16) Woes against false
prophetesses.
(17-23)
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
prophets, had
No intercourse with
Heaven; they contrived how to
please people, not how to do them good; they stood not against
Sin. They flattered people into vain hopes. Such widen the
Breach,
By causing men to think themselves deserving of eternal
Life, when the wrath of
God abides upon them.
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.
17-23 It is ill with those who had rather hear pleasing lies
than unpleasing truths. The false prophetesses tried to make
people secure, signified
By laying them at ease, and to make
them proud, signified
By the finery laid
On their heads. They
shall be confounded in their attempts, and
God's people shall be
delivered out of their hands. It behooves Christians to keep
close to the
Word of God, and in every thing to seek the
teaching of the Holy
Spirit. Let us
So trust the promises of
God
as to keep his
Commandments.