Eze 13:10-16, 22:25-29, Mal 2:8, Mat 15:14 | TSK | STEP | seduced. Peace. and one.These false prophets pretend to be a wall of defence; but their wall is bad, and their morter 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. a wall. or, a slight wall. others.

Ezekiel 13:10-16

seduced.

2Ki 21:9; Pr 12:26; Jer 23:13-15; 1Ti 4:1; 2Ti 3:13; 1Jo 2:26

Peace.

16; Isa 57:21; Jer 4:10; 6:14; 8:11,15; 14:13; 23:17; 28:9; Mal 3:15

and one.These false prophets pretend to be a wall of defence; but their wall is bad, and their morter 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.

a wall. or, a slight wall. others.

22:28; 2Ch 18:12; Isa 30:10; Jer 5:31; Mic 2:11

there shall.It shall wash off this bad morter, sweep away the wall, and level it with the earth. In the East, where the walls are often built with unbaked bricks, desolations of this kind are frequently occasioned by tempestuous rains.

38:22; Job 27:21; Ps 11:6; 18:13,14; 32:6; Isa 25:4; 28:2,15-18

Isa 29:6; 32:19; Na 1:3,7,8; Mt 7:25,27; Lu 6:48,49

Where.

De 32:37; Jud 9:38; 10:14; 2Ki 3:13; Jer 2:28; 29:31,32; 37:19

La 2:14,15

a stormy.

Le 26:28; Isa 30:30; Ps 107:25; 148:8; Jer 23:19; Jon 1:4

and great.

Ex 9:18-29; Ps 18:12,13; 105:32; 148:8; Isa 30:30; Hag 2:17; Re 8:7

Re 11:19; 16:21

the foundation.

Ps 11:3; Mic 1:6; Hab 3:13; Mt 7:26,27; Lu 6:49; 1Co 3:11-15

ye shall be.

Jer 6:15; 8:12; 14:15; 23:15

and ye shall know.

9,21,23; 14:8

The wall.

Ne 4:3; Ps 62:3; Isa 30:13

see visions.

10; Jer 5:31; 6:14; 8:11; 28:1,9-17; 29:31

and there.

Isa 48:22; 57:20,21

Ezekiel 22:25-29

a conspiracy.

13:10-16; 1Ki 22:11-13,23; Jer 5:30,31; 6:13; La 2:14; 4:13

2Pe 2:1-3

like.

27-29; Isa 56:11; Ho 6:9; Mic 3:5-7; Re 13:11,15

ravening.That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.

they have devoured.

13:19; Jer 2:30,34; Mt 23:14; Mr 12:40; Lu 20:47; Re 17:6; 18:13

priests.

1Sa 2:12-17,22; Jer 2:8,26,27; La 4:13; Mic 3:11,12; Zep 3:3,4

Mal 1:6-8; 2:1-3,8

violated. Heb. offered violence to. profaned.

Le 22:2-33; 1Sa 2:15,29

put no.

44:23; Le 10:1-3,10; 11:47; 20:25; Jer 15:19; Hag 2:11-13

hid their.

8; 20:12,13

I am profaned.

36:20; Ro 2:24

princes.

6; 19:3-6; 22:6; 45:9; Isa 1:23; Ho 7:1-7; Mic 3:2,3,9-11; 7:8

Zep 3:3; Jas 2:6,7

to get.

13; Mt 21:13; Jas 5:1-4

prophets.The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.

25; 13:10-16; Isa 30:10; Jer 8:10,11

seeing.

13:22,23; 21:29; Jer 23:25-32; La 2:14; Zep 3:4

Thus saith the Lord.

13:6,7; Jer 23:21; 28:2,15; 29:8,9; 37:19

people.

7; 18:12; Isa 5:7; 10:2; 59:3-7; Jer 5:26-28,31; 6:13; Am 3:10

Mic 2:2; 3:3; Jas 5:4

oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.

7; 22:7; Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 19:33; Ps 94:6; Mt 25:43

wrongfully. Heb. without right.