UHezekile 13:23

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

23 ngako oko aniyi kuyibona into ekhohlakeleyo ningabi savumisa nokuvumisa; ngokuba ndiya kubahlangula abantu bam esandleni senu; nazi ukuba ndinguYehova.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye shall see: Ezekiel 13:6-16, Ezekiel 12:24, Deuteronomy 18:20, Micah 3:6, Zechariah 13:3, 2 Timothy 3:9

for I: Ezekiel 13:21, Ezekiel 34:10, Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22, 1 Corinthians 11:19, Jude 1:24, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 12:11, Revelation 13:5, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 15:2

and ye: Ezekiel 13:9, Ezekiel 13:21, Ezekiel 14:8, Ezekiel 15:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:1 - a prophet Jeremiah 14:14 - divination Jeremiah 20:6 - thy friends Jeremiah 23:14 - strengthen Jeremiah 23:16 - a vision Jeremiah 27:14 - they Jeremiah 29:31 - Because Ezekiel 6:7 - and ye Ezekiel 11:10 - and ye Ezekiel 13:14 - and ye shall know Ezekiel 17:21 - shall know Ezekiel 21:29 - they see Ezekiel 22:28 - seeing Zechariah 10:2 - the diviners Zechariah 13:2 - cause

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations,.... They should not be suffered any longer to impose upon the people; and they should be so sufficiently exposed, that the people would not give heed to their vain visions and lying divinations any more; and no gain coming to them hereby, they would not be disposed to make pretensions to them, as they had done: or the sense is, that they should perish in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and so they and their false prophecies would cease together:

for I will deliver my people out of your hand, and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord; see Ezekiel 13:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them, and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes inspired by the true God, as were Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, and Huldah; but an order of prophetesses was unknown among the people of God, and the existence of such a class in the last days of the kings of Judah was a fresh instance of declension into pagan usages.

Ezekiel 13:18-21. Render thus: “Woe to the women that” put charms on every finger-joint, that set veils upon heads of every height to ensnare souls. “Will ye” ensnare “the souls of my people,” and keep your own souls alive, and will ye profane my name “among my people for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to” keep alive “the souls that should not live, by lying to my people” who listen to “a lie? Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold” I will come upon your charms, where ye are ensnaring the souls like birds; “and I will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go” free, “even the souls” which ye are ensnaring like birds. “Your” veils “also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be” ensnared; “and ye shall know that I am the Lord.”

Most ancient interpreters and many modern interpreters have understood the “pillows” (or charms) and “kerchiefs” (or veils), as appliances to which the sorcerers had resort in order to attract notice. The veil was a conspicuous ornament in the east - women whatever their “stature” (or, height) putting them on - and it was worn by magicians in order to seem more mysterious and awful.

Ezekiel 13:19

Pollute me - Profane Me by your false words, which ye pretend to be from Me.

Handfuls of barley - Such were the gifts with which men used to approach a seer (compare 1 Samuel 9:7-8; 1 Kings 14:3).

Ezekiel 13:20

To make them fly - If the marginal reading “into gardens” be adopted, it must mean, Ye entice men to the gardens or groves, where magical arts are practiced. That groves were used for this purpose and for idolatrous rites is notorious.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 13:23. Ye shall see no more vanity — They pretended visions; but they were empty of reality.

Nor divine divinations — As God would not speak to them, they employed demons. Where God is not, because of the iniquity of the people, the devil is, to strengthen and support that iniquity. And if he cannot have his priests, he will have his priestesses; and these will have a Church like themselves, full of lying doctrines, and bad works.