Ezekiel 13:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. ”

• Ezekiel 13:21 - Albert 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, Debora...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The False Prophetesses. But women, as well as men, contributed, and just as fatally, to the popular delusion. The false prophets were public men, who exercised an influence on politics; the false p...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  your . Feminine suffix.

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  What the Prophet had said concerning the pillows he now pronounces of the veils, by which they were accustomed to cover either their own heads, or those of the persons who consulted them. The c...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Your kerchiefs - Nets, or amulets...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. They shall be no more in yo...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (17-23) Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face... — This passage deals with a class of people the false prophetesses, who are not mentioned elsewhere in the Old Testament. True prophetesses, as in...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The next movement in the prophesying was a denunciation of false prophets and prophetesses. The prophets were not inspired by the Spirit of God, but followed their own spirit. In so doing they had, l...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  There were, it should seem, in Ezekiel's days, women also that prophesied, and those prophesied falsely. We read of one Anna, a prophetess in the Church, just at the birth of Christ; and the promise...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Your kerchiefs also will one tear ,.... From their heads; discover their tricks, and expose them to the contempt of the people, and destroy both them and their works: and deliver my people out of...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 21. And they shall be n...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye hunt the souls , &c. To make them run into those snares and seductions that you have laid for them, Ezekiel 13:18 . The metaphor is continued fro...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Guilt of the False Prophetesses. B. C. 593.       17 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Kerchiefs: see Ezekiel 13:18 . My people; God owns them, at least some among them; though all were not his, yet he had a people among them. Your hand; power of their seductions.

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The False Prophetesses ( Ezekiel 13:17-23 ). We know from Miriam ( Exodus 15:20 ), Deborah ( Judges 4:4 ) and Huldah ( 2 Kings 22:14 ) that there were recognised prophetesses in Israel (see also...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CONDEMNATION OF THE PROPHETESSES ( Ezekiel 13:17-23 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—A disposition to prophecy was in the air; so women as well as men, in Jerusalem and among the exiles, were influenced by it. N...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Ezekiel 13:17-23 I. The sewing of the pillows under the arms or elbows of those who came to consult the prophetesses was a symbolical act, intended to convey an answer by way of parable. The proph...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 13:3 . Woe to the foolish prophets oh Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. The vineyards in rough and rocky places, like our bramble, produced the most delicious grapes....

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ezekiel 13:1 Another interval follows, and then a fresh and fuller burst of inspiration, manifestly in close connection with Ezekiel 12:21-26 , and to be read in combination wit...

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Against the False Prophetesses

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• Ezekiel 13:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 13:9

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