“ O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. ”
In the deserts - Foxes find a home among ruins etc. Lamentations 5:18 . So the prophets find their profit in the ruin of their country.
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes (b) in the deserts. (b) Watching to destroy the vineyard.
Ezekiel 13. Denunciation of the False Prophets ( Ezekiel 13:1-16 ) and Prophetesses ( Ezekiel 13:17-23 ). Besides the delay of the doom which Ezekiel threatened, the people were deluded by the welc...
foxes . jackals. deserts . ruins.
Hence Ezekiel exposes the snares of the false prophets. The ten tribes had been dispersed, just as if a field or a vineyard had been removed from a habitable neighborhood into desert regions, a...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts - The cunning of the fox in obtaining his prey has been long proverbial. These false prophets...
Like the foxes in the deserts— Or, as the apostle styles them, 2 Corinthians 11:13 deceitful workers, who craftily insinuate false doctrines into unstable minds, and at the same time are hungry...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes - which cunningly "spoil the vines" ( Song of Solomon 2:15 ), Israel being the vineyard ( P...
Like the foxes in the deserts. — The comparison is sufficiently close if it is considered as extending only to these mischievous men living unconcerned among the ruins of their state and country, a...
PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed und...
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...
There is somewhat very striking and awful in this scripture. One should hardly conceive it possible that any men, much less a multitude of men, should ever go forward unsent, and without authority fr...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes of the deserts. The false prophets, as the Targum; these are called Israel's prophets, because received, embraced, and encouraged by them; not the Lord's,...
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ver. 4. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes. ] Cowardly, crafty, cruel, greedy: venatores eludunt, et cum mortuae videntur, revivis...
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel So they called themselves, as if none but they had been worthy of the name of Israel's prophets, who were indeed Israel's deceivers. Say unto th...
The Guilt of False Prophets. B. C. 593. 1 And the word of the L ORD came unto me, sayin...
O Israel; a pathetical exclamation to awake Israel, both the dwellers at Jerusalem and those at Babylon. Thy prophets, not mine, as Ezekiel 13:2 . Like the foxes; hungry and ravening, crafty...
“O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places (ruins). You have not gone up into the gaps, nor made up the fence for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Yahwe...
(4.) OF FALSE PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSES (Chap. 13) Condemnation of the Prophets ( Ezekiel 13:1-16 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The declaration in Ezekiel 12:24 was that unsubstantiated and delusive prop...
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....
Thy prophets are like the foxes in the desert. False prophets like foxes 1. These creatures are lovers of grapes, as we know by a common proverb; and consequently they did much damage in such c...
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...
Against the False Prophets
1 Timothy 4:1 ; 1 Timothy 4:2 ; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:10 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ; Ephesians 4:14 ; Galatians 2:4 ; Micah 2:11 ; Micah 3:5 ; Matthew 7:15 ; Revelation 13...
Thy prophets — Thy prophets, not mine. Like the foxes — Hungry, and ravening, crafty, and guileful. In the deserts — Where want makes them more eager after their prey.