Ezekiel 13:17

set thy face against, &c. This required Divine courage on the part of Ezekiel. Compare Ezekiel 14:8; Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 29:2. Eze 29:38, Ezekiel 29:2.

their own heart. Compare verses: Ezekiel 13:2; Ezekiel 13:3 and. similar transition from men to women in Isaiah 3:16; Isaiah 3:17.

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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 sometime...
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, w...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

WE may gather from this passage that Satan’s lies were not spread among the people so much by men as by women. We know that the gift of prophec...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them, S...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Likewise, thou son of man— The prophet is here ordered to direct his discourse against the female pretenders to prophesy, as had been done in the f...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against the...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They have made others to hope. — Omit the word “others,” which is not in the original, and translate, “The Lord hath not sent them that they should...
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 elsewh...
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...
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 Chu...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people ,.... The false prophetesses; for as there were women in some ages, who...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Likewise, set thy face against the daughters of thy people Direct thy discourse against the female pretenders to prophecy. God sometimes bestowed t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Guilt of the False Prophetesses. B. C. 593....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Now turn thyself and discourse against the prophetesses, fear them not: see the phrase, Ezekiel 4:3 . Some would have the prophet's words to be in...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart, and you prophesy against them. And say...
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...
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 Jerusa...
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, intende...
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, lik...
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 Ez...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, the very expression signifying that these false prophetesses had cut the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Against the False Prophetesses
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 22:14 ; 2 Peter 2:1 ; Ezekiel 13:2 ; Ezekiel 20:46 ; Ezekiel 21:2 ; Ezekiel 4:3 ; Isaiah 3:16-26 ; Isaiah 4:4 ; Judges 4:4 ; Luke 2...

¹⁷ Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 13:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 13:17