Ezekiel 13:4

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, reviviscunt. Heretics are such, and false prophets; Arius, for instance.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes (b) in the deserts. (b) Watching to destroy the vineyard.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 13. Denunciation of the False Prophets ( Ezekiel 13:1-16 ) and Prophetesses ( Ezekiel 13:17-23 ). Besides the delay of the doom which Ezeki...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

foxes . jackals. deserts . ruins.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 fr...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 pr...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Like the foxes in the deserts— Or, as the apostle styles them, 2 Corinthians 11:13 deceitful workers, who craftily insinuate false doctrines in...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes - which cunningly "spoil the vines" ( Son...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Like the foxes in the deserts. — The comparison is sufficiently close if it is considered as extending only to these mischievous men living unconce...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than...
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 is somewhat very striking and awful in this scripture. One should hardly conceive it possible that any men, much less a multitude of men, shoul...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

O Israel; a pathetical exclamation to awake Israel, both the dwellers at Jerusalem and those at Babylon. Thy prophets, not mine, as Ezekiel 13:...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

(4.) OF FALSE PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSES (Chap. 13) Condemnation of the Prophets ( Ezekiel 13:1-16 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The declaration in Ezekiel...
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 Biblical Illustrator

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 prover...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Against the False Prophets
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts, in the ruins, for the self-appointed leaders and teachers of the people were wily destroyer...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thy prophets — Thy prophets, not mine. Like the foxes — Hungry, and ravening, crafty, and guileful. In the deserts — Where want makes them more eag...

⁴ O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 13:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 13:4