A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes…

Likewise, you son of man, set your face ... —This passage deals with a class of people, the false prophetesses, who are not mentio…

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 prophecy is…

And say, thus says the Lord God, woe to the [women] who sew
pillows to all armholes
O…

It is a bad state for those who would rather hear pleasing lies than unpleasing truths. The false prophetesses tried to make people feel secure, si…