Ran - that is, hurried to take upon themselves the responsibilities of the prophetic office.

Yet they ran. —The image is that of messengers who rush eagerly, as from the king’s council-chamber, on their self-appointed missi…

False prophets are futile and vain, no good result comes from all their teaching; but oh! if they had known the Word of the Lord, if they had reall…

The Prophet again warns the Jews not to be perverted by the flatteries of false teachers, and not to disregard the threats of God. We have already …

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. They might be sent of men, and be encouraged by them; but they were not sen…

The false prophets of Samaria had deceived the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem guilty of more h…

1. Here, the prophet speaks of the various methods of deception.

First, he exposes them. Second, he addresses them summarily with the …