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For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
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Truth's Final Victory
Commentators explain that God would end false prophecy not by silencing the prophets, but by allowing events to prove them wrong. The coming judgment and exile would so thoroughly discredit the 'flattering' predictions of peace that no one would listen to them anymore. Reality would become the ultimate fact-checker, exposing their lies.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
As in Ezekiel 7, the nearness of the judgment is foretold.
Ezekiel 12:22.
The land of Israel generally refers to t…
19th Century
Anglican
These verses contain two distinct messages from the Lord (Ezekiel 12:21–28), both designed to meet the objection that warning prophecie…
16th Century
Protestant
Here God deprives the Jews of another source of confidence, for they flattered themselves and had their own instigators, that is, false Prophets, w…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For there shall be no more any vain vision Or prophecy; such as the false prophets had given out, that the people sh…
From that forbearance of God, which should have led them to repent, the Jews hardened themselves in sin. It will not serve as an excuse for speakin…
