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[to wit], the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.
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The Danger of False Hope
Commentators explain that the false prophets offered comforting messages of peace and victory. However, these hopes were not based on God's word but were like a poorly built, daubed wall that would inevitably collapse. This serves as a powerful warning that any hope not grounded in God's true revelation is a dangerous deception.
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Ezekiel
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19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS D: ON CHAPTER 13:6, 7, AND 17.
In these verses a broad and crucial distinction is made between the self-imagined vi…
16th Century
Protestant
He now concludes this discourse and shows what he had until now intended by a building badly cemented, by using sand without lime. The prophets…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[To wit], the prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem This explains who are meant by those that daubed with…
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Presbyterian
One false prophet built the wall, set up the notion that Jerusalem should be victorious, and made himself acceptable by it. Others made the matter …
