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Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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God Exposes Falsehood
Commentators explain that God's judgment on the false prophetesses was not about their repentance, but their public disgrace. Their ability to 'see visions' would end because unfolding events would so thoroughly contradict their predictions that their lies would be exposed for all to see. This is a promise that God ultimately vindicates His truth and strips power from those who mislead His people.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A rebuke to the false prophetesses, and a declaration that God will confound them and deliver their victims from their snares. Women were sometimes…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall see no more vanity. —As so often, the judgment is expressed in the same form as the Sin. These false prophetess…
16th Century
Protestant
He explains in other words what we saw yesterday, but the repetition adds to the weight of the matter. The Prophet therefore shows that he had a ju…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore you shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations , &c.] They should not be suffered any longer to impo…
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…
