Ezekiel:13

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* Verse 1-9 - Where God gives a warrant to do any thing , he gives wisdom . What they delivered was not what they had seen or heard , as that is which the ministers of Christ deliver . They were not praying prophets , had no intercourse with Heaven ; they contrived how to please people , not how to do them good ; they stood not against sin . They flattered people into vain hopes . Such widen the breach , by causing men to think themselves deserving of eternal life , when the wrath of God abides upon them . * Verse 10-16 - 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 yet more plausible and promising ; they daubed the wall which the first had built ; but they would , ere long , be undeceived when their work was beaten down by the storm of God 's just wrath ; when the Chaldean army desolated the land . Hopes of peace and happiness , not warranted by the word of God , will cheat men ; like a wall well daubed , but ill built . * Verse 17-23 - It is ill with those who had rather hear pleasing lies than unpleasing truths . The false prophetesses tried to make people secure , signified by laying them at ease , and to make them proud , signified by the finery laid on their heads . They shall be confounded in their attempts , and God 's people shall be delivered out of their hands . It behoves Christians to keep close to the word of God , and in every thing to seek the teaching of the Holy Spirit . Let us so trust the promises of God as to keep his commandments . **** Matthew Henry 's Commentary ****

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