geneva - Ezekiel:13-15

geneva@Ezekiel:13:1 @ And ye word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:13:2 @ Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou to them that prophesy out of their (note:)After their own fantasy and not as having the revelation of the Lord, (Jer_23:16).(:note) own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

geneva@Ezekiel:13:3 @ Thus sayth the Lorde God, Woe vnto the foolish Prophets that followe their owne spirit, and haue seene nothing.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:4 @ O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes (note:)Watching to destroy the vineyard.(:note) in the deserts.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:5 @

geneva@Ezekiel:13:6 @ They haue seene vanitie, and lying diuination, saying, The Lord sayth it, and the Lorde hath not sent them: & they haue made others to hope that they would cofirme the word of their prophecie.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:7 @ Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, though (note:)You promised peace to this people and now you see their destruction, so that it is revealed that you are false prophets.(:note) ye say, The LORD saith [it]; although I have not spoken?

geneva@Ezekiel:13:8 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, Because ye haue spoken vanytie & haue seene lyes, therefore beholde, I am agaynst you, sayth the Lorde God,

geneva@Ezekiel:13:9 @ And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the (note:)That is in the book of life, in which the true Israelites are written.(:note) writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:10 @ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, (note:){{See Jer_6:14}}(:note) Peace; and [there was] no peace; and one built up a While the true prophets prophesied the destruction of the city to bring the people to repentance, the false prophets spoke the contrary, and flattered them in their vanities, so that what one false prophet said (which is here called the building of the wall) another false prophet would affirm, though he had neither opportunity nor good ground to hear him. wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered [mortar]:

geneva@Ezekiel:13:11 @ Say vnto them which daube it with vntempered morter, that it shall fall: for there shall come a great showre, and I wil sende haylestones, which shall cause it to fall, and a stormie winde shall breake it.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:12 @ Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not bee sayd vnto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye haue daubed it?

geneva@Ezekiel:13:13 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will cause a stormie winde to breake foorth in my wrath, & a great showre shall bee in mine anger, & hailestones in mine indignation to consume it.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:14 @ So I wil destroy the wall that ye haue daubed with vntempered morter, and bring it downe to the ground, so that the fundation thereof shalbe discouered, and it shall fal, and ye shalbe consumed in the middes thereof, and ye shall know, that I am the Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:15 @ Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with (note:)By which is meant whatever man of himself sets forth under the authority of God's word.(:note) untempered [mortar], and will say to you, The wall [is] no [more], neither they that daubed it;

geneva@Ezekiel:13:16 @ To wit, the Prophets of Israel, which prophesie vpon Ierusalem, and see visions of peace for it, and there is no peace, sayth the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:17 @ Likewise thou sonne of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesie out of their owne heart: and prophesie thou against them, and say,

geneva@Ezekiel:13:18 @ And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the [women] that sew (note:)These superstitious women for money would prophecy and tell every man his fortune giving them pillows to lean on, and kerchiefs to cover their heads, to the intent they might the more allure them and bewitch them.(:note) [magic] charms upon all wrists, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive [that come] to you?

geneva@Ezekiel:13:19 @ And will ye profane me among my people for handfuls of (note:)Will you make my word serve your bellies?(:note) barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and These sorcerers made the people believe that they could preserve life or destroy it and that it would come to everyone according as they prophesied. to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?

geneva@Ezekiel:13:20 @ Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against your [magic] charms, with which ye there hunt the (note:)That is, to cause them to perish, and that they should depart from the body.(:note) souls to make [them] fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, [even] the souls that ye hunt to make [them] fly.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:21 @ Your vailes also will I teare, and deliuer my people out of your hande, and they shalbe no more in your hands to be hunted, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

geneva@Ezekiel:13:22 @ Because with lies ye have made the heart of the (note:)By threatening them that were godly, and upholding the wicked.(:note) righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

geneva@Ezekiel:13:23 @ Therefore ye shal see no more vanitie, nor diuine diuinatios: for I wil deliuer my people out of your hand, & ye shall know that I am ye Lord.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:1 @ Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and (note:)He shows the hypocrisy of the idolaters, who will pretend to hear the prophets of God, though in their hearts they follow nothing less than their admonitions and also how by one means or another God discovers them.(:note) sat before me.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:2 @ And the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:3 @ Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their (note:)They are not only idolaters in heart, but also worship their filthy idols openly which lead them in blindness, and cause them to stumble, so that he will not hear them when they call to him. {{See Isa_1:15}}(:note) heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

geneva@Ezekiel:14:4 @ Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the (note:)To inquire of things which the Lord has appointed to come to pass.(:note) prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude As his abomination has deserved: that is, he will be led with lies according as he delighted in it, (2Th_2:10). of his idols;

geneva@Ezekiel:14:5 @ That (note:)That is, convince them by their own conscience.(:note) I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:6 @ Therfore say vnto the house of Israel, Thus sayth the Lord God, Returne, and withdraw your selues, and turne your faces from your idoles, and turne your faces from all your abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:7 @ For euery one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that soiourneth in Israel, which departeth from mee, and setteth vp his idoles in his heart, and putteth the stumbling blocke of his iniquitie before his face, and commeth to a Prophet, for to inquire of him for me, I the Lord will answere him for my selfe,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:8 @ And I will set my face against that man, and will make him an example and prouerbe, and I will cut him off from the middes of my people, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:9 @ And if the prophet be (note:)The prophet declares that God for man's ingratitude raises up false prophets to seduce them that delight in lies rather than in the truth of God, and thus he punishes sin with sin, (1Ki_22:20, 1Ki_22:22) and destroys those prophets as well as the people.(:note) deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:10 @ And they shall beare their punishment: the punishment of the Prophet shall bee euen as the punishment of him that asketh,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:11 @ That the house of (note:)Thus God's judgments against the wicked are admonitions to the godly to cleave to the Lord and not to defile themselves with the same abominations.(:note) Israel may no more go astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:12 @ The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:13 @ Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, (note:)Read (Eze_4:16, Eze_5:17; Isa_3:1).(:note) and will break the staff of its bread, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

geneva@Ezekiel:14:14 @ Though these three men, (note:)Though Noah and Job were now alive, which in their time were most godly men (for at this time Daniel was in captivity with Ezekiel) and so these three together would pray for this wicked people, yet I would not hear them, read (Jer_15:1).(:note) Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver their own souls only by their Meaning, that a very few (which he calls the remnant, (Eze_14:22)) would escape these plagues, whom God has sanctified and made righteous, so that this righteousness is a sign that they are the Church of God, whom he would preserve for his own sake. righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:15 @ If I bring noysome beastes into the lande and they spoyle it, so that it bee desolate, that no man may passe through, because of beastes,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:16 @ Though these three men were in the mids thereof, As I liue, sayth the Lord God, they shall saue neither sonnes nor daughters: they onely shalbe deliuered, but the land shall be waste.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:17 @ Or if I bring a sworde vpon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:18 @ Though these three men were in the mids thereof, As I liue, sayth the Lorde God, they shal deliuer neither sonnes nor daughters, but they onely shall be deliuered themselues.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:19 @ Or if I send a pestilence into this land, and powre out my wrath vpon it in blood, to destroy out of it man and beast,

geneva@Ezekiel:14:20 @ And though Noah, Daniel and Iob were in the middes of it, As I liue, sayth the Lorde God, they shal deliuer neither sonne nor daughter: they shall but deliuer their owne soules by their righteousnes.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:21 @ For thus saith the Lord God, Howe much more when I sende my foure sore iudgements vpon Ierusalem, euen the sworde, and famine, and the noysome beast & pestilence, to destroy man and beast out of it?

geneva@Ezekiel:14:22 @ Yet, behold, in it shall be left a (note:){{See Eze_5:3}}(:note) remnant that shall be brought forth, [both] sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, [even] concerning all that I have brought upon it.

geneva@Ezekiel:14:23 @ And they shal comfort you, when yee see their way and their enterprises: & ye shal know, that I haue not done without cause all that I haue done in it, saith the Lorde God.

geneva@Ezekiel:15:1 @ And ye word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:15:2 @ Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, [or than] a branch which is among the (note:)Which brings forth no fruit, no more than the other trees of the forest do: meaning that if Jerusalem, which bore the name of his Church, did not bring forth fruit it would be utterly destroyed.(:note) trees of the forest?

geneva@Ezekiel:15:3 @ Shall wood bee taken thereof to doe any worke? or wil men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

geneva@Ezekiel:15:4 @ Behold, it is cast in the fire to be consumed: the fire consumeth both the endes of it, and the middes of it is burnt. Is it meete for any worke?

geneva@Ezekiel:15:5 @ Behold, when it was whole, it was meete for no worke: how much lesse shall it bee meete for any worke, when the fire hath consumed it, and it is burnt?

geneva@Ezekiel:15:6 @ Therefore thus sayth the Lorde God, As the vine tree, that is among the trees of the forest, which I haue giuen to the fire to be consumed, so will I giue the inhabitants of Ierusalem.

geneva@Ezekiel:15:7 @ And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from [one] (note:)Though they escape one danger, yet another will take them.(:note) fire, and [another] fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I set my face against them.

geneva@Ezekiel:15:8 @ And when I make the lande waste, because they haue greatly offended, saith the Lord God.

geneva@Ezekiel:16:1 @ Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,