Ezekiel 13:23
in Ezekiel 13therefore you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Therefore ye shall no more see false visions, nor divine divinations: and I will deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
KJV
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
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This verse in Ezekiel 13
Commentary
7 notes on this verseYe shall see no more vanity - They pretended visions; but they were empty of reality. Nor divine divinations - As God would not speak to them, they employed demons. Where God is not, because of the iniquity of the people, the devil is, to strengthen and support that iniquity. And if he cannot have his priests, he will have his priestesses; and these will have a Church like themselves, full of lying doctrines, and bad works.
This site's exposition
you have disheartened the righteous with your lies
on Ezekiel 13:22-23
The good are grieved and the wicked emboldened. It ends where it began: “you will no longer see false visions or practice divination. I will deliver My people from your hands.”
This site's exposition
no longer see false visions
Henry expects the deceived to turn their backs on these women once events prove them false. Divination was forbidden to Israel outright at Deuteronomy 18:10. Its end here comes with the people's rescue.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 17 and following) And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own heart, and prophesy against them, and say, 'Thus says the Lord God: Woe to those who sew cushions for all armholes and make veils for the heads of people of every height, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
But it is observable that Israel was never imposed upon by pretenders to prophecy till after they had rejected and abused the true prophets; as, afterwards, they were never deluded by counterfeit messiahs till after they had refused the true Messiah and rejected him.
God's people shall be delivered out of their hands. When they see themselves deluded by them into a false peace and a fool's paradise, and that though they would not leave their sin their sin has left them, and they see no more vanity nor divine divinations, they shall turn their back upon them, shall slight their predictions.
Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations,....
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לָכֵ֗ן | lakhen | <to> therefore | H3651 → | 771 times |
| שָׁ֚וְא | shav | worthlessness | H7723 → | 53 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תֶחֱזֶ֔ינָה | techezeinah | you will see | H2372 → | 55 times |
| וְקֶ֖סֶם | vekesem | and divination | H7081 → | 11 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִקְסַ֣מְנָה | tiksamnah | you will divine | H7080 → | 20 times |
| ע֑וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| וְהִצַּלְתִּ֤י | vehitzalti | and I will deliver | H5337 → | 212 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עַמִּי֙ | ʾami | people my | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| מִיֶּדְכֶ֔ן | miyedkhen | from hand your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ן | vida'ten | and you will know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֥י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
לָכֵ֗ן<to> therefore
lakhenH3651 →771 times
שָׁ֚וְאworthlessness
shavH7723 →53 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תֶחֱזֶ֔ינָהyou will see
techezeinahH2372 →55 times
וְקֶ֖סֶםand divination
vekesemH7081 →11 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
תִקְסַ֣מְנָהyou will divine
tiksamnahH7080 →20 times
ע֑וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
וְהִצַּלְתִּ֤יand I will deliver
vehitzaltiH5337 →212 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
עַמִּי֙people my
ʾamiH5971 →1873 times
מִיֶּדְכֶ֔ןfrom hand your
miyedkhenH3027 →1618 times
וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ןand you will know
vida'tenH3045 →945 times
כִּֽי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֥יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָֽה׃[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
it leads to
- Luke 10:18
So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
- John 12:31
Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
- Revelation 20:10
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day…
- 1 John 5:19
We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
- Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
- Luke 10:18
Through
Zechariah 13:3And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.’ When he…
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 18:20
But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put…
- Deuteronomy 13:6–11
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor…
- Deuteronomy 18:20
Through
Micah 3:6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
it leads to
- Isaiah 8:20–22
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- Isaiah 8:20–22
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.