Ezekiel 14:10

Ezekiel 14:10

8 ^aI will set My face against that man and make him a ^bsign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. ^cThen you shall know that I am the Lord.

9 “And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the Lord ^ahave induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.

10 And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired,

11 that the house of Israel may ^ano longer stray from Me, nor be profaned anymore with all their transgressions, ^bbut that they may be My people and I may be their God,“ says the Lord God.’ ”

Judgment on Persistent Unfaithfulness

12 The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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As they dealt deceitfully with God by seeking answers of peace without repentance, so God would let them be dealt with deceitfully by the prophets whom they consulted. God would chastise their sin with a corresponding sin; as they rejected the safe directions of the true light, He would send the pernicious delusions of a false one; prophets would be given them who should re-echo the deceitfulness that already wrought in their own bosom, to their ruin [FAIRBAIRN]. The people had themselves alone to blame, for they were long ago forewarned how to discern and to treat a false prophet (Deuteronomy 13:3); the very existence of such deceivers among them was a sign of God's judicial displeasure (compare in Saul's case, I Samuel 16:14; I Samuel 28:6-7). They and the prophet, being dupes of a common delusion, should be involved in a common ruin.

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