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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Ezekiel 13:10

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Ezekiel13:10

10. Because, even because--The repetition heightens the emphasis.

Peace--safety to the nation. Ezekiel confirms Jr 6:14; 8:11.

one--literally, "this one"; said contemptuously, as in 2Ch 28:22.

a wall--rather, "a loose wall." Ezekiel had said that the false prophets did not "go up into the gaps, or make up the breaches" (Eze 13:5), as good architects do; now he adds that they make a bustling show of anxiety about repairing the wall; but it is without right mortar, and therefore of no use.

one ... others--besides individual effort, they jointly co-operated to delude the people.

daubed ... with untempered mortar--as sand without lime, mud without straw [Grotius]. Fairbairn translates, "plaster it with whitewash." But besides the hypocrisy of merely outwardly "daubing" to make the wall look fair (Mt 23:27, 29; Ac 23:3), there is implied the unsoundness of the wall from the absence of true uniting cement; the "untempered cement" answering to the lie of the prophets, who say, in support of their prophecies, "Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken" (Eze 22:28).

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