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Ezekiel 13:10-16

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 13:10-16

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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.

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