Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
28. have daubed them ] daubed for them, seconding them. The persons called “princes” may be referred to, but not exclusively. Cf. ch. Eze 13:10, and Eze 13:6-7.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 28. Her prophets] Even those who profess themselves to be my prophets, have been unfaithful in the discharge of their office; have soothed the people in their sins, and pretended to have oracles of peace and safety when I had not spoken to them.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Prophets; false prophets.
Have daubed them; flattered their oppressing bloody princes in their ways of sin and violence.
With untempered mortar; with promises and encouragements that, like ill tempered mortar, will deceive them, though all seems for the present smooth and safe. Divining lies; pretending they had by vision from God all the good they promised, whereas it was all a notorious lie and falsehood. God never spake to those prophets, and what by his own prophets he spake was of quite another tenure, it was evil, not good.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
28. Referring to the falseassurances of peace with which the prophets flattered the people,that they should not submit to the king of Babylon (see on Eze13:10; Eze 21:29; Jer 6:14;Jer 23:16; Jer 23:17;Jer 27:9; Jer 27:10).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar,…. Palliated their sins, declared it to be right to shed the blood they did; and seize on the estates of men; but this, though it might for a while satisfy the consciences of these princes, and stop the clamours of the people against them; yet would not last long, but be like the building of a wall with bad stuff, which will not stand; and daubing it with mortar, which will soon wash off. So the Targum,
“and the false prophets which are in the midst of her are like to those that build a wall, and daub it with mere clay, without straw;”
[See comments on Eze 13:10].
Seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them; pretending visions from God, when what they see, or pretend to see, is nothing but vanity and emptiness, mere delusions; and prophesying good things, peace and prosperity, when they are all lies; giving out they have messages from God, and are ordered to foretell that happy times will be, when it is all falsehood:
saying, thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken; herein mimicking the true prophets, who came in the name of the Lord, and usually prefaced their prophecies with a thus saith the Lord; and so did these false prophets, when the Lord said nothing to them, and gave them no commission to speak in his name, or say the things they did.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(28) With untempered morter.See Note on Eze. 13:10. The prophets are here again spoken of in reference to their powerful influence upon the princes in leading them astray by falsehoods. Seeing vanity is an expression for pretended and false visions. (Comp. Eze. 13:7; Eze. 13:9-10.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
28. Even the prophets who were an independent order supposed to be bound by no temple prejudices or political alliances, called of God in every generation to rebuke both king and high priest when they failed in duty even they had become flatterers, “whitewashing” (Hebrews) the sins of the nobles and crying “peace” to every voice that raised itself against the evils of the day. (See Eze 13:6-10.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 22:28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
Ver. 28. And her prophets have daubed them. ] Similes iis qui parietem incrustant luto friabili et solubili. See Eze 13:4 , &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
prophets: The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes – the antecedent to them to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge. Eze 22:25, Eze 13:10-16, Isa 30:10, Jer 8:10, Jer 8:11
seeing: Eze 13:22, Eze 13:23, Eze 21:29, Jer 23:25-32, Lam 2:14, Zep 3:4
Thus saith the Lord: Eze 13:6, Eze 13:7, Jer 23:21, Jer 28:2, Jer 28:15, Jer 29:8, Jer 29:9, Jer 37:19
Reciprocal: 1Ki 22:11 – Thus saith 2Ch 18:10 – Thus Psa 22:13 – as a Jer 20:6 – thy friends Jer 23:16 – a vision Amo 2:4 – and their
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 22:28. This comparison to untempered mortar in the case of false teaching was used in Eze 13:9-11 and commented upon in that place. The false prophets claimed to have received some vision from the Lord, whereas He would not even make any use of such persons in such important matters as pertained to the welfare of the nation.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
22:28 And her {p} prophets have daubed them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
(p) They who would have reproved them, flattered them in their vices and covered their doings with lies. See Geneva “Eze 13:10”