Introduction
3. The condemnation of contemporary false prophets ch. 13
This chapter follows quite naturally from the previous one. There God corrected the mistaken views of His people, and here He rebuked those who were responsible for those views. In this section God pronounced judgment on the false prophets who were responsible for the Jews’ false sense of security (cf. Ezekiel 12:21-28; Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 23). He dealt with two groups of false prophets in this chapter: the males (Ezekiel 13:1-16) and the females (Ezekiel 13:17-23).
"The Prophet Ezekiel has already pronounced the judgment of God on the city of Jerusalem, the princes and the king. Now he rebukes the false prophets. . . . This chapter, one of the most important in the Old Testament on the abuses of the phenomenon of prophecy, may be considered an elaboration of the truth in Ezekiel 12:24." [Note: Feinberg, p. 73.]
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