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I will lift my fist against such prophets and cut them off from the community of Israel. <a href="/esv/ezekiel/14.htm">English Standard Version</a> And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/14.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/14.htm">King James Bible</a> And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/14.htm">New King James Version</a> “And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the LORD have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/14.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “But if the prophet is persuaded so that he speaks a word, it is I, the LORD, who have persuaded that prophet; and I will stretch out My hand against him and eliminate him from among My people Israel. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/14.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220But if the prophet is prevailed upon to speak a word, it is I, the LORD, who have prevailed upon that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/14.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “But if the prophet is prevailed upon to speak a word, it is I, the LORD, who have prevailed upon that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/14.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “But if the prophet is enticed to speak a word, it is I, Yahweh, who have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/14.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “But if the prophet [who speaks without My authority] is enticed to speak a word [of his own], it is I the LORD who have caused that prophet [to speak falsely to please the inquirer, thus allowing himself to be a party to the inquirer’s sin], and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/14.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “ ‘But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, the LORD, who deceived that prophet. I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/14.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet. I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/asv/ezekiel/14.htm">American Standard Version</a> And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/14.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> If a prophet gives a false message, I am the one who caused that prophet to lie. But I will still reject him and cut him off from my people, <a href="/erv/ezekiel/14.htm">English Revised Version</a> And if the prophet be deceived and speaketh a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/14.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> " 'If a prophet is tricked into giving a prophecy, it is I, the LORD, who tricked the prophet. I will use my power against you and destroy you from among my people Israel. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/14.htm">Good News Translation</a> "If any prophets are deceived into giving a false answer, it is because I, the LORD, have deceived them. I will remove them from the people of Israel. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/14.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Now as to the prophet, if through deceit he delivers a message, I the LORD have deceived that prophet! I'll reach out in opposition to him and exterminate him from among my people Israel. <a href="/msb/ezekiel/14.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. <a href="/net/ezekiel/14.htm">NET Bible</a> "'As for the prophet, if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word--I, the LORD, have made a fool of that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/14.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "'"If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/14.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/web/ezekiel/14.htm">World English Bible</a> “‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/14.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And the prophet, when he is enticed, and has spoken a word—I, YHWH, have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/14.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'And the prophet, when he is enticed, and hath spoken a word -- I, Jehovah, I have enticed that prophet, and have stretched out My hand against him, and have destroyed him from the midst of My people Israel. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/14.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And if the prophet shall be deceived, and he spake a word, I Jehovah deceived that prophet, and I stretched forth my hand upon him, and I destroyed him from the midst of my people Israel.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/14.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/14.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And when a prophet has gone astray and has spoken a word: I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet. And I will extend my hand over him, and I will wipe him away from the midst of my people, Israel. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/14.htm">New American Bible</a> As for the prophet, if he speaks a deceiving word, I the LORD am the one who deceives that prophet. I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/14.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> If a prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/14.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And when a prophet shall err and speak a word, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/14.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And a Prophet, when he will go astray and he will speak a word, I, LORD JEHOVAH, have deceived that Prophet and I shall lift my hands against him and I shall destroy him from within my people Israel<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/14.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And when the prophet is enticed and speaketh a word, I the LORD have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel. <a href="/sep/ezekiel/14.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And if a prophet should cause to err and should speak, I the Lord have caused that prophet to err, and will stretch out my hand upon him, and will utterly destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=3200" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/14.htm">Idolatrous Elders Condemned</a> …8I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 9<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: ḵî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">But if</a> <a href="/hebrew/5030.htm" title="5030: wə·han·nā·ḇî (Conj-w, Art:: N-ms) -- A spokesman, speaker, prophet. From naba'; a prophet or inspired man.">the prophet</a> <a href="/hebrew/6601.htm" title="6601: yə·p̄ut·teh (V-Pual-Imperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to open, i.e. Be roomy; usually figuratively to be simple or delude.">is enticed</a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: wə·ḏib·ber (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">to speak</a> <a href="/hebrew/1697.htm" title="1697: dā·ḇār (N-ms) -- Speech, word. From dabar; a word; by implication, a matter or thing; adverbially, a cause.">a message,</a> <a href="/hebrew/589.htm" title="589: ’ă·nî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Contracted from 'anokiy; I.">then it was I</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/6601.htm" title="6601: pit·tê·ṯî (V-Piel-Perf-1cs) -- A primitive root; to open, i.e. Be roomy; usually figuratively to be simple or delude.">who enticed</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’êṯ (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hū (Art:: Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">him,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5030.htm" title="5030: han·nā·ḇî (Art:: N-ms) -- A spokesman, speaker, prophet. From naba'; a prophet or inspired man."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5186.htm" title="5186: wə·nā·ṭî·ṯî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- A primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away; used in a great variety of application.">and I will stretch out</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">My hand</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·lāw (Prep:: 3ms) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">against him</a> <a href="/hebrew/8045.htm" title="8045: wə·hiš·maḏ·tîw (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3ms) -- To be exterminated or destroyed. A primitive root; to desolate.">and destroy him</a> <a href="/hebrew/8432.htm" title="8432: mit·tō·wḵ (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- Midst. From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. the centre.">from among</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·mî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">My people</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel.</a> 10They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet—…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/13-1.htm">Deuteronomy 13:1-3</a> If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you, / and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,” / you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul. <a href="/1_kings/22-20.htm">1 Kings 22:20-23</a> And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that. / Then a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ‘By what means?’ asked the LORD. / And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and prevail,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’ ... <a href="/jeremiah/4-10.htm">Jeremiah 4:10</a> Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.” <a href="/2_thessalonians/2-11.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:11-12</a> For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, / in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness. <a href="/isaiah/66-4.htm">Isaiah 66:4</a> So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.” <a href="/jeremiah/23-16.htm">Jeremiah 23:16-17</a> This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. / They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’ <a href="/1_samuel/16-14.htm">1 Samuel 16:14</a> Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him. <a href="/2_chronicles/18-18.htm">2 Chronicles 18:18-22</a> Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left. / And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that. / Then a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ‘By what means?’ asked the LORD. ... <a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-28</a> Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. / For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ... <a href="/jeremiah/20-7.htm">Jeremiah 20:7</a> You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me. <a href="/matthew/24-24.htm">Matthew 24:24</a> For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive even the elect, if that were possible. <a href="/2_peter/2-1.htm">2 Peter 2:1-3</a> Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. / Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. / In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep. <a href="/1_timothy/4-1.htm">1 Timothy 4:1-2</a> Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, / influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. <a href="/jeremiah/27-9.htm">Jeremiah 27:9-10</a> But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums, or your sorcerers who declare, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ / For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish. <a href="/2_corinthians/11-13.htm">2 Corinthians 11:13-15</a> For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. / And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. / It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And if the prophet be deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from the middle of my people Israel.if the<a href="/ezekiel/20-25.htm">Ezekiel 20:25</a> Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;<a href="/2_samuel/12-11.htm">2 Samuel 12:11,12</a> Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun… <a href="/1_kings/22-20.htm">1 Kings 22:20-23</a> And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner… I the.and I will<a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm">Ezekiel 16:27</a> Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.<a href="/isaiah/5-25.htm">Isaiah 5:25</a> Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.<a href="/isaiah/9-12.htm">Isaiah 9:12,17,21</a> The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/14-8.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-17.htm">Deceit</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-19.htm">Deceived</a> <a href="/ezekiel/13-13.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/ezekiel/13-14.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-10.htm">Enticed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/13-23.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-7.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-8.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-16.htm">Prevailed</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-1.htm">Prophecy</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-7.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-4.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-5.htm">Speaketh</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-13.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-8.htm">Tricked</a> <a href="/ezekiel/13-13.htm">Utter</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-2.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/14-13.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/daniel/8-25.htm">Deceit</a> <a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">Deceived</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-13.htm">Destroy</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-7.htm">Destroyed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/39-2.htm">Enticed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-13.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-11.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-14.htm">Midst</a> <a href="/daniel/7-21.htm">Prevailed</a> <a href="/daniel/9-24.htm">Prophecy</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-10.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-44.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/ezekiel/41-22.htm">Speaketh</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-13.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-6.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-3.htm">Tricked</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-3.htm">Utter</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-12.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 14</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/14-1.htm">God answers idolaters according to their own heart</a> 6. <a href="/ezekiel/14-6.htm">They are exhorted to repent, for fear of judgments, by means of seduced prophets</a> 12. <a href="/ezekiel/14-12.htm">God's irrevocable sentence of famine</a> 15. <a href="/ezekiel/14-15.htm">of wild beasts</a> 17. <a href="/ezekiel/14-17.htm">of the sword</a> 19. <a href="/ezekiel/14-19.htm">and of pestilence</a> 22. <a href="/ezekiel/14-22.htm">A remnant shall be reserved for example of others</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/14.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/14.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message In the context of <a href="/ezekiel/14.htm">Ezekiel 14</a>, God addresses the issue of false prophets in Israel. Prophets were expected to deliver messages from God, but some were swayed by personal gain or societal pressures. The term "enticed" suggests a temptation or influence leading the prophet away from truth. This reflects the broader biblical theme of testing and discernment, as seen in <a href="/deuteronomy/13.htm">Deuteronomy 13:1-3</a>, where false prophets are a test of faithfulness to God.then it was I the LORD who enticed him This phrase highlights God's sovereignty, even over false prophets. It suggests that God allows or uses the actions of false prophets to fulfill His purposes, similar to how He hardened Pharaoh's heart in <a href="/exodus/9-12.htm">Exodus 9:12</a>. This can be understood as a form of divine judgment, where God gives people over to their desires as seen in <a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-28</a>. It underscores the biblical principle that God can use even the actions of the unrighteous to accomplish His will.and I will stretch out My hand against him The imagery of God stretching out His hand is often associated with divine intervention and judgment. This phrase is used throughout the Old Testament, such as in <a href="/exodus/7-5.htm">Exodus 7:5</a>, where God stretches out His hand against Egypt. It signifies God's active role in executing justice and serves as a warning to those who lead His people astray.and destroy him from among My people Israel The consequence for the false prophet is severe—destruction and removal from the community. This reflects the seriousness of leading God's people away from truth. In the historical context, Israel was called to be a holy nation, set apart for God (<a href="/exodus/19-6.htm">Exodus 19:6</a>). The removal of false prophets was necessary to maintain the purity and faithfulness of the community. This also foreshadows the ultimate judgment and separation of the righteous from the unrighteous, as seen in the parable of the wheat and the tares in <a href="/matthew/13-24.htm">Matthew 13:24-30</a>.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet and priest during the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel is the author of the book and a key figure in delivering God's messages to the Israelites. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The God of Israel, who speaks through Ezekiel, emphasizing His sovereignty and justice. 3. <a href="/topical/f/false_prophets.htm">False Prophets</a> Individuals who claim to speak for God but are led by their own desires or deceit, leading the people astray. 4. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The nation chosen by God, often depicted in the Old Testament as struggling with faithfulness to Him. 5. <a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a> The period during which the Israelites were exiled to Babylon, a backdrop for Ezekiel's prophecies.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_over_prophecy.htm">God's Sovereignty Over Prophecy</a> God is in control of all messages, true or false, and uses them to fulfill His purposes. This underscores His ultimate authority and the importance of seeking His truth. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_false_prophets.htm">The Danger of False Prophets</a> False prophets can lead people away from God. Believers must be vigilant and discerning, testing all teachings against Scripture. <a href="/topical/d/divine_judgment_and_responsibility.htm">Divine Judgment and Responsibility</a> While God may allow deception as a form of judgment, individuals are responsible for their response to His truth. This calls for personal accountability in spiritual matters. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_discernment.htm">The Importance of Discernment</a> Believers are called to discern truth from falsehood, relying on the Holy Spirit and Scripture to guide them in understanding God's will.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/14.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(9) And if the prophet be deceived.--The exact sense of the original is, "If a prophet be persuaded and speak a word, I the LORD have persuaded that prophet." The thought is thus in close connection with what precedes; in <a href="/context/ezekiel/14-3.htm" title="Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?">Ezekiel 14:3-4</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/14-7.htm" title="For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojournes in Israel, which separates himself from me, and sets up his idols in his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:">Ezekiel 14:7</a>, the Lord has refused to allow an answer through the prophet to the hypocritical enquirer; but if the prophet, by giving the desired answer, allows himself to become a partaker of the sin which God abhors, then God will treat him according to that general method of dealing with sin which is here described. He "persuades" the prophet in the same sense in which He hardened Pharaoh's heart, by making such persuasion the natural consequence of the immutable moral laws which He has ordained. Men are held back from sin only by God's own Holy Spirit drawing them towards Himself. When they set this aside by transgressing God's commands, the inevitable tendency--the tendency under the moral laws God has established--is to further sin. Hence the prophet who allowed himself to be persuaded, contrary to God's command, to answer the hypocritical enquirer at all, would inevitably be persuaded further to answer him according to his desires. God does not force men either to receive the truth or to act righteously. If, notwithstanding His remonstrances, their hearts are set upon wrong, He will even give them up and "send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie" (<a href="/2_thessalonians/2-11.htm" title="And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:">2Thessalonians 2:11</a>). We are too often told in Scripture of this method of the Divine dealing to leave any room for us to misunderstand the principle. The result is a terrible one, but it is quite in keeping with all we can observe of the Divine work in nature. The man that refuses the medicine, must sink under the disease. The principle is clearly exemplified in the case of Ahab (<a href="/context/1_kings/22-19.htm" title="And he said, Hear you therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.">1Kings 22:19-23</a>), where the Lord is represented as sending a lying spirit into the mouths of the prophets, that they might counsel the king to the wrong course he was already determined to take. God is declared to do this because it was the result under His moral laws of the wicked and domineering spirit of the king who had driven away the true prophets and gathered around himself those who were willing to pervert their office and prophesy falsely to gratify his wishes. Of course this is not to suppose that God can ever be the author of sin and deceit; but He has ordained that sin shall punish itself, and when the heart rejects Him, He withdraws His Spirit from it and gives it up to its own delusions. Thus when Saul's heart became alienated from God, and "the Spirit of the Lord departed from" him, the evil spirit, which came instead, is said to be "from the LORD" (<a href="/1_samuel/16-14.htm" title="But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.">1Samuel 16:14</a>). This kind of judgment is necessarily more common in times of great and general declension from the right. Hence false prophets were especially abundant towards the close of the kingdom of Judah, and form a marked characteristic in the New Testament prophecies of "the last days." No more terrible judgment can be imagined than that of thus giving up the sinner to the consequences of his own sin.Will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.--This is not the word which is so often used in the penalties of the law, "will cut him off from my people." The latter refers only to excommunication, to exclusion from the privileges of the chosen people; but this means that the untrue prophet shall literally be destroyed, like Balaam (<a href="/numbers/31-8.htm" title="And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.">Numbers 31:8</a>), among the enemies of God with whom he had cast in his lot. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/14.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 9. - I the Lord have deceived that prophet, etc. The teaching of modern thought is to soften language like this into "I have permitted him to be deceived." The distinction was seldom, if ever, present to the mind of the Old Testament, or indeed of the New Testament, writers. It is Jehovah who sends the "lying spirit" in <a href="/1_kings/22-20.htm">1 Kings 22:20 -23</a>. It is he who in the latter days shall send men "strong delusions" that they shall believe a lie (<a href="/2_thessalonians/2-11.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:11</a>). In both cases it is implied that the delusion is a righteous punishment, is indeed the natural, because the divinely appointed, punishment of the sin. Populus vult decipi et decipiatur, but the very deception is a means for undeceiving them. At last their eyes shall be opened. The punishment of the false prophet and of those who trust him is at once retributive, and a discipline, and, if the discipline fails for them, at least a warning for others. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>But if כִֽי־ (ḵî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction the prophet וְהַנָּבִ֤יא (wə·han·nā·ḇî) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5030.htm">Strong's 5030: </a> A spokesman, speaker, prophet is enticed יְפֻתֶּה֙ (yə·p̄ut·teh) Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6601.htm">Strong's 6601: </a> To open, be, roomy, to be, simple, delude to speak וְדִבֶּ֣ר (wə·ḏib·ber) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> To arrange, to speak, to subdue a message, דָּבָ֔ר (dā·ḇār) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1697.htm">Strong's 1697: </a> A word, a matter, thing, a cause then it was I אֲנִ֤י (’ă·nî) Pronoun - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_589.htm">Strong's 589: </a> I the LORD יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel who enticed פִּתֵּ֔יתִי (pit·tê·ṯî) Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6601.htm">Strong's 6601: </a> To open, be, roomy, to be, simple, delude him, הַה֑וּא (ha·hū) Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> He, self, the same, this, that, as, are and I will stretch out וְנָטִ֤יתִי (wə·nā·ṭî·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5186.htm">Strong's 5186: </a> To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend My hand יָדִי֙ (yā·ḏî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand against him עָלָ֔יו (‘ā·lāw) Preposition | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against and destroy him וְהִ֨שְׁמַדְתִּ֔יו (wə·hiš·maḏ·tîw) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8045.htm">Strong's 8045: </a> To be exterminated or destroyed from among מִתּ֖וֹךְ (mit·tō·wḵ) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8432.htm">Strong's 8432: </a> A bisection, the centre My people עַמִּ֥י (‘am·mî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock Israel. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Ezekiel 14:9 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-9.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 14:9 If the prophet be deceived and speak (Ezek. 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