Teks -- Ezekiel 22:25 (NET)

22:25 Her princes within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows within it.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 22:25 - A conspiracy

A contrivance, to speak all alike, smooth words, and give out promises of peace and safety.

Wesley: Eze 22:25 - Thereof

Of the land.

Wesley: Eze 22:25 - The treasure

As a reward of their lies.

Wesley: Eze 22:25 - Made her

By persuading Zedekiah to hold out the war, which filled Jerusalem with dead husbands, and forlorn widows.

JFB: Eze 22:25 - conspiracy

The false prophets have conspired both to propagate error and to oppose the messages of God's servants. They are mentioned first, as their bad influence extended the widest.

JFB: Eze 22:25 - prey

Their aim was greed of gain, "treasure, and precious things" (Hos 6:9; Zep 3:3-4; Mat 23:14).

JFB: Eze 22:25 - made . . . many widows

By occasioning, through false prophecies, the war with the Chaldeans in which the husbands fell.

Clarke: Eze 22:25 - There is a conspiracy

There is a conspiracy - The false prophets have united together to say and support the same things; and have been the cause of the destruction of souls, and the death of many, so that widows, through their means, are multiplied in thee.

TSK: Eze 22:25 - a conspiracy // like // ravening // they have devoured

a conspiracy : Eze 13:10-16; 1Ki 22:11-13, 1Ki 22:23; Jer 5:30,Jer 5:31, Jer 6:13; Lam 2:14, Lam 4:13; 2Pe 2:1-3

like : Eze 22:27-29; Isa 56:11; Hos 6:9; Mic 3:5-7; Rev 13:11, Rev 13:15

ravening : That is, from the Saxon reafian , seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.

they have devoured : Eze 13:19; Jer 2:30,Jer 2:34; Mat 23:14; Mar 12:40; Luk 20:47; Rev 17:6, Rev 18:13

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 22:25 - A conspiracy // Of her prophets // In the midst thereof // Like a roaring lion // They have devoured souls // Taken the treasure // And precious things // Made her many widows

A conspiracy a contrivance, or framing among themselves a design, to speak all alike flattering, smooth words, and give out promises of peace and safety, when there was no peace; they would have the Jews believe in little time the vessels of the Lord’ s house, and the Lord’ s people in Babylon, should be brought back, as Jer 28:1-4 : and whereas Jeremiah faithfully told them that it would be no such thing, but that the rest of the vessels, and Zedekiah, and the people should be carried away into Babylon, they conspire against him, and such as he was, Jer 20:2 26:8 29:25,26 , and persecute them with one consent and mind.

Of her prophets hers, not God’ s prophets, the false prophets, such as Hananiah, Jer 28:1,2 .

In the midst thereof of the land, but principally in Jerusalem, the metropolis, and residence of the court, where were such as loved to be flattered, and of whom flatterers might make gain.

Like a roaring lion whom hunger enrageth, and maketh roar in most dreadful manner, as some observe of them, when they hunt their prey, and when they have seized and are tearing it; so did these false prophets with cruelty and fierceness pursue the true prophets, and such as believed their word, feared the judgments, and mourned for the sins of a self-ruining people.

They have devoured souls have eat up, impoverished, and sucked dry, men that relieved and maintained them, the guise of all false prophets; or they have taken, in their complotting, and swallowed down whole the persons that disbelieved and opposed their lies.

Taken the treasure they did not without reward tell their lies, nor would prophesy without a reward out of the treasures of those that advised with them; so they drained the people of their riches.

And precious things either it is a further explication of what he had said, or possibly it may tell us, that where money was not to be had, these false prophets would demand something of value; and, if it were money’ s worth, they were then for bartering the prophecies: so they gulled these sots.

Made her many widows one while by raising persecutions, and cutting off husbands from their wives; another while, and which most agrees with the place, persuading, encouraging, and bewitching Zedekiah, and the princes, and people to hold out the war, and run all hazards and extremities of that siege, which filled Jerusalem with dead husbands and forlorn widows.

Haydock: Eze 22:25 - Conspiracy

Conspiracy. The false prophets defend each other, (Calmet) while the priests connive at their proceedings, (Haydock) and set the example of wickedness.

Gill: Eze 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof // like a roaring lion ravening the prey // they have devoured souls // they have taken the treasure and precious things // they have made her many widows in the midst thereof

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof,.... Not of the prophets of the Lord, but of her prophets; such as were agreeable to her, the false prophets. The Targum renders it,

"a company of scribes;''

the interpreters of the law; these entered into a confederacy together against the true prophets, and agreed to prophesy the same things, to flatter the people with peace and prosperity, when sudden destruction was at hand:

like a roaring lion ravening the prey; that roars when hungry, and while it is tearing the prey in pieces; so these false prophets thundered out their menaces against the true prophets, and those that adhered to them; clamouring against them as enemies to the state; and threatening them with accusations to it; and carrying on a judicial process against them:

they have devoured souls; persecuted men to death, that would not give credit to their prophecies; and destroyed the souls of those that did, with their false doctrines and prophecies:

they have taken the treasure and precious things; of those they destroyed; or of others, for prophesying smooth things to them; filthy lucre being the principal thing they had in view:

they have made her many widows in the midst thereof; by persecuting their husbands to death for not believing their prophecies; or by persuading to hold out the siege, under a notion of deliverance; whereby the lives of many were lost by the sword, famine, and pestilence, to whose death they might be said to be accessary.