What Does Ezekiel 13:10 Mean in the King James?
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
A promise of peace can be the plaster hiding a wall that cannot stand.
THE MEANING
This verse names the danger of hearing peace while the thing called whole remains unsound. The wall and its covering do not become sound because someone reassures you. When reassurance hides the breach, it leads you away from what is in front of you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that hearing “peace” proves the underlying condition is whole.
THE ROOT
שָׁלוֹם
šālôm
GROWS FROM
שלם
š-l-m
To be whole, complete, or sound.
The word translated “peace” carries the sense of wholeness, so the contradiction is not simply that calm is absent: the promised soundness is not there. Its kinship with making restitution ties peace to what is actually made whole, not to a label painted over a breach.
ALSO GROWS
šālēm: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the substance of peace clear: the wall itself must be sound.
šillēm: Repay, make restitution
שִׁלֵּם
This branch connects wholeness with making good what is damaged or owed.
הִטְעוּ
hitʿû
GROWS FROM
תעה
t-ʿ-h
To wander, err, or go astray.
The verb translated “seduced” is a causative form of “wander”: they are making the people stray from what is so. The root pictures a lost direction, showing how the reassuring word “peace” can draw attention away from the wall’s condition.
ALSO GROWS
tāʿāh: Wandered, went astray
תָּעָה
The root’s basic action is losing the way, which gives “seduced” the force of misdirection.
tōʿeh: One who wanders or goes astray
תֹּעֶה
This form describes the state the misleading words leave people in: straying from what is in front of them.
THE PATTERN
When the language of peace covers an unhealed breach, the assurance deepens the danger instead of repairing it.
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.THE THREAD
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.Jeremiah repeats the same Hebrew word, shālôm, and sets it against a hurt only superficially healed. That echo opens Ezekiel’s image further: the coating over the wall and the words over the wound both promise wholeness without making it whole.
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