Pillows
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
Ezekiel 13:18-20; "women sew pillows to all armholes," rather "to all elbows and wrists." False prophetesses made cushions to lean on, typifying the tranquillity they foretold to their votaries. Compare Ezekiel 13:16," which see visions of peace ... and there is no peace." Perhaps they made their dupes rest on these pillows in fancied ecstasy after making them first stand, from whence the expression is "of every stature" for men of every age. The male prophets "built a wall with untempered mortar" ( Ezekiel 13:10), the women sewed pillows; both alike promising "peace" to the impenitent.
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary [2]
The prophet speaks of "sewing pillows to arm holes." There is here, probably, an allusion to the easy indulgence of the great. To this day in the east they cover the floors of their houses with carpets: and along the sides of the wall or floor, a range of narrow beds or mattresses is often placed upon these carpets; and, for their farther ease and convenience, several velvet or damask bolsters are placed upon these carpets or mattresses,—indulgences that seem to be alluded to by the stretching of themselves upon couches, and by "the sewing of pillows to arm holes,"
Ezekiel 13:18; Amos 6:4 .
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [3]
Placed on the divans around an eastern reception room. The luxurious appliances mentioned in Ezekiel 13:18-19 , were temptations to ease and voluptuousness; and emblems of similar soporifics for the conscience.
