Ezekiel 35:1
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _Moreover the word of the Lord._] Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _Moreover the word of the Lord._] Ezekiel 18:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, Ver. 2. _Set thy face._] Ezekiel 6:2 . _ Against Mount Seir._] Inhabited by the Edomites. _ And prophesy against it._] This had been done before, Eze 25:12 but not enough. God hath a further saying to them, and that for the com... [ Continue Reading ]
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I [am] against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. Ver. 3. _Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against thee._] _Ecce ego ad te; _ have at thee. _ And I will stretch out my hand against thee... [ Continue Reading ]
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 4. _I will lay thy cities waste._] Even Teman, Dedan, Bozrah, mentioned in Scripture; besides many others mentioned by geographers, Maresa, Rhinocorura, Raphia, Gaza, Anthedon, &c. _ And thou sh... [ Continue Reading ]
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed [the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their] iniquity [had] an end: Ver. 5. _Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred._] A hereditary deadly feud against Israel. Heb.,... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. Ver. 6. _I will prepare thee unto blood._] Thou shalt have blood thy bellyful, which thou hast so greedily sought and sucked. _Satia... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. Ver. 7. _Most desolate._] See Ezekiel 35:3. _Iterum repetit, ne excidisse videatur._ I am in good earnest.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will fill his mountains with his slain [men]: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. Ver. 8. _And I will fill his mountains._] Oh the woe of war! The Greek word _a_ for it signifies much blood. _ a_ πολεμος q. πολυαιμος. _Bellu... [ Continue Reading ]
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 9. _I will make thee perpetual desolations._] For thy perpetual hatred. Eze 35:5 _ And thy cities._] See Ezekiel 35:4 .... [ Continue Reading ]
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: Ver. 10. _Because thou hast said._] Ungodly men must answer for their ungodly speeches also. Jdg 1:15 _ These two nations._] Israel and Judah. _ Shall be mine._] Su... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. Ver. 11. _I will do even according to thine anger._] Let the Romish... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. Ver. 12. _And that I have heard all thy blasphemies._] Of both sorts; those in the first table... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them]. Ver. 13. _Thus with your mouth ye have boasted._] Heb., Magnified, setting your mouths against heaven, your tongues also have walked through the earth. Psalms 73:9 _; see the notes there... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. Ver. 14. _When the whole earth rejoiceth,_] _scil,_ For my people's deliverances. Or, When the whole land, _scil., _ of Israel, rejoiceth; as it is sometimes hale and well with the Church, when the wicked are in the... [ Continue Reading ]
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, [even] all of it: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 15. _As thou didst rejoice._] As thou wast sick of the devil's dis... [ Continue Reading ]