Ezekiel 25:3
Aha — When thou shouldest have pitied, thou didst proudly insult over my people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Aha — When thou shouldest have pitied, thou didst proudly insult over my people.... [ Continue Reading ]
The men of the east — The Arabians, associates of Nebuchadnezzar, who recompensed their service, with giving them this country when it was conquered, as it was five years after the desolation of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
Rabbah — The royal city, called since Philadelphia from the king of Egypt who built it. The Ammonites — The land they dwelt in.... [ Continue Reading ]
Know — Thus God will bring those that were strangers to him into an acquaintance with him, and it will be a blessed effect of their calamities. How much better is it, to be poor and know God, than to be rich, and ignorant of him?... [ Continue Reading ]
Seir — The seed of Esau, the Edomites. Seir was the mountain where they first planted themselves. Is like — Are no more a select people than others.... [ Continue Reading ]
The side — That part of his country which was best fortified. Bethjeshimoth — An ancient city; it was a fortress toward the desert, which watched lest any should make an inroad on the country.... [ Continue Reading ]
With the Ammonites — As I have given Ammon, so I will with them give Moab to the Chaldeans, who will give it to the Arabians.... [ Continue Reading ]
Teman — A country in the southern coast of Edom. Dedan — Adjoining to Edom.... [ Continue Reading ]
It — Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Cherethim — The bowmen, the strength of Philistia. The remnant — Who had escaped the sword of Samuel, David, Hezekiah, and of Psammetichus king of Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]