SECOND DIVISION. CH. 25 48. PROPHECIES OF THE RESTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM First Section. Ch. 25 32. Prophecies against the Nations The prophecies of Ezekiel against the nations form a single collection in the Book precisely as the similar oracles of Jeremiah (ch. 46 51) and of Isaiah (ch. 13 27). I... [ Continue Reading ]
Prophecy against Ammon The name of this people is usually the children of Ammon (Beni Ammon). This is the name both of the people and the country (in the latter case construed as _fem. Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 25:10_). Ammon was recognised by Israel as a distant member of the same family with themselv... [ Continue Reading ]
_when it was desolate_ i.e. desolated. For the demeanour of the nations on the destruction of Jerusalem, cf. Ezekiel 21:28; Ezekiel 35:13; Ezekiel 36:20; Obadiah 1:12; Lamentations 2:15-16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_men of the east_ lit. _children of the east_, the nomad tribes of the Arabian desert, Judges 6:3. _set their palaces_ their ENCAMPMENTS, Judges 6:1-6. _drink thy milk_ Ammon, lying toward the desert, was a pastoral country.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rabbah a stable_ Rabbah, "great city," was the capital (Amos 1:14); in later times it bore the name of Philadelphia, and its site is probably marked by the ruins called Ammân. The word "stable" is usually rendered habitation, but sheepcote, 2 Samuel 7:8. It may mean a place where animals are housed... [ Continue Reading ]
_clapped_thine _hands_ A gesture of malicious delight, Lamentations 2:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a spoil to the heathen_ the NATIONS (the reading _baz_to be adopted), cf. Ezekiel 26:5; Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 23:46. For people PEOPLES. _know that I_am _the Lord_ The statement is hardly to the effect that the Ammonites shall be converted to the worship of the true God. They shall recognise that t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moab and Seir_ LXX. omits _and Seir_. Ezek. elsewhere always says "mount Seir" (Ezekiel 35:2-3; Ezekiel 35:7; Ezekiel 35:15), and Edom, with which mount Seir is joined (Ezekiel 35:15) has a special prophecy directed against it (Ezekiel 25:12). The phrase "like unto all the nations" implies knowledg... [ Continue Reading ]
Prophecy against Moab The Moabites, like the Ammonites, were recognised by Israel as a kindred people (Genesis 19:30). Technically the border of Moab on the N. was the Arnon, but they had pretensions to the district lying beyond this stream at least as far as the head of the Dead Sea, and these pre... [ Continue Reading ]
_open the side_ Lit. _the shoulder_of Moab, i.e. the border or territory of Moab conceived as looking towards other countries, as "shoulder" has hardly reference to the shape of the Moabite territory (Isaiah 11:14). To open the side is to give invaders access to the country (Nahum 3:13). _from the c... [ Continue Reading ]
Read, with full stop at Ezekiel 25:9: UNTO THE CHILDREN OF THE EAST WILL I GIVE IT FOR POSSESSION TOGETHER WITH the children of Ammon (Ezekiel 25:4). Moab and Ammon alike shall become a possession of the wandering Bedawin. The name of Ammon shall disappear from among the nations, and Moab shall be v... [ Continue Reading ]
_hath greatly offended_ Israel as the people of the true God was inviolable (Jeremiah 2:3), except when Jehovah employed the nations to chastise it. Too often the nations exceeded their commission, cherishing purposes of their own (Isaiah 10:6 _seq_.), and themselves incurred guilt by their excess ... [ Continue Reading ]
Prophecy against Edom The relations of Edom to Israel were changeful. Subdued by David it shook off the yoke under Jehoram (2 Kings 8:20). Reconquered by Amaziah and Uzziah (2 Kings 14:7; 2 Kings 14:22), it rebelled under Ahaz (2 Kings 16:6; 2 Chronicles 28:17), and from this time was probably inde... [ Continue Reading ]
_they of Dedan shall fall_ AND UNTO (as far as) DEDAN SHALL THEY FALL. Teman in the N. of Edom (Genesis 36:11; Amos 1:11; Jeremiah 49:7; Obadiah 1:9), and Dedan to the south; the latter probably only bordered on Edom (Genesis 10:7; Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 25:23).... [ Continue Reading ]
_the hand of my people_ Cf. Obadiah 1:18, "the house of Jacob shall be a fire … and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them and devour them." Isaiah 11:14; Zephaniah 2:9. _know my vengeance_ that it is I who take vengeance upon them (Ezekiel 25:4); Isaiah 34:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Prophecy against the Philistines 15. _with a despiteful heart_ Lit. _with despite in soul_, as Ezekiel 25:6, i.e. the deepest despite of heart, chaps. Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 36:5. _destroy_it for _the old hatred_ Rather: TO DESTROY WITH PERPETUAL HATRED, cf. Ezekiel 35:5; Amos 1:11. The power of th... [ Continue Reading ]
_the Cherethims_ the CHERETHITES. The name was given to the inhabitants of the Philistine coast, Zephaniah 2:5, "woe to the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites … the land of the Philistines." Cf. 1 Samuel 30:14; 2 Samuel 8:18; Jeremiah 47:4. _the remnant_ Cf. Amos 1:8; Isaia... [ Continue Reading ]
_with furious rebukes_ Wanting in LXX. No agents are mentioned as the destroyers of the Philistines.... [ Continue Reading ]