Ezekiel 25
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Chapter 25
Chapter Overview:
Verses:
A prophesy against the Ammonites, ver. 1 - 7.
The Moabites, ver. 8 - 11.
The Edomites, ver. 12 - 14.
And the Philistines, ver. 15 - 17.
| 25:3 | Aha - When thou shouldest have pitied, thou didst proudly insult over my people. |
| 25:4 | 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. |
| 25:5 | Rabbah - The royal city, called since Philadelphia from the king of Egypt who built it. The Ammonites - The land they dwelt in. |
| 25:7 | 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? |
| 25:8 | 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. |
| 25:9 | 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. |
| 25:10 | 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. |
| 25:13 | Teman - A country in the southern coast of Edom.Dedan - Adjoining to Edom. |
| 25:15 | It - Israel. |
| 25:16 | 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. |