Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 25:14
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
14. the hand of my people ] Cf. Oba 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.” Isa 11:14, Zep 2:9.
know my vengeance ] that it is I who take vengeance upon them ( Eze 25:4); Isa 34:8.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 14. I will lay my vengeance upon Edom] God will not allow men to insult those whom he has cast down. His judgment is sufficient; to add more is an insult to God.
By the hand of my people Israel] This was fulfilled by the Maccabees, who not only defeated them and brought them under complete subjection, but obliged them to receive circumcision, Joseph. Antiq. l. xiii., c. 17; 1Macc 5:65; 2Macc 10:16.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I will lay my vengeance upon Edom; which as it is great, so just, sure, and opportune, their foot slideth in due time, Deu 32:35.
By the hand of my people Israel; no history mentions the fulfilling of this, as it sounds in the letter of it, unless 1Ma 5:3,2; Ma 10:16,17; some therefore interpret, by the hand, by the same hand, that I used in punishing my people Israel; others refer it to a spiritual meaning, as Isa 11:14; Jer 49:2; Ob 21.
They; the instruments God used, whether Maccabees in after-times, or the Chaldeans in that present age.
Shall do in Edom according to my anger; my just displeasure, as it set them on work, shall give them their strength and measures; they shall do as much as I intended against Edom.
And according to my fury; redoubled to affect the more, and confirm the prediction.
They shall know my vengeance; both Edom, my people, and those I employ, shall see this was my quarrel, which I threatened to revenge, and now have done it, and Edom shall know I am not like their gods, though they said so, Eze 25:8.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. by . . . my peopleIsraelnamely, by Judas Maccabeus. The Idumeans were finally,by compulsory circumcision, incorporated with the Jewish state byJohn Hyrcanus (see Isa 34:5;Isa 63:1, c. 1 Maccabees 5:3).So complete was the amalgamation in Christ’s time, that the Herods ofIdumean origin, as Jews, ruled over the two races as one people. Thusthe ancient prophecy was fulfilled (Ge25:23), “The elder shall serve the younger.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by fie hand of my people Israel,…. This was fulfilled in the times of the Maccabees, when Judas Maccabins overthrew and conquered them,
“Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.” (1 Maccabees 5:3)
and when Hyrcanus took their cities, and subdued them, and they became Jews, as Josephus x relates; though Kimchi thinks this refers to future time, and is yet to be accomplished; and it is, by the ancient Jews y, understood of the times of the Messiah: some choose to understand the phrase,
by the hand of my people Israel, the same hand by which judgment was inflicted upon Israel; suggesting that by the same hand vengeance would be inflicted on the Edomites, namely, by the Babylonians:
and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; that is, shall execute all the anger and fury, or all that punishment in anger and fury, which the Lord in righteous judgment has appointed them to, and has determined shall be performed upon them, by the children of Israel or the Babylonians, as his instruments:
and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God; the meaning is, they shall feel it, and be sensible of it, and know that it comes from the Lord himself; full of resentment against them, and highly displeased at their behaviour towards his people Israel.
x Antiqu. l. 13. c. 9. sect. 1. y In Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 2. fol. 179. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(14) By the hand of my people Israel.This points distinctly to the fact that the Divine vengeance on Edom should be accomplished by the hand of the Israelites, a prophecy which was fulfilled when they were conquered by John Hyrcanus, and compelled to submit to circumcision as a mark of absorption into the Jewish people. Subsequently Herod (who was himself of Idumean origin), as king of the Jews, reigned over them, and their name disappeared from history.
Many commentators would see in this prophecy a further intimation of their ultimate conversion and incorporation into the Church; but this seems quite foreign, not only to the scope of this series of prophecies, but especially to the connection, I will lay my vengeance upon Edom, and they shall know my vengeance.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
‘ “And I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my fury, and they will know my vengeance”, says the Lord Yahweh.’
Here was a message of hope for Israel. For God’s just judgment on Edom would come through the hand of Israel herself, and if that were to be so she had to be restored to the land. There are two kinds of revenge. One is thoughtless and indiscriminate going beyond what is justified. God would have no part in that. The other is measured and deserved, a measured response to a genuine offence given in accordance with the deserts of those on whom the vengeance is requited. That was what was intended here.
What we do know is that later Edom and its survivors were subdued by Judas Maccabaeus, and then by John Hyrcanus (later Jewish leaders), who incorporated them into the Jewish race by compulsory circumcision. Again they lost their nationhood. And all this would take place because of God’s antipathy against their gross sin.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 14. I will lay my vengeance upon Edom. ] Edam ultionem in Edom. See Eze 25:13 .
By the hand of my people Israel.
According to my fury.
a Josephus.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
by the hand, &c. See Num 24:17-19.
saith the Lord God = [is] Adonai Jehovah’s oracle.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
by the hand: This was fulfilled by the Maccabees, who not only entirely subjugated them, but obliged them to receive circumcision. Gen 27:29, Isa 11:14, Isa 63:1-6, Jer 49:2
and they shall know: Deu 32:35, Deu 32:36, Psa 58:10, Psa 58:11, Nah 1:2-4, Heb 10:30, Heb 10:31, Rev 6:16, Rev 6:17
Reciprocal: Jer 16:21 – I will this Jer 49:13 – a desolation Eze 24:24 – ye shall Eze 25:17 – they shall Eze 26:6 – and they Oba 1:10 – and Mal 1:3 – laid Mal 1:4 – The people Rom 13:4 – revenger
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 25:14. Sometimes the Lord chastises one heathen nation by the services of another, but in the case of the Edomites it was to be accomplished by the hand of my people Israel. In performing this service they would he manifesting the vengeance of God. (See Rom 12:19; 2Co 7:11.)
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The Israelites would play a part in Edom’s judgment acting as the Lord’s agents of His anger (cf. 35:1-36:15; Isa 11:14; Dan 11:41; Amo 9:12; Oba 1:18). The Edomites too would come to acknowledge Yahweh as the true God.
Today the residents of the territory formerly occupied by Ammon, Moab, and Edom all go by the name "Arab."