Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 25:17
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
17. with furious rebukes ] Wanting in LXX. No agents are mentioned as the destroyers of the Philistines.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
This verse is a confirmation of all spoken against the Philistines, and is in all the particulars explained in what went before.
Vengeance; great for measure, and many for number, vengeances, as the Hebrew.
With furious rebukes; in fierceness of anger, and without pity. They, as other stupid nations, will not see till they feel, and then they shall confess it is the hand of an angry, but just, and mighty God.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
17. know . . . vengeanceTheyshall know Me, not in mercy, but by My vengeance on them (Ps9:16).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes,…. By way of retaliation for their vengeance and fury, wrath and malice, against his people; suggesting, that the judgments inflicted on them, for quantity and quality, should be very great:
and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them; they shall see the hand of God in it, acknowledge his justice, and confess that their gods were idols, and that the God of Israel is the only true God.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
17. They shall know that I am the Lord The Philistines were led up from Caphtor to Palestine by the same One who led Israel thitherward from Egypt (see Amo 9:7), and they are now punished for the same reason to bring them to a knowledge of the true God (Eze 6:7). Alas! Philistia refused to learn the lesson to which Israel hearkened.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
REFLECTIONS
READER! I pray you do not hastily pass away from the perusal of this interesting Chapter. See! how the Lord takes notice of his people, even in those seasons, when for their backslidings, one might be prompted to fear the Lord took no part with them. Israel was at this time under chastisement, yea, heavy affliction. But will their enemies insult them in their misery? Will they rejoice when Israel profanes the Lord’s sanctuary: or feel glad when Israel’s land lays desolate, and the house of Judah is gone into captivity? Surely the Lord seeth the enemies triumph, and heareth their reproaches. Jesus takes up the quarrel as directed against himself, and woe to all such oppressors when He ariseth! Hear how the Lord, by another Prophet, undertakes for his afflicted ones, and reproves the enemy for their sakes. Shall I not, saith the Lord (by Obadiah the Prophet) in that day, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mouth of Esau? For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut of f forever. Reader! it is very blessed and most gracious, to find the Lord taking part with his redeemed against all their oppressors; and though He corrects them himself, they shall not be corrected by others uncommissioned by him. Whoso toucheth them, toucheth the apple of his eye. Precious Lord Jesus! give thy people grace to see, and rightly to value their union and oneness with thee; and that even in their distresses for sin, and under thy displeasure, thou wilt not suffer the enemy to triumph; but wilt condemn every tongue that riseth against them in judgment; for this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. Amen.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ver. 17. And I will execute great vengeance upon them. ] Heb., Vengeances. I will pay them for the new and the old together.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
vengeance. Hebrew, plural = great vengeance.
they shall know, &c. See note on Eze 6:10.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will: Eze 25:11, Eze 5:15
vengeance: Heb. vengeances
they shall: Eze 25:5, Eze 25:11, Eze 25:14, Eze 6:7, Psa 9:16
Reciprocal: Exo 7:5 – Egyptians Eze 24:24 – ye shall Eze 26:6 – and they Eze 28:23 – and they shall Dan 4:17 – that the living Hos 9:7 – Israel
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 25:17. Again the chief purpose of God in his chastisements of evil nations is stated, and it is that they shall know that I am the Lord.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
He would take vengeance on them for their treatment of His chosen people. He would do so by these rebukes executed in His wrath (cf. Isa 11:14; Jer 25:20; Jer 47:1-7; Joe 3:1-4; Oba 1:19; Zep 2:4-7). There is no record of the Philistines’ existence after the second century B.C., though the name of their cities remained. They would know that Yahweh was God when they experienced His judgment.
These judgments should be a warning to any nation that spitefully treats the Chosen People of God (i.e., Israel, the physical descendants of Jacob) and that sins against the sovereign God in other ways. He will punish sin and those who abuse His people.