Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:4
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
God doth what he stirs up his servants to do; it was Nebuchchadnezzar who was appointed to do this, and who did it, as Jer 27:6; 28:14.
Thy cities, in the plural; there were many and strong cities in Edom, yet all should be wasted, as Eze 25:12-14, where lie in like manner is threatened.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
I will lay thy cities waste,…. Such as Dedan, Teman, Bozrah, and other cities of Idumea mentioned in Scripture; and figuratively may design all within the jurisdiction of Rome, the several cities of the antichristian states, called “the cities of the nations”; which will fall at the pouring out of the vials, Re 16:19:
and thou shalt be desolate; thoroughly and entirely, and remain so:
and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; that has done all this; that the hand of God was in it; and that this is a punishment inflicted by him, for their sins after mentioned; but not that they should know the Lord spiritually and savingly, and so as to yield obedience to him, and own and acknowledge him to be their God; though this may be the case of a remnant among them; see Re 11:13.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 35:4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 4. I will lay thy cities waste. ] Even Teman, Dedan, Bozrah, mentioned in Scripture; besides many others mentioned by geographers, Maresa, Rhinocorura, Raphia, Gaza, Anthedon, &c.
And thou shalt know.
That I am the Lord.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thou shalt know. See note on Eze 6:7.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Eze 35:4-6
Eze 35:4-6
“I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.”
“A perpetual enmity …” (Eze 35:5). This enmity is indeed a historical phenomenon. It began when Esau sold his birthright for a plate of lentils and continues until this very day in the conflict between the Arabs and the Israelites, despite the fact of the Edomites being no longer a recognizable group. The hatred, however, in both cases goes back to the old conflicts between Esau and Jacob, and between Isaac and Ishmael.
This perpetual enmity is mentioned in Amo 1:11. The historical disasters that have accompanied this vein of hatred are a pitiful example of how hatred, no matter what the source of it, in human hearts can produce disastrous results in the persons harboring the hatred. Christ himself has warned us, that “If we will not forgive those who trespass against us, God will not forgive us our trespasses!” (Mat 6:14-15; Mat 18:35).
“In the time of her calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end …” (Eze 35:5). Plumptre has summarized the various opinions of scholars on what this means: Keil thought it meant the time of Judah’s final transgression; Currey saw the meaning as the time when the capture of Jerusalem put an end to her iniquity;
Hengstenberg suggested that it was the time of the iniquity that brought on her end; and Ewald translated it, “At the time of her extremist punishment.
The long hatred for Israel on the part of Edom led to their refusal of permission for Israel to pass through their land (Num 20:14-21); to their invasion of Judah (2Ch 20:10-11); to their aiding Nebuchadnezzar in the overthrow of Jerusalem (Oba 1:13); and to the outrageous conduct of the Herods and their dynasty against the purposes of God during the days of Christ and the apostles. The Herods were Idumaeans (Edomites). See much more on this in Isaiah 34-43.
“Since thou hast not hated blood …” (Eze 35:6, KJV). Those who are still familiar with the KJV will no doubt wonder about the first word here. Sith is an Old English term that means since, or seeing that.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
lay: Eze 35:9, Eze 6:6, Joe 3:19, Mal 1:3, Mal 1:4
and thou: Eze 35:9, Eze 35:12, Eze 6:7, Exo 9:14, Exo 14:4
Reciprocal: Eze 35:15 – shalt