Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:13
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them].
Verse 13. Thus with your mouth ye have boasted ayainst me] Ye have said you would enter into those lands, and take them for your inheritance; though ye knew that God had promised them to the Israelites, and that you should never have them for your portion.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Though the very words be not reported, yet it is certain, from this passage, that they spake proudly against the God of Israel, boasting what they would do, will he nill be. And these blasphemous words or discourses were not once or twice, they multiplied them, it is probable, not much unlike the words of Sennacherib; but they shall smart for all this, and know it is for this, when God acts against them, who durst proudly speak against him. I have heard your words, you shall feel my sword.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me,…. Or, “magnified against me” a; spoke great swelling words of vanity, or had a mouth opened to speak great things and blasphemy against God, as antichrist is said to do, Re 13:5, what is spoken against the Lord’s people is taken by him as spoken against himself:
and have multiplied your words against me; not in prayer, by deprecations or supplications, as the word b used sometimes signifies; but in reproaches and calumnies, vilifying expressions and hard speeches, against his people, in great numbers; which is all one as if they were directed against him:
I have heard them; these the Lord takes notice of, and will call to an account for, either here or hereafter; see Jude 1:15.
a “magnificastis contra me”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, Cocceius, Starckius. b ab “orare suppliciter”.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 35:13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them].
Ver. 13. Thus with your mouth ye have boasted. ] Heb., Magnified, setting your mouths against heaven, your tongues also have walked through the earth. Psa 73:9 ; see the notes there
And have multiplied your words against me.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 35:13-15
Eze 35:13-15
“And ye have magnified yourself against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: when the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.”
“And have multiplied your words against me …” (Eze 35:13). The words that men speak have an importance far beyond what many suppose. Words are by no means unimportant or inconsequential. The Son of God Himself has warned us all that, “By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Mat 12:37).
“When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate …” (Eze 35:14). This gives the time when desolation shall come to Edom. It shall be when “the whole earth rejoiceth,” a reference to the times of the New Covenant, the present dispensation of God’s grace. The present state of the ancient land of Edom is an eloquent fulfillment of what is here foretold.
Any good encyclopedia, travel magazine, or travelers’ guide will afford all the proof that is needed that the prophecies in this chapter against Edom have received the most literal fulfillment. Plumptre noted that:
“This land, once so rich in flocks and herds, so mighty in its rock-hewn cities, so extensive in its commercial activities, so renowned for the architectural splendor of its palaces, is now a desolated and deserted wilderness. Its whole population consists of three or four miserable tiny villages. No merchant would now dare to enter it; its highways are unused; its cities are in ruins.
No ghost town of Arizona or California is any more forlorn or deserted than is Petra.
Feinberg has a statement which is true enough, but which is also the basis of a great deal of popular misunderstanding. He said:
“When a nation gives itself over to the perpetual hatred of Israel, then there is no other alternative than perpetual desolation from God. Nation after nation has experienced this in the past, and some have done so in modern times.
This is true enough as long as one understands which Israel of God is meant. The only Israel God has in our generation is the spiritual body of Jesus Christ, his church; and it has no connection whatever with any racial group of people who ever lived on earth.
Our generation needs to get that fact in focus.
The old racial Israel lost their status when their official leaders cried, “Let him be crucified; we have no king but Caesar.” Ever since that time, they have indeed had no king but Caesar; and this fact is the one overwhelmingly corroborated by history down to the present time.
The great name for Israel in the Old Testament is `the vine’; but, in time the old racial Israel became a bastard vine; but, in the fullness of time Jesus Christ the True Vine came into our world (Joh 15:1 ff); and ever since that event, Christ and his followers have been the Only Israel of God.
Prophecies to Edom and the Mountains of Israel
Eze 35:1 to Eze 36:38
Open It
1. What examples do you know of people who took advantage of someone elses misfortune?
2. With what kinds of suffering do you find it difficult to empathize?
Explore It
3. What did God promise to do to Mount Seir (Edom)? (Eze 35:1-4)
4. What had the Edomites done to anger God? (Eze 35:5-6)
5. What unrighteous attitudes formed the basis for Gods judgment of Edom? (Eze 35:11)
6. How did God intend to vindicate His name by turning the tables on Edom? (Eze 35:14-15)
7. How did God, through Ezekiel, show that He understood all that had happened to Israel at the hands of their enemies? (Eze 36:1-5)
8. What did God promise to do to Israels enemies in answer to their scorn? (Eze 36:6-7)
9. What changes did Ezekiel predict in the land of Israel? (Eze 36:8-12)
10. What did Gods people do while they were dwelling in the land to defile it and reap Gods judgment? (Eze 36:16-19)
11. How was Gods name slandered by the very judgment He visited on His people? (Eze 36:20-21)
12. For whose sake did God act to restore Israel and punish her enemies? (Eze 36:22-23)
13. What did God intend to prove to the other nations who had witnessed Israels punishment? (Eze 36:23)
14. Once God had gathered His people, what internal changes did He promise them? (Eze 36:24-28)
15. What calamities did God intend to reverse for Israel? (Eze 36:29-30)
16. How would Gods people feel about their past rebellion after He restored them? (Eze 36:31)
17. What message would the surrounding nations get from Gods restoration of Israel? (Eze 36:33-36)
Get It
18. What is good and bad about being “opportunistic”?
19. Why is it wrong to scorn those who suffer, even if they suffer for their own sins?
20. Why might the pagan nations have assumed that God didnt hear their slander?
21. By scattering the people of Israel in exile in other countries, how did God jeopardize His good name?
22. What was Gods biggest reason for the dramatic reversal between the mountains (strength) of Israel and of Seir?
23. What does God know that we need (in addition to His material blessings) in order to serve Him faithfully?
Apply It
24. What group of suffering people can you ask God to help you view from His perspective?
25. The next time you become aware of some conflict or disarray among Gods people that damages Gods name, what can you do to be Gods instrument of healing and wholeness?
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
with: 1Sa 2:3, 2Ch 32:15, 2Ch 32:19, Isa 10:13-19, Isa 36:20, Isa 37:10, Isa 37:23, Isa 37:29, Dan 11:36, Mal 3:13, 2Pe 2:18, Jud 1:15, Rev 13:5, Rev 13:6
boasted: Heb. magnified
have multiplied: Job 34:37, Job 35:16, Psa 73:8, Psa 73:9, Ecc 10:14, *marg.
I have: Eze 35:12, Exo 16:12, Num 14:27, 2Ki 19:28, Jer 29:23
Reciprocal: Num 12:2 – And the Jer 48:26 – for he
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 35:13. Boasted means the Edomites had magnified their own importance. They did that when they made the claim expressed by the closing statement of the preceding verse. I have heard them- is a significant fact. God is everywhere with his infinite knowledge and will bring to account all the thoughts and words of wicked men.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 35:13-15. With your mouth ye have boasted against me As if I were not able to make good my promises toward my people, or to assert my right in Judea. When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate When I shall restore other countries, conquered by the king of Babylon, to their former prosperity, thou shalt still lie waste and desolate. The Edomites never recovered their country after the Nabatheans had expelled them out of it. Thou shalt be desolate, all Idumea The expression is like that of Isaiah, whole Palestina, Isa 14:29; that is, all the several tribes and divisions of it. We learn from Psa 137:7, that the Edomites exulted greatly at the fall of Jerusalem, and gave all the encouragement they could to its destroyers. The punishments inflicted on them may teach us that God is displeased with and punishes those who have no pity on the miserable, and who take pleasure in doing evil to others.