Bible Commentary

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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:13”

And thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. 12. all thy blasphemies ] Or, contumelies, 2Ki 19:3. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Verse … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:12”

Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. 11. Amo 1:11 also uses the word “anger” of Edom’s demeanour. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:11”

Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: 10. In aggravation of their historical bearing towards Israel and their participation in her overthrow, Edom has proceeded to lay hands upon the territory of the two houses of Israel, although … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:10”

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. 9. cities shall not return ] Probably, shall not be inhabited (Heb. text teshabnah). The pointing “return” possibly reposes on Eze 16:55. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Return – Or, be … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:9”

And I will fill his mountains with his slain [men]: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. Eze 35:8-15 But ye . . . shall shoot forth your branches. The Divine benison When does God give short measure? When did He … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:8”

Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. 7. passeth out returneth ] A phrase like “shut up and free,” used to denote all classes, cf. “the shod and the barefoot” in Arab. LXX. has altered into “man and beast,” the usual … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:7”

Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. 6. prepare thee unto blood ] make thee blood (cf. Eze 16:38, and on Eze 34:26), i.e. all blood give thee over to universal slaughter. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:6”

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed [the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their] iniquity [had] an end: 5. The causes of the judgment on Mount Seir. These causes are three: first, its perpetual hatred … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:5”

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 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:4”