10<\/strong>. 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 it is the place of the Lord’s abode and consecrated by his presence.<\/p>\n These two nations<\/em> ] Judah and Israel.<\/p>\n whereas the Lord<\/em> ] Or, although<\/em> the Lord was there. The ref. appears to be to the time when the people were in the land, and the Lord dwelt in it in the midst of them, consecrating it by his presence. This relation of his to the land was unalterable; and Edom had “profaned” his holy abode.<\/p>\n These two nations – <\/B>Israel and Judah.<\/P><\/p>\n Eze 35:10<\/span><\/p>\n Whereas the Lord was there.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Jehovah-Shammah<\/strong><\/p>\n As Palestine was preserved from the enmity of Mount Seir by the presence of Jehovah, so the Church, and each separate member of it, is constantly kept by the power of a present God, despite the rage of adversaries.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>The adversaries of Gods Israel have often thought in their hearts that they would utterly destroy them. One of the Roman emperors set up a monument, In the memory of a destroyed superstition called Christianity. But was our holy religion destroyed? Could the dragon prevail against the remnant which kept the commandment of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ? Behold the multitudes who this day bow the knees at the name of Jesus of Nazareth. The Lord being there, immortality, nay, eternity was in the Church. God is eternal, He is in the Church, and His Church is immortal too.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The enemies of the Church have frequently shown their scorn of her by the ridicule which they have cast upon her attacks. But as the cake of barley bread fell upon the tent of Midian and smote it that it lay along, even so the Church is more than conqueror. Sydney Smith said, when Carey talked of evangelising India, that a consecrated cobbler was going out to preach the Gospel to educated and enlightened Hindoos, but the consecrated cobbler took his post and digged in India a well of which thousands shall yet drink. That man of God has placed the battering-ram of the Gospel in such a position that ere long the hoary bastions of idolatry will tremble, and the world shall see that the weakness of God is stronger than man.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>The worlds estimation of the Church has frequently been seen in the way in which it will mock at all her teachings. The wise men of this world have always something far superior to anything that the Bible can reveal. Ah! we can well endure their boastings, for the doctrines of grace are the loftiest of all philosophy and the most intellectual of all teachings–because Jehovah-Shammah, the Lord is in them; and where God is, there is perfect wisdom; where God is, there is incomprehensible knowledge.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Do they not, also, very frequently cast in our teeth our trials? Nebuchadnezzar can cast in but three, he cannot, however, cast out the fourth; where the Church shall be, Christ shall walk the coals with His people, and they shall come out of their trials triumphant, for God is there. Where God is, there is everlasting love; where God abideth, there is immutable affection; and therefore let this be our comfort, God is with thee, Israel, passing through the fire.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>The world shows its disesteem of us by the way in which it often treats the Christian. It sees him poor and naked and miserable, and therefore pushes him about as though he were a beggar and not one of the blood royal. Little do they know that, however poor the Christian may be, the Lord is there. The very honour and dignity and majesty of Deity itself guards every follower of the Saviour, however much he may be despised among men.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>The early convictions of a newborn soul are always the subject of Satanic attack. Satan hopes that with the laugh, the jeer, the jest and merriment he will destroy utterly all convictions of sin; little does he dream that the Lord is there, and where God sends the arrow home, no devil can ever draw it out.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Then, as the fend has tried to destroy conviction, he will next shoot his arrows against our faith. Poor, feeble follower of Jesus, he will worry thee. But the faith which God gives to us overcometh the world–yea, and overcometh the old dragon too.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>Have not you always found that not only your faith but all your good works are the subjects of Satans attacks? I never yet had a virtue or possessed a grace but what it was sure to be the target for hellish bullets; whether it was hope bright and sparkling, or love warm and fervent, or patience all enduring, or real flaming like coals of fire, the old enemy of everything that is good has tried if he could destroy or mar it. And why is it that anything virtuous or lovely survives in you? There can be no reason given to this, but God is then.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>Note how sedulously Satan aims against the perseverance of Gods people. They will never hold on their way, saith he. You and I have thought we never should. And yet you have not fallen from grace yet, not yet have you disgraced your character, not yet gone back to your old lusts. How is this? Why, God was in you, and if He had not been there, then indeed had you been a prey unto your adversaries. A Christian is something like an express train. On some of our railroads, you know, there are express trains which do not stop to take water, the water lies in a trench in the middle between the rails, and as the train runs it sucks up its own supply of cold water, and so continues its course without a pause. Our God in grace has forestalled our needs, He prepares supplies for His own people, so that without their stopping to seek the streams of creature confidence, sometimes without the use of means, He is pleased to speed them on their pathway towards heaven, fed by a Divine arrangement of grace. Oh, it is blessed to think that if God be there, everything a Christian can want for his final persevering, for his eternal life, is ready at hand.<\/p>\n 5. <\/strong>I have no doubt, beloved, we shall find that when we come to die, our dying confidence will be the object of the enmity of all the powers of hell. Perhaps like John Knox you may have your blackest day at the last, but oh! thanks be unto God that giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, we have no fear for our dying confidence, for God is there, even there where the billows are the most tempestuous and the water is most chill; we shall feel the bottom and know that it is good, our feet shall stand upon the rock of ages even in our dying moments.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Verse 10<\/span>. These two nations<\/B><\/I>] Israel and Judah. The Idumeans thought of conquering and possessing both; and they would have succeeded, but only the Lord was there<\/I>; and this spoiled their projects, and blasted their hopes.<\/P> <\/p>\n Covetousness is here charged upon these Edomites. <\/P> These two; <\/B>Israel and Judah, two ever after the revolt of the ten tribes. <\/P> We will possess it; <\/B>with arrogance they determine what they will do; they reckon the right was theirs, as being the descendants of the elder brother, and now the possession they say shall be theirs too. <\/P> The Lord was there:<\/B> either thus, though God was with Israel, their patron and their right; this is blasphemous pride, to resolve thus against God himself; or though he was present among them, heard their resolutions, and would disappoint them. <\/P> <\/p>\n 10.<\/B> So far from being allowed toenter on Israel’s vacated inheritance, as Edom hoped (Eze 36:5<\/span>;Psa 83:4<\/span>; Psa 83:12<\/span>;Oba 1:13<\/span>), it shall be that heshall be deprived of his own; and whereas Israel’s humiliation wastemporary, Edom’s shall be perpetual. <\/P> Lord was there<\/B>(Eze 48:35<\/span>; Psa 48:1<\/span>;Psa 48:3<\/span>; Psa 132:13<\/span>;Psa 132:14<\/span>). Jehovah claimedJudea as His own, even when the Chaldeans had overthrown the state;they could not remove Him, as they did the idols of heathen lands.The broken sentences express the excited feelings of the prophet atEdom’s wicked presumption. The transition from the “two nationsand two countries” to “it” marks that the two areregarded as one whole. The last clause, “and Jehovah was there,”bursts in, like a flash of lightning, reproving the wickedpresumption of Edom’s thought.<\/P><\/p>\n Because thou hast said, these two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it<\/strong>,…. Meaning either Idumea he was now possessed of, and Israel he hoped to be, upon the people of it being carried captive; or rather the two nations of Israel and Judah, and their countries; which he pleased himself with would fall into his hands, as next heir to them; the posterity of his brother being dispossessed of them. This may denote the claim that Rome makes upon each of the Protestant nations and countries; and which she will think all her own, and that she is in the possession of them, upon the slaying of the witnesses; and when she will say, “I sit a queen, and am no widow”, Re 18:7<\/span>.<\/p>\n Whereas the Lord was there<\/strong>; and heard their words, as Kimchi; and knew their thoughts, as Jarchi; so the Targum,<\/p>\n “and before the Lord the thoughts of the heart were manifest.”<\/p>\n The land of Judea was Immanuel’s land; and as the Lord had been in it, and granted his gracious presence in the tabernacle and temple, so he still continued his powerful presence in it, to protect and keep it for his people; who should return to it after their captivity, and inhabit it until the Messiah came, who was to be born in it. Or it may be rendered, “though the Lord was” or “dwelt there” x; denoting the great impiety and daring wickedness of the Edomites, to think and talk of possessing a country that was the Lord’s, and where he was: and this holds good of the true reformed churches of Christ; the Lord is there, and therefore, though they may be brought very low, and antichrist may triumph over them, and imagine he has got them under his power again, where they shall continue; yet on a sudden his destruction will come, and their deliverance. Or, “where the Lord was” y; but he has now departed, and will never return more, the temple being destroyed; so they said, encouraging themselves.<\/p>\n x “licet Dominus ibi habitaverit”, Piscator. So Syr. y “Ubi Jehovah fuit”, Junius Tremellius, Polanus “et Jehovah ibi fuit”, Starckius.<\/p>\n The Fall of Edom.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> B. C.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN> 587.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR> <\/TABLE> 10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD<\/B> was there: 11 Therefore, as<\/I> I live, saith the Lord GOD<\/B>, 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. 12 And thou shalt know that I am<\/I> the LORD<\/B>, and that<\/I> 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. 13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.<\/I> 14 Thus saith the Lord GOD<\/B>; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. 15 As thou didst rejoice at 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 Idumea, even<\/I> all of it: and they shall know that I am<\/I> the LORD<\/B>.<\/P> Here is, I. A further account of the sin of the Edomites, and their bad conduct towards the people of God. We find the church complaining of them for setting on the Babylonians, and irritating them against Jerusalem, saying, Rase it, rase it,<\/I> down with it, down with it (Ps. cxxxvii. 7<\/span>), inflaming a rage that needed no spur; here it is further charged upon them that they triumphed in Jerusalem’s ruin and in the desolations of the country. Many blasphemies<\/I> they spoke against the mountains of Israel,<\/I> saying, with pride and pleasure, They are laid desolate,<\/I> v.<\/span> 12<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. Note, The troubles of God’s church, as they give proofs of the constancy and fidelity of its friends, so they discover and draw out the corruptions of its enemies, in whom there then appears more brutish malice than one would have thought of. Now their triumphing in Jerusalem’s ruin is here said to proceed, 1. From a sinful passion against the people of Israel; from anger<\/I> and envy,<\/I> and hatred against them<\/I> (v.<\/I><\/span> 11<\/span>), that perpetual hatred<\/I> spoken of v.<\/I><\/span> 5<\/span>. Though they were not a match for them, and therefore could not do them a mischief themselves, yet they were glad when the Chaldeans did them a mischief. 2. From a sinful appetite to the land of Israel. They pleased themselves with hopes that when the people of Israel were destroyed they should be let into the possession of their country, which they had so often grudged and envied them. They thought they could make out something of a title to it, ob defectum sanguinis–for want of other heirs.<\/I> If Jacob’s issue fail, they think that they are next in the entail, and that the remainder will be to his brother’s issue: “These two nations of Judah and Israel shall be mine.<\/I> Now is the time for me to put in for them.” At least they hope to come in as first occupants, being near neighbours: We will possess it<\/I> when it is deserted. Ceditur occupanti–Let us get possession and that will be title enough.<\/I> Note, Those have the spirit of Edomites who desire the death of others because they hope to get by it, or are pleased with their failing because they expect to come into their business. When we see the vanity of the world in the disappointments, losses, and crosses, that others meet with in it, instead of showing ourselves, upon such an occasion, greedy of it, we should rather be made thereby to sit more loose to it, and both take our affections off it and lower our expectations from it. But in this case of the Edomites’ coveting the land of Israel, and gaping for it, there was a particular affront to God, when they said, “These lands are given us to devour,<\/I> and we shall have our bellies full of their riches.” God says, You have boasted against me and have multiplied your words against me;<\/I> for they expected possession upon a vacancy, because Israel was driven out, whereas the Lord was<\/I> still there,<\/I> v.<\/span> 10<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. His temple indeed was burnt, and the other tokens of his presence were gone; but his promise to give that land to the seed of Jacob for an inheritance was not made void, but remained in full force and virtue; and by that promise he did in effect still keep possession for Israel, till they should in due time be restored to it. That was Immanuel’s land (Isa. viii. 8<\/span>); in that land he was to be born, and therefore that people shall continue in it of whom he is to be born, till he has passed his time in it, and then let who will take it. The Lord is there,<\/I> the Lord Jesus is to be there; and therefore Israel’s discontinuance of possession is no defeasance of their right, but it shall be kept for them, and they shall have, hold, and enjoy it by virtue of the divine grant, till the promise of this Canaan shall by the Messiah be changed into the promise of a far better. Note, It is a piece of presumption highly offensive to God for Edomites to lay claim to those privileges and comforts that are peculiar to God’s chosen Israel and are reserved for them. It is blasphemy against the mountains of Israel,<\/I> the holy mountains, to say, because they are for the present made a prey of and trodden under foot of the Gentiles<\/I> (Rev. xi. 2<\/span>), even the holy city<\/I> itself, that therefore the Lord has forsaken them,<\/I> their God has forgotten them.<\/I> The apostle will by no means admit such a thought as this, that God hath cast away his people,<\/I> Rom. xi. 1<\/I><\/span>. No; though they are cast down for a time, they are not cast off for ever. Those reproach the Lord<\/I> who say they are.<\/P> II. The notice God took of the barbarous insolence of the Edomites, and the doom passed upon them for it: I have heard all thy blasphemies,<\/I> v.<\/span> 12<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. And again (v.<\/I><\/span> 13<\/span>), You have multiplied your words against me,<\/I> and I have heard them,<\/I> I have observed them, I have kept an account of them. Note, In the multitude of words, not one escapes God’s cognizance; let men speak ever so much, ever so fast, though they multiply words, which they themselves regard not, but forget immediately, yet none of them are lost in the crowd, not the most idle words; but God hears them, and will be able to charge the sinner with them. All the haughty and hard speeches, particularly, which are spoken against the Israel of God, the words which are magnified<\/I> (as it is in the margin, v.<\/I><\/span> 13<\/span>) as well as the words which are multiplied, God takes notice of. For, as the most trifling words are not below his cognizance, so the most daring are not above his rebuke. I have heard all thy blasphemies.<\/I> This is a good reason why we should bear reproach as if we heard it not, because God will hear,<\/I>Psa 38:13<\/span>; Psa 38:15<\/span>. God has heard the Edomites’ blasphemy; let them therefore hear their doom, Eze 35:14<\/span>; Eze 35:15<\/span>. It was a national sin (the blasphemies charged upon them were the sense and language of all the Edomites), and therefore shall be punished with a national desolation. And, 1. It shall be a distinguishing punishment. As God has peculiar favours for Israelites, so he has peculiar plagues for Edomites: so that “When the whole earth rejoices I will make thee desolate;<\/I> when other nations have their desolations repaired, to their joy, thine shall be perpetual,<\/I>” v.<\/I><\/span> 9<\/span>. 2. The punishment shall answer to the sin: “As thou didst rejoice in the desolation of the house of Israel,<\/I> God will give thee enough of desolation; since thou art so fond of it, thou shalt be desolate; I will make thee so.<\/I>” Note, Those who, instead of weeping with the mourners, make a jest of their grievances, may justly be made to weep like the mourners, and themselves to feel the weight, to feel the smart, of those grievances which they set so light by. Some read v.<\/I><\/span> 14<\/span> so as to complete the resemblance between the sin and the punishment: The whole earth shall rejoice when I make thee desolate, as thou didst rejoice when Israel<\/I> was made desolate. Those that are glad at the death and fall of others may expect that others will be glad of their death, of their fall. 3. In the destruction of the enemies of the church God designs his own glory, and we may be sure that he will not come short of his design. (1.) That which he intends is to manifest himself, as a just and jealous God, firm to his covenant and faithful to his people and their injured cause (v.<\/I><\/span> 11<\/span>): I will make myself known among them when I have judged thee.<\/I> The Lord is and will be known by the judgments which he executes. (2.) His intention shall be fully answered; not only his own people shall be made to know it to their comfort, but even the Edomites themselves, and all the other enemies of his name and people, shall know that he is the Lord,<\/I>Eze 35:4<\/span>; Eze 35:9<\/span>; Eze 35:15<\/span>. As the works of creation and common providence demonstrate that there is a God, so the care taken of Israel shows that Jehovah, the God of Israel, is that God alone, the true and living God.<\/P><\/p>\n (10) These two countries shall be mine.<\/strong>In Eze. 35:3-9<\/span> the sin charged upon Edom is its hatred of Israel; in Eze. 35:10-15<\/span>, its desire to possess itself of Israels inheritance. The two<\/em> nations and countries are, of course, the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.<\/p>\n Whereas the Lord was there.<\/strong>This fact brings out the real sin. Edom desired Israels possessions, not as it might have desired those of other nations, but knowing that this was the peculiar inheritance given by God to His people, and which it thought ought to have been given to itself as the elder branch, thus arraying itself in direct opposition to God.<\/p>\n “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it’, whereas Yahweh was there. Therefore as I live says the Lord Yahweh, I will act in accordance with your anger, and in accordance with your envy which you have shown in your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them, when I judge you. And you will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate, they are given to us to devour’. And you have magnified yourselves against me, with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”<\/p>\n Edom were guilty of two major crimes. They considered that they could annex the land that belonged to Yahweh, His possession, and they had magnified themselves (and their gods) against Yahweh. The two nations here are Israel and Judah. But the land belonged to Yahweh. ‘Yahweh was there’, as they well knew. Thus in saying what they did they were despising Yahweh.<\/p>\n Furthermore their acts were acts of anger and jealousy against their ‘brothers’, acts which therefore drew on them Yahweh’s retribution. Thus when the retribution came Israel and Judah would recognise in it the hand of Yahweh, ‘I will make myself known among them when I judge you’.<\/p>\n And their words against the mountains of Israel were blasphemy, because while those mountains were Yahweh’s, they considered that they were now given to them (by their gods). The implication may also be that they had actually stated openly and constantly that Yahweh’s land was now given to them and their gods. That would be the view of an ancient nation. And it would make the blasphemy even more outrageous.<\/p>\n ‘I have heard it.’ All is open to Him. No word can be spoken without Him hearing it. Thus He wanted them to know that He had overheard their words and would call them to account. Men are justified or condemned by their words (Mat 12:37<\/span>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong> Against the Covetousness of Edom<\/p>\n v. 10. Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine,<\/strong> namely, Israel and Judah, and we will possess it,<\/strong> although the inhabitants of Edom knew that Canaan was given for a possession to the children of Israel, whereas the Lord was there,<\/strong> Jehovah was the real Owner of the Land of Promise and held it in trust for His own children, <\/p>\n v. 11. therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thine anger,<\/strong> rewarding it with the injury which it deserved, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them,<\/strong> for anger and envy grow out of hatred and show themselves in word and deed; and I will make myself known among them when I have judged thee,<\/strong> that is, by punishing Edom for his pride and the crimes of his hatred, the Lord would bear witness of Himself that he would not permit His people and their land to be attacked and devastated without taking revenge upon the enemies. <\/p>\n v. 12. 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,<\/strong> for a mockery of the Lord’s people amounted to blasphemy of the name of the Lord Himself, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. <\/strong> The fact that the Lord chose to punish his people did not give the enemies the right to take advantage of Judah’s plight and to put themselves in possession of their land. <\/p>\n v. 13. Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against Me,<\/strong> magnifying themselves to the detriment of the Lord, and have multiplied your words against Me,<\/strong> in an excess of blasphemous exultation; I have heard them. <\/p>\n v. 14. Thus saith the Lord God, When the whole earth rejoiceth,<\/strong> when all those who hear and heed the gracious call of Jehovah, men from the great majority of nations acknowledging him as the one true God, I will make thee desolate,<\/strong> as the one exception in the midst of general rejoicing. <\/p>\n v. 15. As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate,<\/strong> in vindictive meanness over its downfall, so will I do unto thee,<\/strong> in executing the punishment of his vengeance upon them; thou shalt be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the Lord. <\/strong> All those who are guilty of blasphemous mockery against the Lord may expect to share the fate of Edom, as it was here prophesied and as it later came to pass. <\/p>\n Eze 35:10<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Whereas the Lord was there<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> Whereas the Lord hath laid it waste. <\/em>Houbigant. See Eze 35:12<\/span>. The two nations <\/em>and countries, <\/em>mean the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel. <\/p>\n We shall enter into a due apprehension of what is here said, and also the interest the whole Church of Christ hath in it, if we read it as it ought to be read, spiritually; and the Lord the Holy Ghost be our teacher. It is truly blessed, in the conflicts of grace and corruption, to trace each to the original head; and while the children of God all feel, as that they do feel the remains of indwelling corruption in nature, which manifest their alliance to the old man; they no less feel the workings of grace in the spirit, which proves their connection with the new man, which, after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness. Eph 4:22-24<\/span> . Reader! see a notable proof of this in Paul the Apostle’s experience. Rom 7:14-25<\/span> . In this memorable relation of the groanings and conflicts of so eminent a servant of the Lord, we ought to find much comfort to all our similar exercises; remembering that our grand relief, under such soul-agonizing trials, is the same as Paul’s was, wholly in the Lord Jesus! Oh! it is blessed to be made sensible of our nothingness, when such humblings lead the soul to Jesus and his all sufficiency!<\/p>\n Eze 35:10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:<\/p>\n Ver. 10. Because thou hast said.<\/strong> ] Ungodly men must answer for their ungodly speeches also. Jdg 1:15 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n These two nations.<\/strong> ] Israel and Judah. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shall be mine.<\/strong> ] Such was their avarice and ambition that they made account all was their own; they had in their hopes devoured these two countries which God had reserved for a better purpose. He kept the room empty till the return of the natives; and the land kept her sabbaths, resting from tillage, &c. And yet these miscreants added, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whereas the Lord was there.<\/strong> ] Or, Though it be a Jehovahshammah, as Eze 48:35<\/span> ; be it that the Lord is there – scil., <\/em> to keep possession against us – we will out him, and have it in despite of him. O tongues worthy to be pulled out, cut in gobbets, and driven down their throats, that did thus blaspheme!<\/p>\n NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 35:10-15<\/p>\n 10Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the LORD was there, 11therefore as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you. 12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.’ 13And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it. 14’Thus says the Lord GOD, As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation. 15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’<\/p>\n Eze 35:10 Edom rejected its required brotherly love for Judah (and Israel, i.e., two nations) and desired her lands for herself (see Special Topic: Edom and Israel , cf. Eze 35:5; Eze 35:10). The problem is that Judah’s land belonged to YHWH (i.e., the Lord was there). It was only Judah’s by a conditional covenant.<\/p>\n YHWH left Judah in chapter 10, but in Eze 48:35 the book of Ezekiel ends with The YHWH is there (cf. Psa 132:13-14).<\/p>\n Eze 35:12<\/p>\n NASBrevilings<\/p>\n NKJV, NJBblasphemies<\/p>\n NRSVabusive speech<\/p>\n TEVwith contempt<\/p>\n The noun (BDB 611) is found only here and Neh 9:18. The revilings are against the mountains of Israel, but clearly, in context, it is against Israel’s God (cf. Eze 35:5; Eze 35:10-11; Eze 35:13). This is why Edom is often seen as a type of all anti-God nations!<\/p>\n Eze 35:14 as all the earth rejoices This is a hyperbolic metaphor. The earth, as YHWH’s creation, rejoices when His will is done. The earth is affected by humanity’s sin (cf. Genesis 3; Rom 8:19-22).<\/p>\n thou host said. Compare Psa 83:4, Psa 83:12. <\/p>\n two : i.e. Israel and Judah. <\/p>\n it. Can this refer to the blessing which Esau sought? <\/p>\n whereas: or, though. <\/p>\n was there. Compare Eze 36:2, Eze 36:5, and Eze 48:35, <\/p>\n Eze 35:10-12<\/p>\n Eze 35:10-12<\/p>\n “Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas Jehovah was there: therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast showed out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge them. And thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, have heard all thy revilings which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.”<\/p>\n “These two nations and these two countries …” (Eze 35:10). These are Israel and Judah, the covenant people after the division of the monarchy, the northern and the southern Israels, Samaria and Jerusalem.<\/p>\n “Whereas Jehovah was there …” (Eze 35:10). True enough, God was in Palestine; but is he not also in every other place in all the earth? Jonah fled to Tarshish (or was trying to do so) “from the presence of Jehovah”; but he found out that God’s presence was not limited to Palestine. God is not only the God of Palestine, but the God of all the world and of all humanity.<\/p>\n “Thy revilings which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel …” (Eze 35:12) The revilings were bad enough, but Edom’s verbal assault upon the mined countries was followed by their moving militarily against them. It appears that they actually penetrated and occupied Palestine as far south as Hebron.<\/p>\n thou hast: Eze 36:5, Psa 83:4-12, Jer 49:1, Oba 1:13 <\/p>\n whereas: or, though, Eze 48:35, Psa 48:1-3, Psa 76:1, Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14, Isa 12:6, Isa 31:9, Zep 3:15, Zec 2:5 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Psa 14:6 – Ye Jer 33:24 – thus Eze 5:8 – in the Eze 25:3 – thou saidst Eze 35:12 – consume Eze 36:2 – ours Joe 3:2 – and parted Amo 1:13 – ripped up the women with child<\/p>\n Eze 35:10. The two nations and tioo countries refers to Judah and Israel, into which the Jews were divided after the death of Solomon (1 Kings 12), Edom was vain enough .to think he could possess the lands of those contries. Whereas the Lord was there is the expression or comment of the prophet. It is Ezekiel saying, “Edom thought he could take that land, which was impossible since the Lord was there.<\/p>\n 35:10 Because thou hast said, {e} These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; though the LORD was {f} there:<\/p>\n (e) Meaning, Israel and Judah.<\/p>\n (f) And so by fighting against God’s people they should go about to put him out of his own possession.<\/p>\n The Lord gave three more reasons for Edom’s judgment (cf. Eze 35:5). The Edomites had wanted to take over the lands of both Israel and Judah even though they were the lands of Yahweh (cf. Eze 36:12). Ancient Near Easterners viewed the lands of nations as the domain of the gods of those nations. To take a nation was to overcome its god. Thus in trying to take over Israel’s land Edom tried to discredit Yahweh since "the Lord was there," it was His land (cf. Eze 35:12; Eze 48:35). This in turn involved failing to recognize Yahweh as the only true God (Eze 35:13).<\/p>\n 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”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
I. <\/strong>A despised people constantly triumphant because the Lord was there. The people of God have always been, in every age, a hated and despised people. This may be seen if you will notice a few facts.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The man opposed and yet a conqueror.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>A desolate soul not destroyed, because God is there. My purpose is, says Satan, that be shall dwell forever with me, in misery extreme. I have laid hold upon him, says he, and he hath made a league with hell. He is mine, he is mine forever. But stop, stop, the Lord was there before the devil. Does the devil purpose? Ah, but Gods purpose is older than the devils purpose. Does the sinner make a covenant? Ay, but then, Gods covenant was made before that sinner was born, and what is the devils purpose compared with Gods purpose? You see, God is there before him–Whereas the Lord was there. Ah, but, said Satan, he is mine, I will have him, I will go and take possession, he is mine; and so he is about to enter the vineyard, and take possession of the vines of sour grapes, when lo! someone meets him on the threshold, and says, What dost thou here? I am come to take possession, saith he. Take possession! saith Christ; I have a claim upon this vineyard, I bought it and paid for it with drops of blood; what dost thou here? Thou sayest, I will possess this land, whereas the Lord was there: and He shows the fiend the print of the nails, and points to His wounded side, and says, Whatever thy claim may be, Mine is a higher claim; I bought, I paid for, I have the acceptance from the Divine hand, and this vessel of mercy was Mine, Mine long before thou couldst have any claim upon it.<\/p>\n
IV. <\/strong>The same, dear friends, is true with regard to the entire world. The world cannot be destroyed, because Jehovah is there. This world once shone, like its sister stars, bright and fair, but a sad shadow of eclipse was thrown upon it–it became swathed in the mists of sin and though the glory of the Lord hath risen upon it, yet still much of the gloom and the thick darkness continues. Shall that darkness cover all the nation? Shall the light become dim forever? No, no; The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Shall its groans and travails end in nothing? No, no; the day cometh when The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (C. H. Spurgeon.<\/em>)<\/p>\n
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