14<\/strong>. When the rejoiceth<\/em> ] Probably: to the rejoicing of<\/em> the whole earth will I make thee desolate. This gives the requisite antithesis to Eze 35:15<\/em><\/span>: as Edom rejoiced over the destruction of Judah, the whole earth will be overjoyed at her desolation.<\/p>\n Verse 14<\/span>. When the whole earth rejoiceth<\/B><\/I>] When the whole land<\/I> shall rejoice in the restoration of the Jews, I will make thee desolate. Probably this refers to the time of the Maccabees<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n The whole earth; <\/B>the inhabitants of the countries round about thee, the whole that thou knowest. <\/P> Rejoiceth; <\/B>is in peace and plenty, and enjoy both, thou shalt want all; and then envy at the welfare of others shall break thy heart. Envy was thy sin, and now what is the object of envy shall be thy grief, viz. the prosperity of others. <\/P> <\/p>\n 14.<\/B> (Isa 65:13<\/span>;Isa 65:14<\/span>). “The wholeearth” refers to Judea and the nations that submit themselvesto Judea’s God;<\/I> when these rejoice, the foes of God and Hispeople, represented by Edom as a nation,<\/I> shall be desolate.Things shall be completely reversed; Israel, that now for a timemourns, shall then rejoice and for ever. Edom, that now rejoices overfallen Israel, shall then, when elsewhere all is joy, mourn, and forever (Isa 65:17-19<\/span>; Mat 5:4<\/span>;Luk 6:25<\/span>). HAVERNICKloses this striking antithesis by translating, “According to thejoy of the whole land (of Edom), so I will make thee desolate”;which would make Eze 35:15<\/span> amere repetition of this.<\/P><\/p>\n Thus saith the Lord God, when the whole earth rejoiceth<\/strong>,…. When it shall go well with the world in general, and the inhabitants of it; when they shall enjoy great peace and prosperity. Jarchi has a very good note upon this clause,<\/p>\n “when I shall take my kingdom; for then the earth will rejoice, as it is said, the Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice;”<\/p>\n so when Christ takes to himself his great power, and reigns, his church and people will rejoice, Re 11:16<\/span>, as well as at the destruction of antichrist, as follows:<\/p>\n I will make thee desolate<\/strong>; for so some render it, “the whole earth rejoiceth when I make thee desolate”; or, “so shall all the earth rejoice in the desolation which I shall make for thee” c; see<\/p>\n Re 18:20<\/span> and which agrees with what follows:<\/p>\n c “Sic laetabitur omnis terra in desolatione quam faciam tibi”, Vatablus.<\/p>\n (14) The whole earth.<\/strong>This is taken by some writersas, indeed, Hebrew usage very well allowsof the whole land, viz., of Israel. It seems better, however, to keep the sense of our version, for the thought is not confined to Edom. When all the earth shall rejoice in the salvation of God, and the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, then Edom, the hostile power of the world, shall be desolate.<\/p>\n ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “To the rejoicing of the whole earth, I will make you desolate. As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Yahweh.”<\/p>\n The whole earth is pictured as rejoicing over Edom’s desolation, just as Edom had rejoiced over Israel’s desolation. They had rejoiced over the fact that Israel had lost their inheritance, so they too will lose their inheritance at the hand of Yahweh (what of their gods then?). They will be a stark warning to all who afflict God’s people.<\/p>\n ‘You will be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. And they will know that I am Yahweh.’ The desolation will affect the whole of Edom and will be such that all who see it will recognise in it the hand of Yahweh. They will recognise His being and His power.<\/p>\n These predictions against Edom were literally fulfilled. Edom was first subjugated by Babylon, then by Medo-Persia, and then in 126 BC by John Hyrcanus, the Hasmonean ruler of Israel, who compelled them to become Jews and forcibly circumcised them (compare Oba 1:18<\/span>). There is no trace of the Edomites in the modern day, although their desolate cities can still be identified (compare Jer 49:13<\/span>). Indeed the wonders of Petra have made it a tourist attraction.<\/p>\n Eze 35:14<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>When the whole earth rejoiceth<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> I will reduce thee to desolation, the whole land rejoicing. <\/em>Houbigant. “After the return from captivity, when your neighbours shall be recovered from their past misfortunes, and shall have regained their prosperity, you shall be reduced to desolation.” This happened under the Maccabees, who made war with the Edomites, and obliged them to receive circumcision. See 1Ma 4:15<\/span>; 1Ma 5:3<\/span>. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/strong>1st, Mount Seir had before been arraigned and condemned: a second time, to shew the certainty of God’s counsel concerning them, the prophet must repeat the charge and the judgment passed upon her. Since God was against her, <\/em>he must set his face against her <\/em>too. <\/p>\n 1. The provocation given by the Edomites was their enmity and ill-behaviour towards God’s Israel. The hatred of Esau against Jacob had been transmitted as a deadly feud to his posterity: and now, that they had an opportunity to wreak their revenge upon the Jews, they failed not to improve it, and shed the blood of those who fled in the day of their calamity, unable to resist, when the measure of their iniquity was full, and their ruin completed. Note; <\/em>(1.) The quarrels of parents frequently descend to their children; and even national antipathies are often deeply rooted; but the most perpetual hatred <\/em>is that which ever did and ever will subsist in the carnal mind against the children of God. (2.) It is base and cruel to take advantage of the distress of others, to oppress them, and add to their affliction. <\/p>\n 2. The punishment denounced is, the utter desolation of their country. Since they had so lavishly shed blood, God will give them blood to drink. The mountains shall be filled with their slain, and the sword devour without mercy; so that, on whichever side they turned, death met them. Thus should the country be made perpetual desolations, <\/em>and never more be restored to its former prosperity: and in these judgments God will make himself known to them, as the avenger of his people’s wrongs; and sooner or later shall the revenge of the malicious be thus with fearful vengeance repaid. <\/p>\n 2nd, We have farther instances of the wickedness of the Edomites. 2. They rejoiced to see the desolations of Israel; their envy and hatred were thus gratified, and, with a malicious pleasure, they insulted over them. Eze 35:14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.<\/p>\n Ver. 14. When the whole earth rejoiceth,<\/strong> ] scil,<\/em> For my people’s deliverances. Or, When the whole land, scil., <\/em> of Israel, rejoiceth; as it is sometimes hale and well with the Church, when the wicked are in the suds. Judea was the world of the world, as Athens was the “Epitome of Greece,” the “Greece of Greece.”<\/p>\n Isa 14:7, Isa 14:8, Isa 65:13-15 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Isa 24:1 – maketh the<\/p>\n Eze 35:14, The whole earth was to rejoice at the desolation of Edom.<\/p>\n The Lord would cause all the earth to rejoice when He made Edom a laughingstock in the world, just as it had rejoiced when Israel became desolate (cf. Eze 36:5). Mount Seir and all of Edom would become absolutely desolate (cf. Eze 36:10). It would not exist when the Lord restored His people to their land. Then the Edomites would learn that Yahweh is God.<\/p>\n "The prediction has been literally fulfilled. Edom was first subjugated by Babylon, then Medo-Persia, and then in 126 B.C. by John Hyrcanus the Hasmonean, who compelled them to become Jews. There is no trace of the Edomites now, although their desolate cities can still be identified, as predicted by Obadiah (Oba 1:18) and Jeremiah (Jer 49:13)." [Note: Feinberg, pp. 201-2.] <\/span><\/p>\n Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. 14. When the rejoiceth ] Probably: to the rejoicing of the whole earth will I make thee desolate. This gives the requisite antithesis to Eze 35:15: as Edom rejoiced over the destruction of Judah, the whole earth will be overjoyed … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 35:14”<\/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-21369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21369","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=21369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
1. In the blasphemies both against God and his people. Thou hast said, These<\/em> two nations., and these two countries shall be mine; <\/em>they thought of seizing the land of Judah and Israel for their own; whereas, <\/em>or though, the Lord was there; <\/em>which shewed their profaneness and impiety; as if, notwithstanding his presence and protection, they could and would possess it. They concluded because the land was desolate, that God had utterly abandoned the house of Israel, but it was far otherwise; for every boast and insolent word uttered against them, the Lord regarded as a reproach cast upon himself. <\/p>\n
3. God remarked their wicked words: he heard, <\/em>and will avenge them; he will retaliate upon them all the anger, envy, and hatred that they shewed to Israel, and make them desolate as those over whom they rejoiced. Yea, when other nations shall see their miseries removed, Edom’s desolations shall remain; or, as the words may be rendered, The whole earth shall rejoice in the desolations which I shall<\/em> make for thee, <\/em>pleased to behold their fall. And herein God will also glorify himself, and make his justice, power, and regard to his believing people, known in the destruction of their enemies. Note; <\/em>(1.) Not an idle word escapes the divine cognizance; much less the hard speeches which profane and ungodly sinners utter against the Lord. (2.) They who maliciously rejoice in the death of others, by whom they hope to gain, may expect that others will express the same malicious pleasure over them, when the day of their fall arrives. (3.) God will order all the dispensations of his providence and grace in such a way, as to demonstrate his care and faithfulness toward those who love him. <\/p>\nFuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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