Ezekiel 25:1-7

The Oracle Against Ammon (Ezekiel 25:1).

The Ammonites, while possibly having been joined with Judah and others in an anti-Babylon alliance, were permanent enemies of Israel/Judah (see Judges 3:13; Judges 10-11; 1 Samuel 11; 2 Samuel 10; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Chronicles 20; Amos 1:13; Zephaniah 2:8). They were excluded from becoming Israelites by adoption for ‘ten generations' (Deuteronomy 23:3). That they were part of an alliance with Jerusalem is suggested by Ezekiel 21:18. But that did not prevent them from pouring scorn on Jerusalem's situation, which made their sin the worse. And later their king would help to arrange the assassination of Gedaliah (Jeremiah 40:14 to Jeremiah 41:2) at the hand of Israelites who had fled to Ammon for protection against the approaching Babylonian armies.