ORACLES AGAINST AMMON (EZEKIEL 25:1), MOAB (EZEKIEL 25:8) EDOM
(EZEKIEL 25:12), PHILISTIA (EZEKIEL 25:17). All of these petty powers
were ancient hereditary enemies of Israel. Their enmity dated back to
the days before the monarchy, and in the recent disasters and sorrows
of Israel had expressed its... [ Continue Reading ]
EZEKIEL 26. SIEGE AND DESTRUCTION OF TYRE. Tyre is the incarnation of
unrestrained commercialism; and, in the mind of Ezekiel her doom is
justified by the malicious joy with which she hailed the fall of
Jerusalem, whom, as the gate of the peoples, she regarded as in some
sort a rival, taxing, if not... [ Continue Reading ]