Ezekiel 25:7

a spoil to the heathen the nations (the reading bazto be adopted), cf. Ezekiel 26:5; Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 23:46. For people peoples.

know that Iam the Lord The statement is hardly to the effect that the Ammonites shall be converted to the worship of the true God. They shall recognise that there is one Most high, ruling in the kingdom of men (Daniel 4:17), and that it is he who is shaping their history; possibly also that this God is Jehovah, God of Israel. The prophet does not pursue the destinies of the nations beyond this recognition, nor state what it implies. It is to be observed, however, that Israel restored, though occupying only the land west of the Jordan, enjoys profound peace on all sides. The nations that swell the army of Gog (ch. 38) are not Israel's historical neighbours, but peoples from the uttermost parts of the earth.