Ezekiel 25:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMMONITES, See Ezekiel 21:28. Ammon was. party to the plot against Gedaliah, the governor whom Nebuchadnezzar appointed after the destruction of Jerusalem, See Jeremiah 40:14; Jeremiah 41:10; Jeremiah 41:15. THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. THE LAND OF ISRAEL. the s... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Fig, _Asterismos_. App-6. I WILL DELIVER. Josephus (Antiquities x. 9, 7) tells us that Nebuchadnezzar subdued the Ammonites and Moabites in the fifth year after the destruction of Jerusalem. Compare Jeremiah 49:23. THE MAN OF THE EAST: i.e. the Babylonians. See Ezekiel 21:19; Ezekiel 21:20... [ Continue Reading ]
RABBAH. See Deuteronomy 3:11. YE SHALL KNOW, &c. See note on Ezekiel 6:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEART. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34) reads "against". HEATHEN. nations. PEOPLE. peoples. thou shalt know, &c. So in Ezekiel 16:22 Ezekiel 22:16; Ezekiel 25:7; Ezekiel 35:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOAB. Descended from Lot, like the Ammonites (Genesis 19:37). Usually hostile to Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
BETH. JESHIMOTH. Now _'Ain Surveirneh,_ near the north-east corner of the Dead Sea (Numbers 33:49; Joshua 12:3; Joshua 13:20). BAAL. MEON. Now _Tell M'ain_ (Numbers 32:38; 1 Chronicles 5:8. of, two miles south of Heshbon. Kiriathaim. Now el Hdreiyat, between Dibon and Medeba (Jeremiah 48:1; Jeremia... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL KNOW, &c. See note on Ezekiel 6:10... [ Continue Reading ]
EDOM. Descended from Esau (Genesis 36:1; Genesis 36:43). For their unbrotherly spirit, see Psalms 137:7; Lamentations 4:21; Lamentations 4:22. and Obadiah 1:10,... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_. App-14. TAMAN.. grandson of Esau (Genesis 36:11).. town or city in Edom, not yet identified.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THE HAND, &c. See Numbers 24:17. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PHILISTINES. Compare Psalms 60:8; Psalms 60:9; Psalms 108:9; Psalms 108:10; Isaiah 11:14. CUT OFF THE CHERETHIMS. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew. _lrikralti larethim_. in English,. will cut off the cutters off. CHERETHIMS. A tribe of the Philistines (1 Sam... [ Continue Reading ]
VENGEANCE. Hebrew, plural. great vengeance. THEY SHALL KNOW, &c. See note on Ezekiel 6:10.... [ Continue Reading ]