Ezekiel 35:5

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: BECAUSE THOU HAST HAD A PERPETUAL HATRED - (; ; Obadiah 1:10). Edom perpetuated the hereditary hatred derived from Esau against Jacob. SHED THE BLOOD OF ... The literal translation is better, 'thou hast poured out the children of Israel,' namely, like water. So ; , margin;...

1-9 All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those that have a constant hatred to God and his people, as the carnal mind has, can only expect to be made desolate for ever....

Verse Ezekiel 35:5. _A PERPETUAL HATRED_] The Edomites were the descendants of _Esau_; the Israelites, the descendants of _Jacob_. Both these were brothers; and between them there was contention even in the womb, and they lived generally in a state of enmity. Their descendants kept up the ancient feud: but the Edomites were implacable; they had not only a _rooted_ but _perpetual enmity_ to the Israelites, harassing and distressing them by all possible means; and they seized the opportunity, when the Israelites were most harassed by other enemies, to make inroads upon them, and cut them off wherever they found them. To afflict the afflicted is cruel. This is scarcely of man, bad as he is. He must be possessed by the _malignant spirit_ of the _devil_, when he wounds the wounded, insults over the miseries of the afflicted, and seeks opportunit

SHED BLOOD - Omit “blood:” better as in the margin, i. e., and hast given up the children of Israel to the sword; thou hast scattered the children of Israel in confusion like stones poured down a mountain-side Micah 1:6. THAT THEIR INIQUITY HAD AN END - Or, “of the iniquity of the end,” i. e., the time when by the capture of the city the iniquity of Israel came to an end Ezekiel 21:29....

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 35:1 MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING. As no date is given, the present oracle, extending to the close of Ezekiel 36:15, may be assumed to have been communicated to and delivered by the prophet in immediate succession to the foregoing, with which it has also an intimate connection. Having announced the future restoration of Israel, as Jehovah's flock, to her own land under the leadership of Jehovah's servant David, who should feed them like a shepherd and rule them like a prince (Ezekiel 34:13, Ezekiel 34:23,...

BECAUSE THOU HAST HAD A PERPETUAL HATRED,.... There was an old grudge and enmity subsisting in the posterity of Esau against the posterity of Jacob, because the latter supplanted the former, and got the birthright and blessing from him; and which was discovered in all ages, and at all opportunities, and on all occasions which offered; and such has been the hatred of the church of Rome against the true professors and followers of Christ, as their bloody persecution of them in all ages have shown: AND HAST SHED THE BLOOD OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BY THE FORCE OF THE SWORD IN THE TIME OF THEIR CALAMITY: when Jerusalem was taken by the Chaldeans, the Edomites not only rejoiced at it, and took part of the spoil, but stood in the crossways, and slew those that made their escape; or drove them back upon the sword of the enemy; or delivered them into their hands; which was barbarous and inhuman...

CHAPTER S 35-36 Judgment Announced and Israel's Final Restoration Promised _ 1. The message against Mount Seir and Idumea (Ezekiel 35:1) _ 2. The message of comfort to Israel (Ezekiel 36:1) Ezekiel 35:1. This is another judgment message, which is closely related to the coming restoration of Israel. When the Lord is merciful to His people and bestows upon them the promised blessings, He will also deal with their enemies in judgment. Edom was the most bitter enemy of Israel, their blood-relation. The judgment threatened here was executed upon Edom; but it has a prophetic meaning of the judgment which is in store for the enemies of God's people when the times of the Gentiles end and God ar

EZEKIEL 35 F. THE OCCUPATION OF THE LAND. Indispensable to the restoration of Israel is the possession of Canaan Israel's land and Yahweh's land (Ezekiel 35:10). EZEKIEL 35 F. THE DESTRUCTION OF EDOM. The land had at the time been threatened, if not actually overrun, by the Edomites (Ezekiel 35:2; Mount Seir=Edom), between whom and Israel there had been from time immemorial a persistent hereditary feud (Ezekiel 35:5; _cf._ Genesis 27:40). Possibly the land, including the old northern and southern kingdoms (Ezekiel 35:10), had been g

A PERPETUAL HATRED. a hatred of old. CHILDREN. sons. BY THE FORMS. by the hands of: "hands" being put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Effect), App-6, for the slaughter wrought by thorn. THAT THEIR INIQUITY HAD AN END: or, in the time of the final punishment for their iniquity. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah_. App-44....

The causes of the judgment on Mount Seir. These causes are three: first, its perpetual hatred of Israel, Ezekiel 25:15; Amos 1:11; second. its malicious joy over the downfall of Israel and the part it took in the destruction of the people in the day of their calamity, when the consequences of their guilt fell upon them, Obad. Ezekiel 35:10; and third, Edom's invasion of the land and seizure of it as their own, though the Lord dwelt in it (Ezekiel 35:10). _hast shed … of the sword_ and DIDST DELIVER THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OVER INTO THE HANDS OF THE SWORD....