E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 35:8
I will fill . Compare Isaiah 34:1-15 . read more
I will fill . Compare Isaiah 34:1-15 . read more
return = be rebuilt, or inhabited. ye shall know , Re. See note on Ezekiel 6:7 . read more
PROPHECY AGAINST EDOMIt is rather surprising to have another prophecy against Edom at this particular place in Ezekiel, especially since he had just concluded one against the same people back in Ezekiel 25; and a number of scholars have attempted to explain this.Cooke noted that this prophecy, "Gives greater detail, indicating that Edom had recently aggravated their offenses against the covenant people and their God. Also the full accomplishment of God's purpose required the return of the... read more
"I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.""A perpetual enmity ..." (Ezekiel 35:5). This... read more
"Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth. And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses shall they fall that are slain with the sword. I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.""Him that passeth through and him that returneth ..." (Ezekiel 35:7). This is an old... read more
Ezekiel 35:2. Set thy face against mount Seir— That is, Edom. This prophesy is manifestly of the same year with the foregoing; for it is posterior to the siege of Jerusalem, and it precedes the desolation of Edom, which happened about the fifth year after the taking of Jerusalem. I am of opinion, says Calmet, that the prophet marks out here two disgraces of Edom, the one by Nebuchadrezzar, the other by the Jews after their return from captivity. The latter is described here more particularly... read more
Ezekiel 35:5. In the time that their iniquity had an end— That is, either at the time when God exercised against them the last chastisement of their iniquity: or at the time of their extreme affliction, when the anger of God was most inflamed against them. It is the greatest of all cruelties to insult the afflicted, and to add new sorrows to the unhappy. See Calmet. read more
Ezekiel 35:7. And cut off from it him, &c.— And will cut off from it both the traveller and the inhabitant. Houbigant. read more
Ezekiel 35:9. Thy cities shall not return— Thy cities shall not be inhabited. Houbigant. read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 35:6
as I live. Figure of speech Deieis . App-6 . saith the Lord GOD = [is) Adonai Jehovah's oracle. sith = since. read more