Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 25:5
Rabbah; the royal city, and seat of the kings of Ammon, called since Philadelphia, from Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, king of Egypt, who built it. A stable; turn it from a royal palace to be a receptacle of camels, and their drivers. Camels; wherewith not the Chaldeans and Bactrians, but the Arabians also, were well stored; all the men of the East, as appears in Job, using them for conveying merchandise, and for travels. The Ammonites; the people, for the land they dwelt in. Ye shall know; then... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 25:4
I, the God whom thou hast despised, whose people thou hast reproached, whose worship thou hast vilified, I will avenge myself, and deliver time up. To the men of the East; the Medes and Persians, say some; the Babylonians, say others, but this suits not well with geography; Arabians, say others, associates of Nehuchadnezzar, who, it is likely, recompensed their labour and service with giving them this country when it was conquered, as it was five years after the desolation of Jerusalem. For a... read more