Ezekiel 25:9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 25:8-17

Three more of Israel's ill-natured neighbours are here arraigned, convicted, and condemned to destruction, for contributing to and triumphing in Jerusalem's fall. I. The Moabites. Seir, which was the seat of the Edomites, is joined with them (Ezek. 25:8), because they said the same as the Moabites; but they were afterwards reckoned with by themselves, Ezek. 25:12. Now observe, 1. What was the sin of the Moabites; they said, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen. They... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 25:9

Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities ,.... Or, "the shoulder of Moab" F20 כתף τον ωμον , Sept.; "humerum", V. L. Montanus. ; that part of their country where their greatest strength lay, So the Targum renders it, "the strength of Moab;' where their principal cities were, their frontier towns, and fortified places, as appears by what follows: from his cities which are on his frontiers ; or, "from his Ars" F21 מהערים "ab ipsis", Haris, Junius... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 25:9

I will open the side - קתף ketheph , the shoulder, the strongest frontier place. Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim were strong frontier towns of Moab. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 25:1-17

A prophet's work was hardly complete without such a survey of the Divine order of the world so far as it came within the horizon of his thoughts; and Ezekiel had before him the example of like groups of prophecies addressed to the heathen nations with which Israel was brought into contact, in Isaiah 13-23. and Jeremiah 46-51. It was natural that the two contemporary prophets should be led to address their messages to the same nations, and so we find Ezekiel's seven named together with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 25:1-17

The tribunal of nations. The Hebrews in captivity might, with probability, suppose that, since God had employed other armies to chastise Israel, such nations were without sin, or else their sins had been condoned by God. Nothing of the sort. God is no Respecter of nations. Righteousness everywhere is acceptable to him. Unrighteousness anywhere is offensive. And touching the degrees of iniquity, he claims to be Supreme Judge and the wise Punisher. Because he employs men in his service, he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 25:8-11

The skeptical nation. The sister nation of Moab, lying just to the south of Ammon, comes second in the order of the peoples whose doom is pronounced by the prophet of Jehovah. It has its characteristic sin, and it will have its characteristic punishment. I. THE RECKLESS SCEPTICISM . "Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen." This utterance expressed unbelief in regard to the peculiar privileges of Judah. The Jews had given themselves out as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 25:8-11

The blasphemy and the punishment of Moab. Although Ezekiel, speaking as the prophet of the Lord, has words of upbraiding and of threatening for the several nations from whose hostility Israel suffered, it is not the case that these words are words of indiscriminate application. On the contrary, they have special reference to the circumstances of the several peoples and to their peculiar relations with Israel. In the case of Moab, the prophet urges a peculiar charge, which is not,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 25:8-11

The sin and punishment of the Moabites. "Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen," etc. The Moabites were the descendants of Moab, the son of Lot by his elder daughter. They occupied the fertile district east of the Dead Sea, and south of the territory of the Ammonites. The condition of the Moabites may be gathered from Isaiah 15:1-9 ; Isaiah 16:1-14 ; and Jeremiah 48:1-47 . The latter prophecy was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 25:9

I will open the side of Moab ; literally, the shoulder, i.e. the slopes of the mountain of Moab ( Joshua 15:8 , Joshua 15:10 ). For Beth-jeshimoth (equivalent to "House of wastes"), see Numbers 33:49 ; Joshua 12:3 ; Joshua 13:20 . It had been assigned to Reuben, but had been seized by the Moabites. It has been identified by De Sauley with the ruins now known as Suaime, on the northeastern border of the Dead Sea. Baal-moon ( Numbers 32:38 ), more fully Beth-baal-meon ( ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 25:9

I will open the side ... - i. e., lay it open to the attack of the enemy from the cities, from his cities, from his frontier (or, in every quarter). There is an ironical stress on “his” cities, because these cities belonged not to Moab but to Israel, having been assigned to the Reubenites Numbers 32:38; Joshua 13:20. They lay to the north of the river Arnon, which was the proper boundary of Moab Numbers 21:13. The Moabites had in the last days of the kingdom of Israel recovered this territory... read more

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