Ezekiel 35:1-2

The Lord directed Ezekiel to prophesy about Mount Seir (Edom, Genesis 32:3; Genesis 36:8), to "set your face against" it. The first use of the expression "set your face against" in this book occurs in a prophecy against the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 6:2). Why did God refer to Edom as "Mount Seir" when in the oracle against Edom in Ezekiel 25:12-14 He simply called it "Edom?" Apparently He did so to highlight the contrasts between the mountains of Edom and the mountains of Israel, which He contrasted in chapter 35 and Ezekiel 36:1-15 (cf. Ezekiel 36:1). [Note: Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2, pp. 232-34; Block, The Book . . . 48, p. 310. See Allen, Ezekiel 20-48, pp. 170-71, for many other connecting links between these two contrasting parts of this prophecy. See also Cooper, pp. 306-8.] Two oracles against Edom in one book also double the certainty of fulfillment (cf. Genesis 41:32).