Ezekiel 35:11-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 35:10-15

Here is, I. A further account of the sin of the Edomites, and their bad conduct towards the people of God. We find the church complaining of them for setting on the Babylonians, and irritating them against Jerusalem, saying, Rase it, rase it, down with it, down with it (Ps. 137:7), inflaming a rage that needed no spur; here it is further charged upon them that they triumphed in Jerusalem's ruin and in the desolations of the country. Many blasphemies they spoke against the mountains of Israel,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 35:11

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord ,.... An oath, as before in Ezekiel 35:6 , I will do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them : as thou hast been angry with them, and hated them, and done mischief to them, so will I be angry with thee, and hate thee, and inflict punishment on thee; I will retaliate all the anger, envy, and hatred showed unto my people, and punish thee according to thy just demerits. So the Romish... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 35:12

And thou shall know that I am the Lord ,.... By the judgments executed upon Edom, and so upon antichrist; for God is known by the judgments he executes, both by good and bad men, Psalm 9:16 , and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel ; the people of Israel and Judah literally, and the churches and people of God figuratively: so antichrist is said to open his mouth in blasphemies, and to blaspheme the tabernacle of God, and them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 35:13

Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me ,.... Or, "magnified against me" F1 תגדילו עלי "magnificastis contra me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, Cocceius, Starckius. ; spoke great swelling words of vanity, or had a mouth opened to speak great things and blasphemy against God, as antichrist is said to do, Revelation 13:5 , what is spoken against the Lord's people is taken by him as spoken against himself: and have multiplied your words against me ; not in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 35:14

Thus saith the Lord God, when the whole earth rejoiceth ,.... When it shall go well with the world in general, and the inhabitants of it; when they shall enjoy great peace and prosperity. Jarchi has a very good note upon this clause, "when I shall take my kingdom; for then the earth will rejoice, as it is said, the Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice;' so when Christ takes to himself his great power, and reigns, his church and people will rejoice, Revelation 11:16 , as well as at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 35:15

As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate ,.... So Edom rejoiced at the destruction of Jerusalem, Obadiah 1:12 , and so the followers of the man of sin will rejoice at the slaying of the witnesses, Revelation 11:10 , which is resented by the Lord, and therefore adds, so will I do unto thee ; make thee desolate, as is explained in the next clause: thou shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it ; not that mount... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 35:12

They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume - They exulted in seeing Judea overrun; and they rejoiced in the prospect of completing the ruin, when the Chaldeans had withdrawn from the land. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 35:13

Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me - Ye have said you would enter into those lands, and take them for your inheritance; though ye knew that God had promised them to the Israelites, and that you should never have them for your portion. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 35:14

When the whole earth rejoiceth - When the whole land shall rejoice in the restoration of the Jews, I will make thee desolate. Probably this refers to the time of the Maccabees. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 35:15

So will I do unto thee - Others shall rejoice in thy downfall as thou hast rejoiced at their downfall. This whole chapter strongly inculcates this maxim: Do as thou wouldst be done by; and what thou wouldst not have done to thee, do not to others. And from it we learn that every man may, in some sort, be said to make his own temporal good or evil; for as he does to others, God will take care to do to him, whether it be evil or good, weal or wo. Would you not be slandered or backbitten?... read more

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