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Ezekiel 25:2
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“Son of man, face the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
Son of man, set your face toward the children of `Ammon, and prophesy against them:
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
"Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
"Son of man, set your face against the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them,
"Human, look toward the people of Ammon and prophesy against them.
"Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:
Sonne of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophecie against them,
"Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them,
"Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them
"Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Ammon
"Human being, turn your face toward the people of ‘Amon and prophesy against them;
Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
"Son of man, look toward the people of Ammon and speak against them for me.
Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them;
"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Ammon.
"Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them,
Son of man, set your face against the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them.
Thou sonne of man, set thy face agaynst ye Ammonites, prophecy vpon them,
Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:
'Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
Sonne of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophecie against them,
Thou sonne of man, set thy face toward the Ammonites, and prophecie vpon them.
Son of man, set thy face steadfastly against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, sette thi face ayens the sones of Amon, and thou schalt profesie of hem.
Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them:
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
"Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
"Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them.
"Son of man, turn and face the land of Ammon and prophesy against its people.
"Son of man, look toward the Ammonites and speak against them.
Mortal, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
Son of man Set thy face against the sons of Ammon, - and prophesy against them.
Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou shalt prophesy of them.
"Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites, and prophesy against them.
`Son of man, set thy face unto the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy face: Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 21:2, Ezekiel 35:2
the Ammonites: Ezekiel 21:28-32, Genesis 19:38, Jeremiah 9:25, Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 25:21, Jeremiah 27:3, Jeremiah 49:1-6, Amos 1:13-15, Zephaniah 2:8-11
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 40:11 - all the Jews Jeremiah 40:14 - Ammonites Ezekiel 5:8 - in the Ezekiel 11:4 - General Ezekiel 25:10 - with the Ammonites Ezekiel 26:2 - Aha Ezekiel 28:21 - set Ezekiel 29:2 - set Ezekiel 38:2 - set Daniel 11:17 - set
Cross-References
And Abraham took another wife named Keturah.
And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah.
And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.
Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.
And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.
And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.
And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me?
And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob.
And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites,.... Who were of the posterity of Lot, implacable enemies of the Jews; who hated their religion, and envied their wealth and happiness; against these the prophet is bid to "set his face"; to look that way where they lived, and to put on a frowning countenance, and a menacing aspect: "strengthen thy face", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it; look boldly at them:
and prophesy against them; deliver out the following prophecy concerning them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It was a distinct part of scriptural prophecy to address pagan nations. In Isaiah Isa. 13–19, Jeremiah Jer. 46–51, and here Ezek. 25–32, one section is specially devoted to a collection of such prophecies. Every such prediction had the general purpose of exhibiting the conflict ever waging between the servants of God and the powers of the world, the struggle in which the Church of Christ has still to wrestle against her foes Ephesians 6:12, but in which she will surely prevail.
It was a distinct part of scriptural prophecy to address pagan nations. In Isaiah Isa. 13–19, Jeremiah Jer. 46–51, and here Ezek. 25–32, one section is specially devoted to a collection of such prophecies. Every such prediction had the general purpose of exhibiting the conflict ever waging between the servants of God and the powers of the world, the struggle in which the Church of Christ has still to wrestle against her foes Ephesians 6:12, but in which she will surely prevail.
This series of prophecies, with one exception, was delivered at the time of the fall of Jerusalem; some shortly before, and some shortly after, the capture of the city. They were collected together to illustrate their original purpose of warning the nations not to exult in their neighbor’s fall. Seven nations are addressed, which have had most contact with the children of Israel - on their eastern borders Moab and Ammon, to the south, Edom, on the south-west Philistia, northward Tyre (the merchant city) and the more ancient Sidon, and lastly Egypt, alternately the scourge and the false stay of the chosen people. The number “seven” is symbolic of completeness. “Seven” prophecies against Egypt the chief of “seven” nations, denote the completeness of the overthrow of the pagan power, the antagonist of the kingdom of God. While other prophets hold out to these pagan nations some prospect of future mercy (e. g., Isaiah 16:14; Jeremiah 49:6, Jeremiah 49:11), Ezekiel speaks of their complete ruin. He was contemplating “national” ruin. In the case of Jerusalem there would be national restoration, but in the case of the pagan no such recovery. The “national” ruin was irretrievable; the remnant to whom the other prophets hold out hopes of mercy were to find it as individuals gathered into God’s Church, not as nations to be again set up. Ezekiel does not, like other prophets, prophesy against Babylon; it was his mission to show that for the moment, Babylon was the righteous instrument of the divine wrath, doing God’s work in punishing His foes. In prophesying against foreign nations, Ezekiel often adopts the language of those who preceded him.
In Ezekiel 25:0, the four nations most closely connected with one another by geographical position and by contact, are addressed in a few brief sentences concluding with the same refrain - “Ye shall know that I am the Lord” (e. g. Ezekiel 25:5). This prophecy was delivered immediately after the capture of the city by Nebuchadnezzar, and so is later, in point of time, than some of the prophecies that follow it.
The Ammonites were inveterate foes of the descendants of Abraham.
Ezekiel 25:4
Men of the east - The wild wandering Arabs who should come in afterward upon the ruined land. The name was a common term for the nomadic tribes of the desert. Compare Isaiah 13:20.
Palaces - encampments. The tents and folds of nomadic tribes. After subjugation by Nebuchadnezzar Ezekiel 21:28, the land was subjected to various masters. The Graeco-Egyptian kings founded a city on the site of Rabbah Ezekiel 25:5, called Philadelphia, from Ptolemy Philadelphus. In later times, Arabs from the east have completed the doom pronounced against Rabbah.
Ezekiel 25:7
For a spoil - Or, for a portion.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 25:2. Set thy face against the Ammonites — We have already seen, Ezekiel 21:19, c., that when Nebuchadnezzar left Babylon he was in doubt whether he should besiege Riblath, the capital of the Ammonites, or Jerusalem, the capital of the Jews, first: and having used his divination. he was determined, by the result, to attack Jerusalem the first. He did so and the Ammonites, seeing the success of his arms, made friends with him, and exulted in the ruin of the Jews. God resents this, and predicts their downfall with that of Edom, Moab, and the Philistines. The fulfilment of this prediction is not noted in Scripture: but Josephus tells us, that about five years after the taking of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar turned his arms against the Ammonites and Moabites, and afterwards against Egypt; and having subdued those nations, he returned to Babylon. Joseph. Antiq., l. x., c. ii. Berosus states, as quoted by Josephus, contra App., that Nebuchadnezzar subdued Syria, Arabia, Phoenicia, and Egypt: and consequently, that he had brought under his dominion the Ammonites, Moabites, and Idumeans, who were included among the Philistines. See Calmet.
