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Ezekiel 35:2

"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Mountains;   Seir, Mount;   The Topic Concordance - Desolation;   Enemies;   Hate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sela;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Seir, Mount;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   Obadiah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, face Mount Seir and prophesy against it.
Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, set your face against Mount Se`ir, and prophesy against it,
King James Version
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
English Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it
New Century Version
"Human, look toward Edom and prophesy against it.
Amplified Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir (Edom), and prophesy against it
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, Set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesie against it,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it
Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it
Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Edom
Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, turn your face against Mount Se‘ir; prophesy against it,
Darby Translation
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, look toward Mount Seir and speak against it for me.
George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, set your face against mount Seir and prophesy against it,
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Edom.
Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it,
Literal Translation
Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, turne thy face towarde the mount Seir, prophecy vpon it,
American Standard Version
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophecie against it,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, set thy face toward the mount Seir, prophecie against it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
English Revised Version
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
World English Bible
Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, sette thi face ayens the hil of Seir; and thou schalt profesie to it, and thou schalt seie to it,
Update Bible Version
Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
New English Translation
"Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
New King James Version
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
New Living Translation
"Son of man, turn and face Mount Seir, and prophesy against its people.
New Life Bible
"Son of man, look toward Mount Seir and speak against it,
New Revised Standard
Mortal, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man Set thy face against Mount Seir, - and prophesy against it;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:
Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Se'ir, and prophesy against it,
Young's Literal Translation
`Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Contextual Overview

1Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,3and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste. 4I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster, at the final stage of their punishment, 6therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you. 7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go. 8I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines. 9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

set: Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 21:2, Ezekiel 25:2, Isaiah 50:7, Ephesians 6:19

mount: Ezekiel 25:8, Genesis 32:3, Genesis 36:8, Genesis 36:9, Deuteronomy 2:5, Joshua 24:4, 2 Chronicles 20:10, 2 Chronicles 20:22, 2 Chronicles 20:23, 2 Chronicles 25:11-14

and prophesy: Ezekiel 25:12-14, Ezekiel 32:29, Psalms 83:3-18, Isaiah 34:1-17, Isaiah 63:1-6, Jeremiah 9:25, Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 49:7-22, Lamentations 4:21, Lamentations 4:22, Amos 1:11, Amos 1:12, Obadiah 1:1, Obadiah 1:10-14

Reciprocal: Genesis 33:14 - unto Seir Jeremiah 49:13 - a desolation Ezekiel 38:2 - set

Cross-References

Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised."
Genesis 31:19
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father's household idols.
Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken Laban's household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Genesis 35:3
Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone."
Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
Genesis 35:7
There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him as he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:10
And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; you will no longer be called Jacob, but your name will be Israel." So God named him Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man set thy face against Mount Seir,.... Which had its name from Seir the Horite, who first possessed it; and was succeeded in it by Esau and his posterity, the Edomites; see Genesis 36:8 Deuteronomy 2:12, so that the country of Edom or Idumea is here intended, and the inhabitants of it; who are put for the enemies of the church and people of God in general, as these were the enemies of Israel and Judah; and particularly for Rome, which, as it was spiritually called Egypt and Sodom, so it may be called Edom, as it often is by the Jews: now the prophet is bid to turn his face towards this mountain or country, and look sternly at it, and severely threaten it. The Targum is,

"take up a prophecy against it;''

which is expressed in the next clause:

and prophesy against it; foretell things contrary to it, which relate to its destruction, as follows:

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 35:2. Set thy face against Mount Seir — That is, against the Edomites. This prophecy was probably delivered about the time of the preceding, and before the destruction of Idumea by Nebuchadnezzar, which took place about five years after.

Calmet supposes that two destructions of Idumea are here foretold; one by Nebuchadnezzar, and the other by the Jews after their return from their captivity.


 
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