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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
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, let your face be turned to the children of Ammon, and be a prophet 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
(vi) Avraham took another wife, whose name was K'turah.
The sons of Midyan were ‘Eifah, ‘Efer, Hanokh, Avida and Elda‘ah. All these were descendants of K'turah.
Then Avraham breathed his last, dying at a ripe old age, an old man full of years; and he was gathered to his people.
Hadad, Teima, Y'tur, Nafish and Kedmah.
(Maftir) These are the sons of Yishma‘el, and these are their names, according to their settlements and camps, twelve tribal rulers.
This is how long Yishma‘el lived: 137 years. Then he breathed his last, died and was gathered to his people.
Yishma‘el's sons lived between Havilah and Shur, near Egypt as you go toward Ashur; he settled near all his kinsmen. Haftarah Hayyei-Sarah: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 1:1–31 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Hayyei-Sarah: Mattityahu (Matthew) 8:19–22; 27:3–10; Luke 9:57–62 Here is the history of Yitz'chak, Avraham's son. Avraham fathered Yitz'chak. Yitz'chak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, the daughter of B'tu'el the Arami from Paddan-Aram and sister of Lavan the Arami, to be his wife. Yitz'chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant. The children fought with each other inside her so much that she said, "If it's going to be like this, why go on living?" So she went to inquire of Adonai , who answered her, "There are two nations in your womb. From birth they will be two rival peoples. One of these peoples will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger." When the time for her delivery came, there were twins in her womb. The first to come out was reddish and covered all over with hair, like a coat; so they named him ‘Esav [completely formed, that is, having hair already]. Then his brother emerged, with his hand holding ‘Esav's heel, so he was called Ya‘akov [he catches by the heel, he supplants]. Yitz'chak was sixty years old when she bore them. The boys grew; and ‘Esav became a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman; while Ya‘akov was a quiet man who stayed in the tents. Yitz'chak favored ‘Esav, because he had a taste for game; Rivkah favored Ya‘akov. One day when Ya‘akov had cooked some stew, ‘Esav came in from the open country, exhausted, and said to Ya‘akov, "Please! Let me gulp down some of that red stuff — that red stuff! I'm exhausted!" (This is why he was called Edom [red].) Ya‘akov answered, "First sell me your rights as the firstborn." "Look, I'm about to die!" said ‘Esav. "What use to me are my rights as the firstborn?" Ya‘akov said, "First, swear to me!" So he swore to him, thus selling his birthright to Ya‘akov. Then Ya‘akov gave him bread and lentil stew; he ate and drank, got up and went on his way. Thus ‘Esav showed how little he valued his birthright.
"Look, I'm about to die!" said ‘Esav. "What use to me are my rights as the firstborn?"
Ya‘akov said, "First, swear to me!" So he swore to him, thus selling his birthright to Ya‘akov.
When Husham died, Hadad the son of B'dad, who killed Midyan in the field of Mo'av, reigned in his place; the name of his city was ‘Avit.
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.
