Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 35
Albert Barnes Commentary
Ezekiel 35
Albert Barnes Commentary
Ezekiel 35
"Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying," — Ezekiel 35:1 (ASV)
In Ezekiel 35-36, we see the devastation of Edom and the restoration of Israel. Edom was included among the nations against which Ezekiel prophesied (Ezekiel 25:12–14). But its fuller doom was reserved for this section, because Edom was one of the surrounding nations that profited at first by Judah’s fall, and because this contrast serves to distinctly highlight the better future designed for Israel. Edom is the God-hating, God-opposing power, always distinguished by its bitter hatred against Israel; and so the ruin of Edom is the triumph of Israel in the power of God.
"Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;" — Ezekiel 35:5 (ASV)
Shed blood — Omit “blood.” The marginal reading is better, that is, you have given up the children of Israel to the sword; you have scattered the children of Israel in confusion like stones poured down a mountainside (Micah 1:6).
That their iniquity had an end — Or, “of the iniquity of the end,” that is, the time when by the capture of the city the iniquity of Israel came to an end (Ezekiel 21:29).
"I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah." — Ezekiel 35:9 (ASV)
Return - Or, “be inhabited.”
"Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:" — Ezekiel 35:10 (ASV)
These two nations - Israel and Judah.
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