John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 25:13

John Gill Commentary

Ezekiel 25:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Ezekiel 25:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword." — Ezekiel 25:13 (ASV)

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because of such base and barbarous usage, from a people that were originally brethren: I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it;

by the army of Nebuchadnezzar, by the sword of the Chaldeans, and by famine and pestilence, and such like sore judgments; in which the hand of God is manifestly seen:

and I will make it desolate from Teman; a very principal city of Edom, so called from Teman, the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, (Genesis 36:15) it lay in the south of the land of Idumea; the Targum renders it, "from the south":

and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword; of the Babylonians; this was another city of Edom, it lay in the north of that country; so that hereby is signified that destruction should go through it from the southern to the northern parts of it.