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You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
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A Judgment of Annihilation
Commentators unanimously explain that this prophecy against the Ammonites describes their complete and permanent destruction. Unlike Israel, whose judgment included a promise of restoration, Ammon would be utterly consumed like fuel and its memory erased from history. Scholars like John Gill and Charles Ellicott note this was fulfilled, as the Ammonite people vanished.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The third word of judgment. The king of Babylon’s march upon Judea and upon the Ammonites. Destruction is to go out not on Judah only, but also on …
19th Century
Anglican
Shalt be no more remembered. —Ammon should be utterly destroyed, as fuel in the fire; the life-blood of the nation should be poured out, a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall be for fuel for the fire Easily consumed, as briers and thorns cast into a furnace; such are wicked men to the …
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