Ezekiel 25 KJV
Prophecy Against Ammon and Others
Ezekiel Chapter 25: Prophecy Against Ammon and Others
The chapter uniquely positions Edom's judgment as executed 'by the hand of my people Israel,' making the restored covenant people the direct agents of divine vengeance unlike the other oracles that rely on foreign invaders.
1he word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
8 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
12 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
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The chapter uniquely positions Edom's judgment as executed 'by the hand of my people Israel,' making the restored covenant people the direct agents of divine vengeance unlike the other oracles that rely on foreign invaders.
Moab's stated offense. Declaring Judah 'like unto all the heathen'. Attacks the theological premise of Israel's election, prompting God to sever Moab from 'the shoulder' of its territory in direct response to this denial of covenant distinction.
The reference to 'the men of the east' as instruments against Ammon points to nomadic Arab tribes historically used by Babylon, illustrating how Ezekiel blends immediate geopolitical realities with long-term fulfillment of judgment.
Philistia's oracle invokes the 'Cherethims' (Cretans), linking the Philistines to Aegean migration traditions and ancient Near Eastern records of Sea Peoples, grounding the prophecy in ethnic-historical memory rather than generic enmity.
The repeated gesture language. Clapping hands, stamping feet. Describes Ammon's malicious derision in a way that echoes ritual mockery motifs elsewhere in prophetic literature, framing emotional contempt itself as a covenant violation warranting reversal.
Commentary & Study Notes Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (1871) ยท Public Domain (Jer 49:1). when... profaned;... when... desolate;... when... captivity โ rather, "for... for... for": the cause of the insolent exultation of Ammon over Jerusalem. They triumphedโฆ
Classic verse-by-verse commentary on Ezekiel 25 from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871). Covers: Appropriately in the interval of silence as to the jews in the eight chapters, (twenty-fifth through thirty-second) ezekiel denounces judgments on the heathen world kingdoms.
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- (Jer 49:1). when... profaned;... when... desolate;... when... captivity โ rather, "for... for... for": the cause of the insolent exultation of Ammon over Jerusalem. They triumphed especially over the fall of the "sanctuary," as the triumph of heathenism over the rival claims of Jehovah. In Jehoshaphat's time, when the eighty-third Psalm was written (Ps 83:4, 7, 8, 12, "Ammon... holpen the children of Lot," who were, therefore, the leaders of the unholy conspiracy, "Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession"), we see the same profane spirit. Now at last their wicked wish seems accomplished in the fall of Jerusalem. Ammon, descended from Lot, held the region east of Jordan, separated from the Amorites on the north by the river Jabbok, and from Moab on the south by the Arnon. They were auxiliaries to Babylon in the destruction of Jerusalem (2Ki 24:2).
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- men of... east โ literally, "children of the East," the nomad tribes of Arabia-Deserta, east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea. palaces โ their nomadic encampments or folds, surrounded with mud walls, are so called in irony. Where thy "palaces" once stood, there shall their very different "palaces" stand. Fulfilled after the ravaging of their region by Nebuchadnezzar, shortly after the destruction of Jerusalem (compare Eze 21:22; Jer 49:1-28).
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