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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Ezekiel 35"
description: "CHAPTER 35   :-. JUDGMENT ON
EDOM. Another feature of Israel"
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url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/ezekiel/35"
---

CHAPTER 35

. JUDGMENT ON
EDOM.
Another feature of Israel's
prosperity; those who exulted over Israel's humiliation, shall
themselves be a "prey." Already stated in ; properly repeated here in full detail, as a commentary
on [Ezekiel 34:28](../../../kjv/ezekiel/34/28). The Israelites
"shall be no more a prey"; but Edom, the type of their most
bitter foes, shall be destroyed irrecoverably.

**2. Mount Seir**—that is, Idumea
([Genesis 36:9](../../../kjv/genesis/36/9)). Singled out as badly
pre-eminent in its bitterness against God's people, to represent all
their enemies everywhere and in all ages. So in [Isaiah 34:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/5);
[Isaiah 63:1-4](../../../kjv/isaiah/63/1-4), Edom, the
region of the greatest enmity towards God's people, is the ideal
scene of the final judgments of all God's foes. "Seir"
means "shaggy," alluding to its rugged hills and forests.

**3. most desolate**—literally,
"desolation and desolateness" (, &c.). It is only in their national character of foes
to God's people, that the Edomites are to be utterly destroyed. A
*remnant* of Edom, as of the other heathen, is to be "called
by the name of God" ([Amos 9:12](../../../kjv/amos/9/12)).

**5. perpetual hatred**— ([Psalms 137:7](../../../kjv/psalms/137/7);
[Amos 1:11](../../../kjv/amos/1/11); [Obadiah 1:10-16](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/10-16)).
Edom perpetuated the hereditary hatred derived from Esau against
Jacob.
**shed*****the blood of,******* c.—The literal translation is better. "Thou hast *poured*
out the children of Israel" namely, like water. So [Psalms 22:14](../../../kjv/psalms/22/14);
[Psalms 63:10](../../../kjv/psalms/63/10), *Margin;* [Psalms 63:10](../../../kjv/psalms/63/10). Compare [2 Samuel 14:14](../../../kjv/2-samuel/14/14).
**by the force of the
sword**—literally, "by" or "upon the hands of the
sword"; the sword being personified as a devourer whose "hands"
were the instruments of destruction.
**in the time that their
iniquity had an end**—that is, had its consummation ([Ezekiel 21:25](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/25);
[Ezekiel 21:29](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/29)). Edom consummated his
guilt when he exulted over Jerusalem's downfall, and helped the foe
to destroy it ([Psalms 137:7](../../../kjv/psalms/137/7);
[Obadiah 1:11](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/11)).

**6. I will prepare thee unto blood**—I
will expose thee to slaughter.
**sith**—*old* English
for "seeing that" or "since."
**thou hast not hated blood**—The
*Hebrew* order is, "thou hast hated not—blood"; that
is, thou couldst not bear to live without bloodshed [GROTIUS].
There is a play on similar sounds in the *Hebrew; Edom*
resembling *dam,* the *Hebrew* for "blood"; as
"Edom" means "red," the transition to "blood"
is easy. Edom, akin to blood in name, so also in nature and acts;
"blood therefore shall pursue thee." The measure which Edom
meted to others should be meted to himself ([Psalms 109:17](../../../kjv/psalms/109/17);
[Matthew 7:2](../../../kjv/matthew/7/2); [Matthew 26:52](../../../kjv/matthew/26/52)).

**7. cut off . . . him that
passeth**—that is, every passer to and fro; "the highways
shall be unoccupied" ([Ezekiel 29:11](../../../kjv/ezekiel/29/11);
[Judges 5:6](../../../kjv/judges/5/6)).

**9. shall not return**—to their
former state ([Ezekiel 16:55](../../../kjv/ezekiel/16/55));
shall not be restored. The *Hebrew* text (*Chetib*) reads,
"shall not *be inhabited*" (compare [Ezekiel 26:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/26/20);
[Malachi 1:3](../../../kjv/malachi/1/3); [Malachi 1:4](../../../kjv/malachi/1/4)).

**10.** So far from being allowed to
enter on Israel's vacated inheritance, as Edom hoped ([Ezekiel 36:5](../../../kjv/ezekiel/36/5);
[Psalms 83:4](../../../kjv/psalms/83/4); [Psalms 83:12](../../../kjv/psalms/83/12);
[Obadiah 1:13](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/13)), it shall be that he
shall be deprived of his own; and whereas Israel's humiliation was
temporary, Edom's shall be perpetual.
**Lord was there**—
([Ezekiel 48:35](../../../kjv/ezekiel/48/35); [Psalms 48:1](../../../kjv/psalms/48/1);
[Psalms 48:3](../../../kjv/psalms/48/3); [Psalms 132:13](../../../kjv/psalms/132/13);
[Psalms 132:14](../../../kjv/psalms/132/14)). Jehovah claimed
Judea as His own, even when the Chaldeans had overthrown the state;
they could not remove Him, as they did the idols of heathen lands.
The broken sentences express the excited feelings of the prophet at
Edom's wicked presumption. The transition from the "two nations
and two countries" to "it" marks that the two are
regarded as one whole. The last clause, "and Jehovah was there,"
bursts in, like a flash of lightning, reproving the wicked
presumption of Edom's thought.

**11. according to thine anger**—
([James 2:13](../../../kjv/james/2/13)). As thou in anger
and envy hast injured them, so I will injure thee.
**I will make myself known
among them**—namely, the Israelites. I will manifest My favor to
them, after I have punished thee.

**12, 13. blasphemies . . . against .
. . Israel . . . against me**—God regards what is done against
His people as done against Himself ([Matthew 25:45](../../../kjv/matthew/25/45);
[Acts 9:2](../../../kjv/acts/9/2); [Acts 9:4](../../../kjv/acts/9/4);
[Acts 9:5](../../../kjv/acts/9/5)). Edom *implied,* if
he did not express it, in his taunts against Israel, that God had not
sufficient power to protect His people. A type of the spirit of all
the foes of God and His people ([1 Samuel 2:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/3);
[Revelation 13:6](../../../kjv/revelation/13/6)).

**14.** ([Isaiah 65:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/13);
[Isaiah 65:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/14)). "The whole
earth" refers to *Judea and the nations that submit themselves
to Judea's God;* when these rejoice, the foes of God and His
people, represented by Edom *as a nation,* shall be desolate.
Things shall be completely reversed; Israel, that now for a time
mourns, shall then rejoice and for ever. Edom, that now rejoices over
fallen Israel, shall then, when elsewhere all is joy, mourn, and for
ever ([Isaiah 65:17-19](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/17-19); [Matthew 5:4](../../../kjv/matthew/5/4);
[Luke 6:25](../../../kjv/luke/6/25)). HAVERNICK
loses this striking antithesis by translating, "According to the
joy of the whole land (of Edom), so I will make thee desolate";
which would make [Ezekiel 35:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/35/15) a
mere repetition of this.

**15.** ([Obadiah 1:12](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/12);
[Obadiah 1:15](../../../kjv/obadiah/1/15)).

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