> [[ezekiel-24|← Previous]] | [[ezekiel-00|TOC]] | [[ezekiel-26|Next →]] --- # Ezekiel, Chapter 25 ## Chapter 25 **Against Ammon.** 1 The word of the LORD came to me: ^ezekiel-25-1 2 Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them. ^ezekiel-25-2 3 Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the LORD! Thus says the Lord G OD: Because you jeered at my sanctuary when it was desecrated, at the land of Israel when it was destroyed, and at the house of Judah when they went into exile, ^ezekiel-25-3 4 therefore I am giving you to people from the east as a possession. They shall set up their encampments among you and pitch their tents in your midst; they shall eat your produce and drink your milk. ^ezekiel-25-4 5 And I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and all of Ammon into a grazing place for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. ^ezekiel-25-5 6 For thus says the Lord G OD: Because you rejoiced over the land of Israel with scorn in your heart, clapping your hands and stamping your feet, ^ezekiel-25-6 7 therefore, see, I am stretching out my hand against you and giving you up as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and wipe you out of the lands. I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the LORD. ^ezekiel-25-7 **Against Moab.** 8 Thus says the Lord G OD: Because Moab said, “See! the house of Judah is like all the other nations,” ^ezekiel-25-8 9 therefore, I am exposing the whole flank of Moab with its cities, the jewels of its land: Beth-jesimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim. ^ezekiel-25-9 10 I will hand it over, along with the Ammonites, to the people from the east that it may not be remembered among the nations. ^ezekiel-25-10 11 I will execute judgment upon Moab that they may know that I am the LORD. ^ezekiel-25-11 **Against Edom.** 12 Thus says the Lord G OD: Because Edom took vengeance on the house of Judah and incurred terrible guilt by taking vengeance on them, ^ezekiel-25-12 13 therefore thus says the Lord G OD: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it human being and beast alike. I will turn it into ruins from Teman to Dedan; they shall fall by the sword. ^ezekiel-25-13 14 I will put my vengeance against Edom into the hands of my people Israel; they will deal with Edom in accord with my furious anger. Thus they shall know my vengeance!—oracle of the Lord G OD. ^ezekiel-25-14 **Against the Philistines.** 15 Thus says the Lord G OD: Because the Philistines acted vengefully and exacted vengeance with intentional malice, destroying with undying hostility, ^ezekiel-25-15 16 therefore thus says the Lord G OD: See! I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and wipe out the remnant on the seacoast. ^ezekiel-25-16 17 Thus I will execute great acts of vengeance on them, punishing them furiously. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I wreak my vengeance on them. ^ezekiel-25-17 \* (25:1] – [32:32) These chapters form a body of oracles directed against foreign nations. They follow the prophet’s condemnation of Judah and oracles announcing its destruction. The unit precedes the announcement of Judah’s salvation in chaps. [33] – [48]. \* (25:1] – [17) Ezekiel condemns four nations for their reactions to Judah’s destruction and exile: Ammon to the east (vv. [2] – [7]); Moab to the southeast (vv. [8] – [11]); Edom to the south (vv. [12] – [14]); Philistia to the west (vv. [15] – [17]). Their hostility was not unprovoked; at one time or another, each one either lost territory to Israel or had been under Israelite control. \* (25:4) People from the east: nomadic tribes from the desert east of Ammon and Moab (cf. [[isaiah-11|Is 11]]:14; [Jer 49:28]), often a threat to outlying towns and villages. \* (25:9) The whole flank of Moab: the eastern edge of the Moabite plateau, perhaps lightly fortified because the vast desert to the east provided a natural barrier to invasion. \* (25:16) Cherethites: people from the island of Crete in the Aegean, the Philistines’ point of origin. In [Zep 2:5], the terms “Philistines,” “Cherethites,” and “seacoast people” describe the same group of people. a. (25:2) [Jer 49:1] – [6]; [Am 1:13] – [15]; [Zep 2:8] – [11]. b. (25:4) [Dt 28:33], [51]. c. (25:7) [Am 1:14] – [15]. d. (25:8) [Sir 50:26]; [Is 15] – [16]; [Jer 48]; [Am 2:1] – [3]. e. (25:11) [Am 2:1] – [3]. f. (25:12) [2 Sm 8:13] – [14]; [2 Chr 28:17]; [Ob 11] – [14]. g. (25:13) cf. [Ez 35]; [Is 34:5] – [17]; [63:1] – [6]; [Jer 49:7] – [11]. h. (25:14) cf. [Ez 35:11]. i. (25:15) [[isaiah-14|Is 14]]:29 – [31]; [Jer 47:1] – [7]; [Am 1:6] – [8]; [Zep 2:4] – [7]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[ezekiel-24|← Previous]] | [[ezekiel-00|TOC]] | [[ezekiel-26|Next →]]