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Ezekiel 25

Ezek. 25:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
God
Yhovih (Hebrew #3069)
a variation of 3068 (used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as 430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce 3068 as 136)
KJV usage: God.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vee'
; Because that Edom
'Edom (Hebrew #123)
from 122; red (see Gen. 25:25); Edom, the elder twin-brother of Jacob; hence the region (Idumaea) occupied by him
KJV usage: Edom, Edomites, Idumea.
Pronounce: ed-ome'
Origin: or (fully) oEdowm {ed-ome'}
t hath dealt
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
against the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of Judah
Yhuwdah (Hebrew #3063)
celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
KJV usage: Judah.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-daw'
Origin: from 3034
by ρtaking
naqam (Hebrew #5358)
to grudge, i.e. avenge or punish
KJV usage: avenge(-r, self), punish, revenge (self), X surely, take vengeance.
Pronounce: naw-kam'
Origin: a primitive root
vengeance
naqam (Hebrew #5359)
revenge
KJV usage: + avenged, quarrel, vengeance.
Pronounce: naw-kawm'
Origin: from 5358
, and hath greatly
'asham (Hebrew #816)
a primitive root; to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish
KJV usage: X certainly, be(-come, made) desolate, destroy, X greatly, be(-come, found, hold) guilty, offend (acknowledge offence), trespass.
Pronounce: aw-sham'
Origin: or mashem {aw-shame'}
offended
'asham (Hebrew #816)
a primitive root; to be guilty; by implication to be punished or perish
KJV usage: X certainly, be(-come, made) desolate, destroy, X greatly, be(-come, found, hold) guilty, offend (acknowledge offence), trespass.
Pronounce: aw-sham'
Origin: or mashem {aw-shame'}
, and revenged
naqam (Hebrew #5358)
to grudge, i.e. avenge or punish
KJV usage: avenge(-r, self), punish, revenge (self), X surely, take vengeance.
Pronounce: naw-kam'
Origin: a primitive root
himself upon them;
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2 Chron. 28:17‑18• 17And again the Edomites came and smote Judah, and carried away captives.
 18And the Philistines invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the south of Judah, and took Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Socho and its dependent villages, and Timnah and its dependent villages, and Guimzo and its dependent villages; and they dwelt there. (2 Chron. 28:17‑18)
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Obad. 10• 10Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. (Obad. 10)
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revenging revengement.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Because.
Ezek. 25:8• 8Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations, (Ezek. 25:8)
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Ezek. 35:1‑15• 1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
 2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
 3and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.
 4I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
 5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword, in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
 6therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will certainly appoint thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.
 7And I will make mount Seir a desolation and an astonishment, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth;
 8and I will fill his mountains with his slain. In thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy water-courses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
 9I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
 10Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas Jehovah was there:
 11therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will even do according to thine anger and according to thine envy, as thou hast done out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.
 12And thou shalt know that I Jehovah have heard all thy reproaches, which thou hast uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
 13And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
 14Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee a desolation.
 15As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolated, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be a desolation, O mount Seir, and all Edom, the whole of it: and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 35:1‑15)
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2 Chron. 28:17‑18• 17And again the Edomites came and smote Judah, and carried away captives.
 18And the Philistines invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the south of Judah, and took Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Socho and its dependent villages, and Timnah and its dependent villages, and Guimzo and its dependent villages; and they dwelt there. (2 Chron. 28:17‑18)
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Psa. 137:7• 7Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Lay it bare, Lay it bare, down to its foundation! (Psa. 137:7)
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Jer. 49:7‑22• 7Concerning Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom spent?
 8Flee, turn back, dwell deep down, ye inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I visit him.
 9If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a gleaning? If thieves by night, they would destroy only till they had enough.
 10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, that he is unable to hide himself: his seed is wasted, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
 11Leave thine orphans, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
 12For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and thou indeed, shouldest thou be altogether unpunished? Thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.
 13For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
 14I have heard a rumour from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations:--Gather yourselves together, and come against her and rise up for the battle.
 15For behold, I have made thee small among the nations, despised among men.
 16Thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart, hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy nest high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.
 17And Edom shall be an astonishment: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, because of all the plagues thereof.
 18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, and their neighbour cities, saith Jehovah, no one shall dwell there, neither shall a son of man sojourn therein.
 19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will make them suddenly run away from it; and who is a chosen man whom I shall appoint over her? For who is like me? and who will assign me a time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
 20Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, which he hath taken against Edom, and his purposes which he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: The little ones of the flock shall certainly draw them away; he shall certainly make their habitation desolate for them.
 21The earth quaketh at the sound of their fall; there is a cry, the sound whereof is heard in the Red sea.
 22Behold, he shall come up, and fly as an eagle, and spread forth his wings against Bozrah; and at that day the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. (Jer. 49:7‑22)
taking vengeance.
Heb. revenging, revengement.
Gen. 27:41‑42• 41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand, and I will slay my brother Jacob.
 42And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebecca. And she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, comforts himself that he will kill thee. (Gen. 27:41‑42)
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Amos 1:11‑12• 11Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity; and his anger did tear continually, and he kept his wrath for ever.
 12And I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. (Amos 1:11‑12)
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Obad. 10‑16• 10Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
 11In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
 12But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress.
 13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither shouldest thou have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
 14and thou shouldest not have stood on the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape, nor have delivered up those remaining of him in the day of distress.
 15For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy recompence shall return upon thine own head.
 16For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. (Obad. 10‑16)
• Should not Edom have been grieved for his brother? Rather did he seize their ruin by the Gentile stranger to avenge himself for his old grudge. (“Notes on Ezekiel 25” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath made himself very guilty, and revenged himself upon them,