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Ezekiel 25:12

in Ezekiel 25

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

KJV

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;

This verse in Ezekiel 25

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

on Ezekiel 25:12-14

(Vers. 12, 13, et seqq.) Thus says the Lord God: Because Edom has acted vengefully against the children of Judah and has incurred guilt by taking vengeance upon them, therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. I will make it a desolation from Teman, and Dedan shall fall by the sword.

This site's exposition

hath greatly offended, and revenged himself

on Ezekiel 25:12-14

Edom's charge is vengeance carried out, dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself, language the Minor Prophets fill out further in Obadiah's account of Edom standing aside and even helping when Jerusalem fell. The sentence against Edom stands apart from the other three: Teman and Dedan are named directly, and the Lord says he will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, judgment carried out through Israel's own hand rather than a foreign army as with Ammon and Moab. Henry connects the detail to Israel's later subjugation of Edom under the Hasmonean kings, one people used as the instrument against the neighbor who had turned on it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But the Jews had a divine warrant to reign over the Edomites, for that therefore they ought not to have made reprisals; and it was the more disingenuous for them to retain the old enmity when God had particularly commanded his people to forget it. 7 , Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite. The judgments threatened against them for this sin.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כֹּ֤הthus

    kohH3541577 times

  • אָמַר֙he says

    ʾamarH5595305 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136440 times

  • יְהוִ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3069306 times

  • יַ֣עַןbecause

    yaanH328299 times

  • עֲשׂ֥וֹתacted

    asotH62132628 times

  • אֱד֛וֹםEdom

    ʾedomH12399 times

  • בִּנְקֹ֥םby avenging itself

    binkomH535835 times

  • נָקָ֖םvengeance

    nakamH535917 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH10042046 times

  • יְהוּדָ֑הJudah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • וַיֶּאְשְׁמ֥וּand they have become guilty

    vaiye'shemuH81635 times

  • אָשׁ֖וֹםcontinually <be guilty>

    ʾashomH81635 times

  • וְנִקְּמ֥וּand they have avenged themselves

    venikemuH535835 times

  • בָהֶֽם׃on them

    vahem

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 137:7

    Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

    it leads to

    • Lamentations 4:21–22

      So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

    • Ezekiel 25:12–14

      This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

    • Jeremiah 49:7–22

      Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

    • Obadiah 1:10–14

      Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

    • 1 Samuel 15:2

      This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they ambushed them on their way up from Egypt.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 25:8

    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 48:1–47

      Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and…

    • Isaiah 15:1–9

      This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

    • Jeremiah 25:21

      Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

About Ezekiel

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.