Ezekiel 25:2
in Ezekiel 25“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
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ASV
Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:
KJV
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
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This verse in Ezekiel 25
Commentary
5 notes on this verseSon of man, set thy face against the Ammonites,.... Who were of the posterity of Lot, implacable enemies of the Jews; who hated their religion, and envied their wealth and happiness; against these the prophet is bid to "set his face"; to look that way where they lived, and to put on a frowning countenance, and a menacing aspect: "strengthen thy face", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it; look boldly at them: and prophesy against them; deliver out the following prophecy concerning them.
This site's exposition
the word of the LORD came to me
on Ezekiel 25:1-3
The Lord sends Ezekiel to face the Ammonites directly, and the charge is glee. They said Aha against the sanctuary when it was profaned, against the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah. Henry reads the sin as malice rejoicing in a neighbor's calamity.
This site's exposition
set your face against the Ammonites
The Ammonites descended from Lot through his younger daughter, and their land lay east of the Jordan. In chapter 21 the king of Babylon stood at a fork in the road, choosing between Rabbah and Jerusalem. Jerusalem fell first, and Ammon gloated.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Chapter 25: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, set your face against the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them. And you shall say to the sons of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord God!
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Set thy face against the Ammonites - We have already seen, Eze 21:19, etc., that when Nebuchadnezzar left Babylon he was in doubt whether he should besiege Riblath, the capital of the Ammonites, or Jerusalem, the capital of the Jews, first: and having used his divination. he was determined, by the result, to attack Jerusalem the first. He did so and the Ammonites, seeing the success of his arms, made friends with him, and exulted in the ruin of the Jews. God resents this, and predicts their downfall with that of Edom, Moab, and the Philistines.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And the word of nevuah from before Hashem was with me, saying:
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בֶּן־ | ben- | O son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אָדָ֕ם | ʾadam | humankind | H120 → | 551 times |
| שִׂ֥ים | sim | set | H7760 → | 584 times |
| פָּנֶ֖יךָ | paneikha | face your | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| בְּנֵ֣י | benei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עַמּ֑וֹן | amon | Ammon | H5983 → | 106 times |
| וְהִנָּבֵ֖א | vehinave' | and prophesy | H5012 → | 115 times |
| עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ | ʾaleihem | on them | H5921 → | 5755 times |
בֶּן־O son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
אָדָ֕םhumankind
ʾadamH120 →551 times
שִׂ֥יםset
simH7760 →584 times
פָּנֶ֖יךָface your
paneikhaH6440 →2123 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of
beneiH1121 →4930 times
עַמּ֑וֹןAmmon
amonH5983 →106 times
וְהִנָּבֵ֖אand prophesy
vehinave'H5012 →115 times
עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃on them
ʾaleihemH5921 →5755 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Ezekiel 6:2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 19:9
With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
- Ezekiel 36:1
“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
- Ezekiel 33:28
I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.
- Ezekiel 20:46
“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
- Ezekiel 37:22
I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never…
- Ezekiel 19:9
Through
Ezekiel 35:2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
it leads to
- 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,”
- Genesis 32:3
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Ezekiel 6:2
“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
- Ezekiel 25:8
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.