Ezekiel 35:7 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 35:7

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

BSB

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ASV

Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

KJV

Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

As the works of creation and common providence demonstrate that there is a God, so the care taken of Israel shows that Jehovah, the God of Israel, is that God alone, the true and living God.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְנָֽתַתִּי֙	ve.na.ta.Ti	and I will make	H5414 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַ֣ר	har	[the] mountain of	H2022 →
שֵׂעִ֔יר	se.'Ir	Seir	H8165 →
לְשִֽׁמְמָ֖ה	le.shi.Mah	into a desolation	H8077 →
וּשְׁמָמָ֑ה	u.she.ma.Mah	and a desolation	H8077 →
וְהִכְרַתִּ֥י	ve.hikh.ra.Ti	and I will cut off	H3772 →
מִמֶּ֖נּוּ	mi.Me.nu	from it	H4480 →
עֹבֵ֥ר	'o.Ver	[one who] passes through	H5674 →
וָשָֽׁב׃	va.Shav	and [one who] returns	H7725 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 35:3
and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
leads to
- Ezekiel 6:14
  I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 6:12
  Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
Through
Ezekiel 29:11
No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
leads to
- Ezekiel 32:13
  I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.
Through
Ezekiel 35:9
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
leads to
- Ezekiel 25:13
  therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman…
- Malachi 1:3–4
  but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Ezekiel 35:4
  I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Through
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.
leads to
- Ezekiel 7:24
  So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
- Jeremiah 44:6
  Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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06About Ezekiel

Where the connections lead

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