Ezekiel 35:10

“Because thou hast said, these two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, &c.] Meaning either Idumea he was now possessed of, and Israel he hoped to be, upon the people of it being carried captive; or rather the two nations of Israel and Judah, and their countries; which he pleased himself with would fall into his hands, as next heir to them; the posterity of his brother being dispossessed of them. This may denote the claim that Rome makes upon each of the Protestant nations and countries; and which she will think all her own, and that she is in the possession of them, upon the slaying of the witnesses; and when she will say, “I sit a queen, and am no widow”,…”

“So far from being allowed to enter on Israel's vacated inheritance, as Edom hoped (Eze 36:5; Psa 83:4, Psa 83:12; Oba 1:13), it shall be that he shall be deprived of his own; and whereas Israel's humiliation was temporary, Edom's shall be perpetual. Lord was there-- (Eze 48:35; Psa 48:1, Psa 48:3; Psa 132:13-14). Jehovah claimed Judea as His own, even when the Chaldeans had overthrown the state; they could not remove Him, as they did the idols of heathen lands. The broken sentences express the excited feelings of the prophet at Edom's wicked presumption. The transition from the "two nations and two countries" to "it" marks that the two are regarded as one whole. The last clause, "and Jehovah…”

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“Though - Though God was with Israel. Ezekiel 35:11”

“thou hast: Eze 36:5; Psa 83:4-12; Jer 49:1; Oba 1:13 whereas: or, though, Eze 48:35; Psa 48:1-3, Psa 76:1, Psa 132:13, Psa 132:14; Isa 12:6, Isa 31:9; Zep 3:15; Zac 2:5 Ezekiel 35:11”