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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 25:14
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by fie hand of my people Israel, &c.] This was fulfilled in the times of the Maccabees, when Judas Maccabins overthrew and conquered them, ``Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.” (1 Maccabees 5:3) and when Hyrcanus took their cities, and subdued them, and they became Jews, as Josephusf402 relates; though Kimchi thinks this refers to future time, and is yet to be accomplished; and it is, by the ancient Jewsf403, understood of the times of the Messiah: some choose to understand the phrase, by the hand of my people Israel, the same hand by which judgment was inflicted upon Israel; suggesting that by the same hand vengeance would be inflicted on the Edomites, namely, by the Babylonians: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; that is, shall execute all the anger and fury, or all that punishment in anger and fury, which the Lord in righteous judgment has appointed them to, and has determined shall be performed upon them, by the children of Israel or the Babylonians, as his instruments: and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God; the meaning is, they shall feel it, and be sensible of it, and know that it comes from the Lord himself; full of resentment against them, and highly displeased at their behaviour towards his people Israel.
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