Ezekiel Chapter 35 verse 10 Holy Bible
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:
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Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:
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Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas Jehovah was there:
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Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
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Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
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Because of thy saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And Jehovah hath been there;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Because thou hast said. The second ground of Edom's punishment lay in this, that she had presumptuously as well as confidently exclaimed, not concerning Idumea and Judah, as Jerome conjectured, but concerning Israel and Judah when she saw them stripped of their inhabitants, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; "it" meaning either the region over which the two countries extended, or, as Schroder suggests, Jerusalem their common capital (see Ezekiel 36:2; and comp. Psalm 83:4-12). And what constituted the gravamen of Edom's offense was that she had so spoken, whereas (or, though) the Lord was there. It is not necessary, with the LXX. and Kliefoth, to read "is there," to guard against the supposition that Ezekiel designed to suggest that, though Jehovah had formerly been in the land, he was there no longer. But, in point of fact, Jehovah had for a time withdrawn his visible presence from the temple and the city (see Ezekiel 10:18; Ezekiel 11:22, 23), though he had by no means renounced his right to the land; and Edom's error lay in not regarding this, but in acting as if Jehovah had departed from Israel for ever (Havernick); or (better, "and") in thinking he could appropriate to himself what really belonged to Jehovah, viz. the territory out of which Israel and Judah had been cast (Hengstenberg).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) These two countries shall be mine.--In Ezekiel 35:3-9 the sin charged upon Edom is its hatred of Israel; in Ezekiel 35:10-15, its desire to possess itself of Israel's inheritance. The two nations and countries are, of course, the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.Whereas the Lord was there.--This fact brings out the real sin. Edom desired Israel's possessions, not as it might have desired those of other nations, but knowing that this was the peculiar inheritance given by God to His people, and which it thought ought to have been given to itself as the elder branch, thus arraying itself in direct opposition to God.
