Ezekiel Chapter 35 verse 2 Holy Bible
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
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Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,
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Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
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Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
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Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
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`Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Set thy face against Mount Seir. The mountainous are in between the Dead Sea and the Elanitic Gulf, which formed the original settlement of Esau and his descendants (Genesis 36:9), is here put for the land of Edom, as the land in turn stands for its people (Ezekiel 25:8). Although already the prophet has pronounced a threatening doom against Edom (Ezekiel 25:12-14), he once more directs against, it the judgments of Heaven, on this occasion viewing it as the representative of all those hostile world-powers which from the first had been opposed to Israel as the theocratic nation, and which even then, by their antagonism, hindered her return (cf. Isaiah 63:1-8).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Mount Seir.--This poetical designation of the Edomites from the land which they inhabited is common in Scripture (Genesis 36:8-9; Deuteronomy 2:1; Deuteronomy 2:5; 1Chronicles 4:42, &c.). The land included the whole mountainous region between the Dead Sea and the Elanitic Gulf, or eastern branch of the Red Sea. The earlier denunciation of the Edomites had in view their historical relations to Israel; this, on the other hand, as already said--like Isaiah 34; Isaiah 63:1-6--while still keeping this historical relation in view, regards them also as representative of the world's hostility to the covenant people of God. This appears from the fact that the desolation of Edom, itself but a small province, is put in contrast (Ezekiel 35:14) with the rejoicing of the whole earth, and that in Ezekiel 36:5 (and generally Ezekiel 35:3-7) Edom is coupled with "the residue of the heathen." For the phrase "set thy face against," see Ezekiel 13:17; and on Ezekiel 35:3, comp. Ezekiel 6:14. . . .
