Ezekiel 25:2

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Summary

Ezekiel 25:2

Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;

Thy face

The ammonites

General references

Ezekiel 11:4

Bible References

Thy face

"Thou son of man, turn thy face to the mountains of Israel, that thou mayest prophesy unto them,

"Thou son of man, set thy face toward the south, and speak to the south wind,

"Thou son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, speak against the Sanctuary, and prophesy against the land of Israel, say to the land of Israel,

"Thou son of man, turn thy face toward the mount Seir, prophesy upon it,

The ammonites

"And thou, O son of man, prophesy and speak, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God to the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemy,' speak thou, 'The sword, the sword is drawn forth already to the slaughter, and scoured that it glistereth

And the younger bare a son and called him Benammi, which is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

"Behold, the time cometh," sayeth the LORD, "that I will visit all them whose foreskin is uncircumcised.

the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites;

and send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: and that by the messengers, which shall come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah the king of Judah,

As concerning the Ammonites, thus the LORD sayeth, "Hath Israel no children, or is he without a heir? Why hath your king then taken Gad in? Wherefore doth his people dwell in his cities?

Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of the children of Ammon, I will not spare them: because they ripped up the women great with child in Gilead, to make the borders of their lands the wider.

I have heard the despite of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon: how they have shamefully intreated my people, and magnified themselves within the borders of their land.

General references

Therefore shalt thou prophesy unto them: yea, prophesy shalt thou unto them, O son of man."