{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/eze025.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/eze025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/eze025.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nEzekiel 25:3\n \neze 25:3\nAha - When thou shouldest have pitied, thou didst proudly insult over my people. \nEzekiel 25:4\n \neze 25:4\nThe men of the east - The Arabians, associates of Nebuchadnezzar, who recompensed their service, with giving them this country when it was conquered, as it was five years after the desolation of Jerusalem. \nEzekiel 25:5\n \neze 25:5\nRabbah - The royal city, called since Philadelphia from the king of Egypt who built it. The Ammonites - The land they dwelt in. \nEzekiel 25:7\n \neze 25:7\nKnow - Thus God will bring those that were strangers to him into an acquaintance with him, and it will be a blessed effect of their calamities. How much better is it, to be poor and know God, than to be rich, and ignorant of him? \nEzekiel 25:8\n \neze 25:8\nSeir - The seed of Esau, the Edomites. Seir was the mountain where they first planted themselves. Is like - Are no more a select people than others. \nEzekiel 25:9\n \neze 25:9\nThe side - That part of his country which was best fortified. Bethjeshimoth - An ancient city; it was a fortress toward the desert, which watched lest any should make an inroad on the country. \nEzekiel 25:10\n \neze 25:10\nWith the Ammonites - As I have given Ammon, so I will with them give Moab to the Chaldeans, who will give it to the Arabians. \nEzekiel 25:13\n \neze 25:13\nTeman - A country in the southern coast of Edom. Dedan - Adjoining to Edom. \nEzekiel 25:15\n \neze 25:15\nIt - Israel. \nEzekiel 25:16\n \neze 25:16\nThe Cherethim - The bowmen, the strength of Philistia. The remnant - Who had escaped the sword of Samuel, David, Hezekiah, and of Psammetichus king of Egypt.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Ezekiel: Ezekiel Chapter 25","type":"page"}