13Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. …
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? …
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-17)Three more of Israel’s ill-natured neighbours are here arraigned, convicted, and condemned to destruction, for contributing to and triumphing in Jerusalem’s fall. I. The Moabites. Seir, which was the seat of the Edomites, is joined with them (Ezek. 25:8), because they said the same as the Moabites; but they were afterwards reckoned with by themselves, Ezek. 25:12. Now observe, 1. What was the sin…
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