10Because 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. …
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-15)Here is, I. A further account of the sin of the Edomites, and their bad conduct towards the people of God. We find the church complaining of them for setting on the Babylonians, and irritating them against Jerusalem, saying, Rase it, rase it , down with it, down with it (Ps. 137:7), inflaming a rage that needed no spur; here it is further charged upon them that they triumphed in Jerusalem’s ruin a…
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