Ezekiel 35:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 35

⁶Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

Ezekiel 35:6 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 63:2-6
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? …
Revelation 18:24
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
Psalms 109:16-17
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. …
Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Mount Seir was mentioned as partner with Moab in one of the threatenings we had before (Ezek. 25:8); but here it is convicted and condemned by itself, and has woes of its own. The prophet must boldly set his face against Edom, and prophesy particularly against it; for the God of Israel has said, O Mount Seir! I am against thee. Note, Those that have God against them have the word of God against th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. I will prepare thee unto blood--I will expose thee to slaughter. sith--old English for “seeing that” or “since.” thou hast not hated blood--The Hebrew order is, “thou hast hated not--blood”; that is, thou couldst not bear to live without bloodshed [Grotius]. There is a play on similar sounds in the Hebrew; Edom resembling dam, the Hebrew for “blood”; as “Edom” means “red,” the transition to “bl…