# Ezekiel 35 📖: Judgment on Mount Seir
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> [!info] Table of Contents
> [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]]
> [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]]
> [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]]
> [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]]
> [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
> [[#💬 Discussion Questions]]
> [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]]
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
> [[#📂 Internal Notes]]
## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Prophecy Against Mount Seir
[[#Verse 01.]] The Lord’s message came to me:
[[#Verse 02.]] “Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
[[#Verse 03.]] Say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir;
I will stretch out my hand against you
and turn you into a desolate ruin.
[[#Verse 04.]] I will lay waste your cities,
and you will become desolate.
Then you will know that I am the Lord!
[[#Verse 05.]] “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.
[[#Verse 06.]] Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
[[#Verse 07.]] I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.
[[#Verse 08.]] I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.
[[#Verse 09.]] I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
[[#Verse 10.]] “‘You said, “These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,” (although the Lord was there);
[[#Verse 11.]] therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger and your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.
[[#Verse 12.]] Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate; they have been given to us for food.”
[[#Verse 13.]] You exalted yourselves against me with your speech and hurled many insults against me—I have heard them all!
[[#Verse 14.]] This is what the Sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.
[[#Verse 15.]] As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you—you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom—all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary
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## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights
1. Mount Seir (35:2) refers to the mountainous region of Edom, south and southeast of the Dead Sea.
2. Edom's "ancient hostility" (35:5) goes back to the rivalry between Esau and Jacob (Genesis 27:41).
3. Edom handed fleeing Israelites over to the sword when Jerusalem fell (35:5; Obadiah 1:14).
4. Psalm 137:7 remembers Edom shouting, "Tear it down!" on the day Jerusalem fell.
5. Edom wanted the "two nations" (35:10), meaning Israel and Judah.
6. Chapter 35 is paired with chapter 36: the mountains of Seir are judged, and the mountains of Israel are restored.
7. Lamentations 4:21-22 also announces the end of Edom's gloating.
8. After the exile, Edomites moved into southern Judah, a region later called Idumea.
9. Herod the Great came from an Idumean family.
10. Edom as a nation eventually disappeared from history.
## 🧠 Chapter Summary
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## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter
Christ is the One who teaches us to love our enemies instead of rejoicing at their fall. Edom nursed an ancient hatred and celebrated Israel's ruin (35:5, 15), but Jesus calls His followers to love their enemies and bless those who curse them (Luke 6:27-28).
## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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## 💬 Discussion Questions
1. Edom held on to an "ancient hostility" (35:5). What happens to our hearts when we hold on to old grudges?
2. Edom wanted to take the land, though the Lord was there (35:10). How can jealousy blind us to God's presence and plans?
3. God heard every insult Edom spoke (35:12-13). How should knowing God hears our words shape what we say?
## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember
- 📖 verse 5: Edom had an ancient hostility and handed Israel over to the sword in its calamity.
- 📖 verse 10: Edom planned to take both nations, though the Lord was there.
- 📖 verse 15: Because Edom rejoiced over Israel's ruin, God will make Edom desolate.
## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference
- 🔗 [[Obadiah 01#Verse 10.|Obadiah 1:10-14]] - Edom's violence against his brother Jacob.
- 🔗 [[Psalm 137#Verse 07.|Psalm 137:7]] - Remember what Edom did on the day Jerusalem fell.
- 🔗 [[Genesis 27#Verse 41.|Genesis 27:41]] - Esau's hatred toward Jacob.
- 🔗 [[Lamentations 04#Verse 21.|Lamentations 4:21-22]] - Edom's punishment announced.
- 🔗 [[Luke 06#Verse 27.|Luke 6:27-28]] - Love your enemies.
## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
📝 SOAP: [[Ezekiel 35 - SOAP|Don’t Celebrate the Downfall of Others]]
## 📂 Internal Notes