Ezekiel 35
Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from the early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
BookBook of Ezekiel
Hebrew Bible partNevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part7
CategoryLatter Prophets
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part26

Ezekiel 35 is the thirty-fifth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.[1][page needed] This chapter contains a prophecy against Mount Seir in Edom, to the south of Judah. Biblical commentator Susan Galambush pairs it with an oracle promising "restoration to the mountains of Israel" in the following chapter.[2]

Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 15 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008).[3] Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, that is, the Ezekiel Scroll from Masada (Mas 1d; MasEzek; 1–50 CE) with extant verses 11–15.[4][5][6]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[7][a]

Verse 2

"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it" (NKJV)[9]

Galambush suggests that "the choice of Mount Seir as the counterpart to the mountains of Israel is puzzling", noting that Ezekiel's oracle against Edom in Ezekiel 25:12–14 is "a brief, virtually pro forma condemnation of Israel's neighbour for taking advantage of Israel's broken condition. The motivation for locating a second, more vehement condemnation here is obscure.[2]

Verse 10

Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them’, although the Lord was there.[11]

This verse suggests that the Edomites planned to take possession of the promised land, Israel and Judah,[12] following the Israelites' deportation to Babylon.[2]

Verse 15

As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you;
you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it!
Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”’ (NKJV)[13]

Cross reference: Obadiah 1:12,15; Lamentations 4:21

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Ezekiel is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus.[8]

References

  1. ^ Theodore Hiebert et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  2. ^ a b c Galambush, S., Ezekiel in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001), The Oxford Bible Commentary Archived 2017-11-22 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 556-7
  3. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  4. ^ Fitzmyer, Joseph A. (2008). A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 149. ISBN 9780802862419. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  5. ^ Dead sea scrolls - Ezekiel
  6. ^ Mas 1d at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
  7. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  8. ^ Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 13. ISBN 978-0825444593.
  9. ^ Ezekiel 35:2
  10. ^ Bromiley 1995, p. 574.
  11. ^ Ezekiel 35:10: NKJV
  12. ^ Explained in the Expanded Bible at Ezekiel 35:10
  13. ^ Ezekiel 35:15

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