Ezekiel 25:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.e ”

• Ezekiel 25:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The Philistines occupying lands to the south of Judah were a Hamite race Genesis 10:14 , but of a different branch from the Canaanites. They were a powerful people never dispossessed by the Israel...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the (f) Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. (f) Which were certain ga...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the Philistines . Compare Psalms 60:8 ; Psalms 60:9 ; Psalms 108:9 ; Psalms 108:10 ; Isaiah 11:14 . cut off the Cherethims . Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6), for emphasis. Heb...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. I will cut off the C...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  § 1. Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia These four nations were the neighbours of Israel on the E., SE., and SW. respectively, and are dealt with in their geographical order. Ammon and Moab are deno...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Cherethims. — The Cherethim were a portion of the Philistines living on their southern coast ( 1 Samuel 30:14 ; Zephaniah 2:5 ), and are sometimes put for the whole nation. The name is supposed by...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  AMMON, MOAB, EDOM, AND PHILISTIA Ezekiel 25:1-17 THE next eight Chapter s (25-32) form an intermezzo in the Book of Ezekiel. They are inserted in this place with the obvious intention of separa...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The last division of the prophecy deals with the subject of the ultimate restoration of the chosen nation. It falls into three sections. The first has to do with the nations, the second with the nati...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Philistia makes up the last brought to judgment in this Chapter, for hatred to God's people; and not the least in the soreness of it. Reader! do not overlook the sweet consolations such reviews hold...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore thus saith the Lord God ,.... Because of such wretched malice and despiteful usage: behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines ; as is foretold, Jeremiah 47:1 , and I w...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. Ver. 16. I will cut off t...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge The Philistines being borderers upon the Jews, were their ancient enemies, from the very time of the judges downward, more particularly in the time of...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Various Nations Threatened. B. C. 590.       8 Thus saith the Lord G OD ; Because that Moab...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The Cherethims; either a name for all the Philistines, 1 Samuel 30:14 , or else the principal soldiers, expert bowmen, the strength of Philistia. The remnant, which had escaped the sword of Sa...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Oracle Against Philistia ( Ezekiel 25:15-17 ). As against Ammon, Moab and Edom the Philistines, who inhabited the coastal plain, were a foreign nation with no ties of kinship with Israel. Sinc...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  PREDICTIONS OF JUDGMENTS UPON THE AMMONITES, MOABITES, EDOMITES, AND PHILISTINES. (Chap. 25) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In chs. 25–32, we come to a new group of prophecies. They are predictions of judgment u...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 25:5 . I will make Rabbah a stable for camels a couching-place for flocks. Nebuchadnezzar destroyed this ancient city about four years after the fall of Jerusalem. Ptolemy Philadelphus reb...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The section on which we now enter—the great "parenthesis," as I have called it, of Ezekiel's prophetic work—contains messages to the seven nations that were most closely connected wit...

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Against Idumea and Philistia

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 30:14 ; 2 Samuel 15:18 ; Ezekiel 25:13 ; Ezekiel 25:7 ; Jeremiah 47:4 ; Zephaniah 2:4 ; Zephaniah 2:5-15

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• Ezekiel 25:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The Cherethim — The bowmen, the strength of Philistia. The remnant — Who had escaped the sword of Samuel, David, Hezekiah, and of Psammetichus king of Egypt.

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