This evening, if you have your Bibles, turn with me to Ezekiel chapter 25. Ezekiel chapter 25. Up until this point, Ezekiel has been basically talking to the nation of Judah, the citizens of Jerusalem in particular, those who have been led into captivity, taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar that he is with, because he was taken into captivity as well, as well as those that remain in Judah and Jerusalem.
He has then had a hard message for them about why God allowed them to be taken into captivity and how he used Nebuchadnezzar as his tool of chastisement against Israel because of their lack of trust in him and their willingness to open their lives to the things of the world and the false gods that are in it and that they worship them instead of him. And so we see that this has been really the crux of his message so far throughout this portion of the book, this first half of the book. But now he comes in the next portion.
He’s going to deal with the nations that surround Israel and Judah. It’s interesting as you look at the nations that he’s going to speak of and how God is going to judge them because of what they have done at this particular time to the nation of Israel as a whole, specifically to the northern kingdom of Israel and to the southern kingdom of Judah under the divided kingdom. One of the things as you begin to look at this, you’ll see that it’s all the same players that are in place today.
It’s all the same places in the world that are Israel’s main enemies that are giving them the problems today. However, the people were much more identifiable as specific races at the time that Ezekiel lived. For example, tonight we’re going to look specifically at the first four groups that he mentions.
And three of these four have been known to Israel ever since Abraham. And we’re going to be looking at the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, and the Philistines. And those of you who were here when we studied through Genesis, you’ll recognize that these were all peoples that had their beginnings as nations in the area of where Israel is today and where Israel was at the time of Ezekiel.
And three of the four are related to Abraham. And yet we see that they were really enemies of Israel. Let’s just take a look at the beginning of verse 25.
Then we’ll go back and examine these nations. And I will make Rabah a stable for camels. And the Ammonites a couching place for flocks.
And ye shall know that I am the Lord. For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, thou hast clapped thine hands and stamped with thy feet and rejoiced in heart with all thy despise against the land of Israel. Behold, I therefore will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and I will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen, and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries, and I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God, because Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen. Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, and the glory of the country Beth-Jeshmath, and Baal-meon, and Chorathim, unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them the possession of the Ammonites, and may not be remembered among the nations. And I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord God, because Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah, taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended and revenged himself upon them. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate from demon, and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of the people of Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger, and according to my fury, and they shall know of my vengeance, saith the Lord God.
Thus saith the Lord God, because the Philistines have dwelt by revenge, and they have vengeance with a despiteful heart to destroy it for the old hatred. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherithims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast, and I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes, and they will know that I am the Lord, for I shall lay my vengeance upon them. Let’s just bow in prayer.
Lord, I pray that you just speak to us through your word. Help us to see that men may think they can get by with coming against that which you love and trying to destroy and kill it, the people of Israel. And men may come against that which you promised and try to destroy those promises.
But help us to understand that you are God, and your word will stand and your promises will be fulfilled. And Lord, help us to review it tonight as we look at these nations. This we ask in Jesus’ name.
Amen. Today, if you look at the map of Israel, you would see that on the east coast of Israel, there is a nation by the name of Jordan. Jordan consists and has the land that belonged to three of these four nations.
The northernmost nation would have been the Moabites, and they would have been right underneath what would be the Golan Heights today, where Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh and Gad had their inheritance. The Moabites would have been right underneath where they had their inheritance. Their inheritance would have come down to about the lower portion of the Sea of Galilee region, except it would be on the east side of the Jordan River.
If you go over there today, you will find that the land of the Moabites and the Ammonites are stacked on top of one another with the Moabites on the top portion, and the Ammonites underneath them. And they would be what would be basically the northern portion of Jordan and the middle portion of Jordan. The Edomites inherited the Mount Seir.
Mount Seir would have been in the lower portion of what is Jordan today. It would be where the Red Mountains are, where if you go to Jordan today, you can go to Petra. And they also have other cities where the Nabateans were brought in by the Edomites to do these carvings in the sandstones.
And they did beautiful carvings. They look just amazing. The only problem is the buildings aren’t real deep.
They look like these giant buildings, and then you walk in them, and they’re not as deep as our church, most of them. But they brought them in, and this is the land of Edom. So these three nations comprise what is Jordan today.
And if you would go to where all the problems are today on the west coast, Gaza. Gaza was one of the main areas of the Philistines. And the Philistines inhabited all the way from what would be the top of the Sinai Peninsula, all the way north, which would be north of Tel Aviv, and up by Joppa, north of Joppa.
That was the land of the Philistines when Israel came into the land. And these groups of people became enemies of Israel. And three of them definitely should have known better.
The first two that we’re going to talk about are the first two that he lists. He lists, first of all, the Ammonites. And he gives the reason why the Ammonites, he’s judging them.
In verse 3 he says, Hear the word of the Lord God, thus saith the Lord God, because thou saidest, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity. Now why would God be so upset? Because the Ammonites really were filled with joy, and said, Aha, look, look, their temple’s destroyed. Look, look, Israel’s taken into captivity.
Look, look, Judah’s being pursued by Nebuchadnezzar and taken into captivity. Why would God be so angry? Well, first of all, the Ammonites are descendants of the son of Lot. And a lot of times you don’t think of Lot having sons.
You almost think, well, they should be his grandsons. But they’re not his grandsons, because if you remember and go back in the book of Genesis, at the time that Lot came to the land of the Ammonites with Abraham, and then they were in the land, and what happened is both Lot’s possessions and Abraham’s possessions grew as God blessed them. Their flocks and herds grew, and their servants grew likewise.
And all of a sudden the servants of Lot began to have contention with the servants of Abraham, because there wasn’t enough land for all of their flocks as they tried to live together. And so Lot came to Abraham and he says, We need to do something. And so we need to divide.
We need to go our ways. And if you remember, Abraham said, You pick. Now, first of all, this is very interesting, because who is the elder? Abraham was Lot’s uncle.
He was the elder. He was to be the spiritual leader of the family when they came in there. Lot was his nephew, not his son, but he was still under Abraham’s authority.
And when he came in there, Abraham said, You pick. Well, Lot looked around and he went with his eyes. And he looked down into the valley, down what is the southern portion of the Dead Sea today, but at that time the topography was different.
Everything about the area was different. It was plush. It had lots of grass.
It had lots of water. And consequently, Lot said, That’s where I’m going. Now, why did he pick that? Because the other place was to go up in the mountains towards Mount Moriah and Mount Zion to the north of there and west.
And if you go to Israel today, one of the things you’ll see is those particular areas have lots of rocks. There are rocks everywhere. There’s nowhere that you can not find rocks in Israel.
And this is the land that Abraham got. But it’s amazing because even though Lot had what appeared to be the better choice, he made the wrong choice because he made it for the wrong reasons. And he chose to go there because of the lust of his eyes and the desires of his heart instead of consulting God.
Abraham said, I’ll go and God will be with me. And so Abraham went. The Lord blessed him.
And you remember the account of Lot. He went down to Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah, he ended up starting out living outside the city.
And then he moved towards the city. And then he ended up living in the city. And he ended up, it says, resting in the gates of the city.
That meant he actually became involved in political leadership of the city of Sodom. Now, just so to let you know, it doesn’t mean that if you’ve got a godly person in leadership that necessarily you can change the whole direction of the city, especially if he’s already compromised in his understanding of the power of God. And that’s where Lot was.
Because he had compromised in his understanding and trusting in God. He ended up, and Peter calls him, in his letter to the church, he calls Lot a righteous man. Lot, according to Peter and according to the word of God, was redeemed and saved.
However, Lot lost most of his family. And when God came to judge Sodom, because their sin was so great, He took Lot and his two daughters, unmarried daughters, and his wife out of the city. Now, we know that Lot had sons.
And he had sons-in-law, which means he had married daughters. None of them came out. And they were so enamored with Sodom and Gomorrah, even though the head of the family came out at the urging and really persistent urging of the angels, as they encouraged him to hurry, because the judgment was coming, the rest of his family perished.
And his own wife perished, because she turned back, and a lot of people said, well, why did God cause her? Because her heart was with Sodom. It wasn’t with the Lord. And she didn’t trust in the Lord.
And she looked for her children and the city more than she looked to God. Well, when Lot left Sodom, as God judged it, the Lord initially told him to go up in the mountains. Initially, he didn’t.
He begged the Lord, send me to this small city, Sor, and go there. And so the Lord allowed him to go there, but then shortly after he went there, he ended up leaving and going in the mountains. Now, when he got up there, the lack of faith that Lot had shown towards God throughout his life in not believing that God could provide, God couldn’t provide for him and Abraham, Lot would take the better, God wouldn’t provide in other aspects.
His daughters perceived this and they said, where are we going to find husbands? We’re living all by ourselves in a cave in the mountains. Where are we going to find husbands? And so they came up with this plot and they got their dad drunk. And the first night they got him drunk, the oldest daughter slept with him.
And she bore a son and his son was named Moab. The younger daughter did the same thing the next night and she bore a son and his name was Ammon. And so we had the Ammonites and the Moabites became the descendants of the sons of Lot.
And what is sad is they possessed the same characteristics that their mothers and their father to a degree possessed. They did not trust God. And instead, they began to look with envy upon the nation of Israel.
Instead of looking and being blessed with what God had provided for them and specifically when the nation of Israel came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership they had to pass by the area where the Moabites and the Ammonites lived. And when they did that the Moabite king became very concerned even though the Lord told Moses you will not go to war with these people because there is a certain degree of blessing that God had given to them and he said, Moses you will not go to war with them. And so Moses had no intention of going to war with them even though the Amorites lived in the same area and the Moabites and the Ammonites had taken over some of the Amorite kingdoms or some of their land and they had been at war with the Amorites.
Israel went to war with the Amorites and they defeated some of their kings some of their major kings Og and Sion and they took their land that was taken from them. The Moabites and the Ammonites didn’t believe that God would keep His promise that Moses said we are not going to do anything to you. And so Moab was going to attack Israel and they didn’t but instead they hired Balaam a false prophet and Balak the king of Moab hired Balaam to bring curses on Israel.
Later on, during the time of Ezekiel, Moab joined with the Ammonites and the Edomites to come against Judah. When Nebuchadnezzar invaded, people tried to escape into the lands of Moab and Ammon, but instead of offering refuge, these nations resisted them. They discouraged escape and showed no mercy. Even more, they mocked and ridiculed both God and His people.
When the Ammonites ridiculed the temple, it was not a small matter. They, along with the Moabites, worshiped false gods—Molech being one of them—offering even their own children in sacrifice. These were not just empty idols, but representations of demonic worship. So when they mocked the temple, they were mocking the true worship of God. In a broader sense, they were mocking the very means of salvation.
As the Scripture says, “Thus saith the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned…” They looked at the destruction of the temple and said, in essence, “Whose god is greater? The God of Israel, or our gods?” They failed to recognize that it was their very influence—and Judah’s sin in embracing those same false gods—that led to the temple’s profaning.
God had warned Israel: if they turned from Him, the land would become desolate. And when that desolation came, these nations mocked it. They said, “Look at it—it’s empty,” but they refused to see the cause. They did not recognize the hand of God’s judgment. Instead, they ridiculed both Israel and the Lord. Because of this, God declared that judgment would come upon them as well—judgment that would ultimately be carried out through Nebuchadnezzar.
The second group addressed is the Moabites. “Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen.” Now it is true that Judah had acted like the heathen, but instead of mourning over it, Moab’s attitude was dismissive: “They are no different than anyone else—so why should we honor their God?” That was the heart of their rebellion.
Yet these nations should have known who God was. Moab and Ammon came from Lot, Abraham’s nephew. They should have known the stories of God’s power—how He blessed Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They should have known of His faithfulness. But instead of honoring that truth, they rejected it and mocked it.
God had made it clear: obedience would bring blessing, and disobedience would bring desolation. Israel turned to other gods, and God removed them from the land. But instead of learning from this, Moab and Ammon mocked it, failing to see that they themselves were guilty of the same idolatry.
This corruption traces back even to the time of Balaam. When Balaam could not curse Israel, he advised Balak to corrupt them instead—by intermarriage and by leading them into idol worship. “Turn their hearts away from the Lord,” he said, and then God Himself would judge them. And that is exactly what happened.
Then we come to the third nation: Edom. Edom descended from Esau, the brother of Jacob. Esau had no regard for the things of God. Though he was entitled to the birthright—the spiritual leadership of the family—he despised it and traded it for a simple meal. In doing so, he turned his back on God.
His descendants followed in that same spirit, and in many ways became even worse than the Ammonites and Moabites. The Edomites, though closely related to Israel, were persistent enemies. They persecuted Israel continually. In the time of David, they were subdued because of their constant hostility.
Even when Jerusalem was under attack, the Edomites showed no compassion. Instead, they blocked escape routes and forced fleeing Israelites back into the hands of their captors, leading to death or captivity.
Their hostility continued throughout history. Herod the Great, who sought to kill the infant Messiah by ordering the death of all male children under two years old, was an Edomite. This reveals a deep, ongoing opposition to the purposes of God.
These nations—Moab, Ammon, and Edom—should have known the Lord. Instead, they rejected Him, mocked Him, and opposed His people. Because of this, God declared judgment upon them.
And as Scripture also records, because of their actions, the Moabites and Ammonites were forbidden from entering the congregation of the Lord—even to the tenth generation.
These were the, they, Esau was the literal son of Isaac and Rebekah, a twin brother to Jacob, who would become, inherit the birthright and become the one through whom the line of the Messiah would come. As you look at this, and see what Esau did, what did he do? Well, he, his descendants persecuted the Israelites even to a greater extent than the Moabites and Ammonites, as long as they were even a nation. And you come to the point at the time of David, and David invaded Edom, killed many of the Edomites, put them to tribute, because they were constantly causing problems for Israel.
And we see that when Israel, when Jerusalem was being attacked, and people were trying to escape, the Edomites prevented them from escaping, and caused them to be turned back so they’d meet their, meet those who had come to bring them into captivity or kill them. This was the Edomites, the ones that were, that should have been the closest to Israel, and yet they even became stronger. You’ll see that Edomites throughout history, Herod the Great was an Edomite.
What did Herod the Great do? Herod the Great, when he heard that the king of the Jews had been born in Bethlehem, he sent out his soldiers to kill every baby under two years of age, every male baby under two years of age, to an attempt to kill the Messiah. They were driven by the power of Satan, and they had no desire for the things of God. Now, the Moabites and the Ammonites were told by the Lord because of the things that they did, that they would not be allowed to be part of the congregation of the tenth generation.
Why, what, what, because of these things that they did. The Ammonites were in agreement with the Moabites when they were, when Balak was doing all of that, and, and we see even more with attitudes. If you look at scripture, people say, well, how could Ruth become one who’s in the line of Jesus? She was a Moabite.
God said no Moabites could marry any Jews. Well, first of all, and I, he said, he put a time limit on it, ten generations. Secondly, God looks at the heart.
Ruth’s heart was different than even the Moabites of her day. She had a sister-in-law named Orpha, Orpha rather. And Orpha was close to Naomi, their mother-in-law as well.
They both, they both had married sons of Naomi. They both married Jewish young men, and their father-in-law died, and then their husbands died. So it was just Naomi and these two young women left.
And Naomi has no means of support because she has no family to support her other than these two daughter-in-laws, and they cannot support her because the culture is an agrarian culture. You needed a man to support you. She says, I’m going to go back to my family in Israel.
And so she tells her daughter-in-laws, I’m going. Goodbye. Orpha cries, hugs her, and goes back to her family.
She had no real desire and had not seen in Naomi’s life, her faith and trust in God. And she really didn’t want to change her, her, the value she’d grown up in. She was perfectly content to go back and become part of the Moabite culture again.
Ruth, on the other hand, clung on to Naomi, would not let her go. And Naomi tried to encourage her, you need to go back. What can I give you? I can’t give you another husband.
I can’t bear other children. I can’t bear another man. There won’t be anybody for you.
And Naomi says, what? I will go where you go. Your land will become my land and your God, my God. Her heart was different.
When she got to Israel, she did everything Naomi told her and more to make provision for them during the time of harvest. And Boaz, who was Ruth’s or Naomi’s relative, and really the second in line to be kinsman redeemer. He wasn’t the first, but they had a kinsman redeemer.
And the kinsman redeemer, if you came, he could redeem your land. If your husband and sons had died, he could redeem your land. But then he had to take you into his family and make provision for you.
Well, the one who was in first line for kinsman redeemer was willing to do that as far as when it came to taking the land and even making provision for Naomi. However, Boaz, through a series of events, had seen Ruth. He’d seen her character.
He seen a godly woman that she was. He seen her love for Naomi. He had made provision so that extra grain was left for her to reap as they were given the leftovers that the reapers had missed during the harvest.
And then Naomi told her to go and lay at his feet to let him know that she was willing to accept his position as the kinsman redeemer of the family. It had nothing to do with any in our culture. We immediately think of always laying at his feet at night must be something sexual.
No, it wasn’t. It was a sign that she was willing to place herself in that position to accept him as kinsman redeemer. However, he couldn’t do it because there’s one guy ahead of him.
So he went into the public, into the gate of the community where the decisions were made. He met the kinsman redeemer and he says, Naomi, you are the kinsman redeemer of Naomi. And the guy says, yes, I’m going to get her land.
I’m going to get all that. He says, but you must take Ruth as your wife. And this guy goes, what? I don’t want that.
You can have her. And so the bargain was made at the gate. She was taken off and handed.
And that was a sign that the rights of the first kinsman redeemer had been given to the second kinsman redeemer, which was Boaz. Boaz marries Ruth. And out of that line come David.
He becomes the great grandson of Boaz. And it’s interesting because if you look at all of this, God said he was going to judge Moabites and the Ammonites for what they did. But the judgment was only going to be to the 10th generation.
And then they could go back and marry. But with the Edomites, he never said that. You can go read the book of Obadiah and you’ll see that the Edomites were strongly, strongly chastised.
And God said he’s going to wipe them out. And because they hated him so much that they attempted to destroy all that God had intended for mankind in the Messiah. Now, the final group is the Philistines.
And I want to look at those quickly. The Philistines, remember, lived over where? In Gaza. Gaza has been in the news a lot.
That was Philistine where they landed. They originally came from the islands in the Mediterranean Sea. And a lot of historians believe they may have been out of Egypt, Egyptians ending up on those islands and inhabiting them.
If that were the case, they would also have a thing against Israel. Because Pharaoh had a thing against God and the Egyptians, the vast majority of Egyptians, although there was a minority that came out with Israel that was redeemed by the blood of the lamb in Egypt and came out as proselytes, if you would. But the majority of the Egyptians were always at odds with Israel.
And the thing is, Israel always turned to Egypt for solutions instead of to God. They wanted to go back to the world instead of to God. The Philistines were that type of people.
They were worldly people. Their main God was Dagon. And they were always causing problems, the majority of the time, for Israel.
They became the main thorn in the side of King Saul. And then they were still a thorn in the side of King David. David was fighting the Philistines at the end of his life when he couldn’t fight anymore.
And his men had to prevent him from going to battle because he couldn’t fight. He was growing weak. And they went out to fight the Philistines on his behalf.
The Philistines were always an enemy because they were an adversary of God. And God raised up judges against them to judge them. He raised up David and even Saul to battle them.
And the Philistines were constantly at war with Israel. The Philistines came against the outlying cities during the time that Nebuchadnezzar was invading Judah and Jerusalem. And what Nebuchadnezzar didn’t conquer, the Philistines conquered.
Who Nebuchadnezzar didn’t kill, the Philistines killed. And we see that they enjoyed that. They did not want anything to do with the God of the Jews.
And the Philistines, it says, are going to be judged. And today, you can’t find anybody who is a Philistine. Palestinians are not Philistines.
Palestinians are of Arab descent. They’re probably, in likelihood, they could be descendants of the sons of other sons of Abraham through Keturah, Ishmael, or descendants of Moabites and Ammonites. The Moabites and the Ammonites are not identifiable peoples today.
There is no land of Moab. There is no land of Ammon today. There’s Jordan and it has some of the same cities and some of the same things that we’ve talked about, but it’s not there.
There is no Edom anymore. However, in the last days, something interesting is going to occur. God says he’s going to judge them here and the judgment is going to be strong.
But in the last days, what is Jordan today, which is the land of the Ammonites and the Moabites and Petra, Seir, which was given to Edom, is going to be the place that the Antichrist is not going to take over. For whatever reason, and we know the reason is really God prevents him from doing it. He takes over the rest of the world and those that won’t come.
He fights against them, but that particular area is left. During the midpoint of the tribulation, when the abomination of desolation occurs, and the Antichrist reveals who he truly is, and he begins to desecrate the temple, and he begins to come against all the Jewish people, and he begins to persecute them and says that they will escape. And the place they’re going to escape is the one place in the world that the Antichrist will not have total control over.
And that’s Jordan today, the land of the Moabites, the Ammonites, and the land of Seir. And so it’s interesting as you look at this, the Israelites’ enemies have not changed during the years. They’ve got the same nations surrounding them.
The descendancy of the people has been made so it’s less identifiable. And that’s what’s interesting too. It’s interesting if you look at the Jewish people, they are identifiable as a people.
You can’t go over there and pull out the Arabs. You know that they’re all intermarried with these various peoples, and they’re Arabs, and they’re Semites, just like the Jews. They’re descendants of Abraham, just like the Jews.
But the problem is they’re not descendants of Isaac and Jacob. And genetically, there are markers genetically that can identify Jewish people. There are not markers to identify Ammonites, and Moabites, and Edomites, and Philistines.
You can identify Jewish people today. And God preserved them as he said he would because they are assigned to the world of his power. The Jewish people are unique.
And even in the midst of their chastisement and judgment, these other nations would become almost non-nations. But Israel would remain an identifiable people, would remain a nation until 70 A.D. Judah would. And the Israeli people and people will tell you there’s the lost 10 tribes of Israel.
They aren’t lost. God’s identified them and knows who they are. And they’re bringing them home back to the land.
Let’s just close in prayer. Lord, I pray that you just help us to understand why God brought judgment against these four nations. And then understand, as we just briefly looked at what’s going to happen in the last days.
That the nation of Jordan, which comprises the land area where the Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites lived, is going to be preserved as a safe haven for the Jewish people that are left alive when the Antichrist turns against them and they flee to escape. And they’ll escape to this area. Lord, now I pray that you just help us to understand and be encouraged and see that you are God.
Just as you said that as you brought judgment upon them, it was so that they would know you are the Lord, not their gods and not them. This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.
The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; 3 and say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; 4 behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 6 For thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 7 behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
8 Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; 9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, 10 unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. 11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
12 Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 13 therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.
15 Thus saith the Lord God; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; 16 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. 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.