[[Ezek-35]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Ezek-34]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Ezek-36]] --- ### The Lord Yahweh says: "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh." *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God predicts the total and imminent destruction of the region of Mount Seir (Edom), declaring that its cities will be laid waste as judgment for their hostility toward Israel. *Historical context*: Following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, Edom was increasingly pressured by nomadic Nabataean tribes. By the 4th century BCE, the Nabataeans had seized the territory of Mount Seir, forcing the Edomites to migrate westward into southern Judea. *Related to*: ### therefore, as I live," says the Lord Yahweh, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you. Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God predicts a cycle of violence and bloodshed that will follow the Edomites as a consequence of their lack of compassion and their history of violence against the children of Israel. *Historical context*: The descendants of the Edomites (the Idumeans) faced repeated military disasters, including conquest by the Hasmonean king John Hyrcanus in the 2nd century BCE and catastrophic losses during the First Jewish-Roman War (66-73 CE), which led to their eventual slaughter and disappearance from history. *Related to*: ### I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. ... As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The permanent end of Edom as a sovereign nation and the lasting, uninhabited state of its ancestral territory. *Historical context*: Historians and archaeologists confirm that the Edomite national identity was entirely extinguished by the end of the 1st century CE. Furthermore, the original heartland of Edom—the mountains of Seir—remains a barren and desolate landscape today, with major ancient settlements like Petra and Bozrah existing only as archaeological ruins, fulfilling the 'perpetual' nature of the predicted desolation. *Related to*: [[Ezek-35#v3|Ezekiel 35:3]]-15 --- #ai_prophecy