Ezekiel 35:8

8 I will fill its mountains with the slain; those slain by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.^[a]

Ezekiel 35:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 35:8

And I will fill his mountains with his slain men
Not only Mount Seir, but all the rest of the mountains, in Idumea; where they shall flee for refuge, and the enemy shall pursue them, and slay them; and where their carcasses will fall in such numbers, as to cover the mountains with them; compare with this ( Revelation 19:18 Revelation 19:19 ) : in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they
fall that are slain with the sword:
expressive of the greatness and universality of the slaughter, that it should be a general one everywhere; hence rivers and fountains are said to become blood, through the number of the slain, ( Revelation 16:3 Revelation 16:4 ) .

Ezekiel 35:8 In-Context

6 therefore, as I live"-[this is] the declaration of the Lord God -"I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

8 I will fill its mountains with the slain; those slain by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

10 "Because you said: These two nations and two lands will be mine, and we will possess them-though the Lord was there-

Footnotes

• [a] Ezk 6:3