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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 25:14 - 25:14
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by ... my people Israel - namely, by Judas Maccabeus. The Idumeans were finally, by compulsory circumcision, incorporated with the Jewish state by John Hyrcanus (see Isa 34:5; Isa 63:1, etc.; 1 Maccabees 5:3). So complete was the amalgamation in Christ’s time, that the Herods of Idumean origin, as Jews, ruled over the two races as one people. Thus the ancient prophecy was fulfilled (Gen 25:23), “The elder shall serve the younger.”