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Against Idumea and Philistia
v. 12. Thus saith the Lord God, Because that Edom, whose people were direct descendants of Jacob's brother Esau, hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, or, "by exercising vindictive revenge," and hath greatly offended, heaping guilt upon itself, and revenged himself upon them, still smarting under the feeling of having been cheated of the right of the first-born, Cf Gen_27:41,
v. 13. therefore thus saith the Lord God, I will also stretch out Mine hand upon Edom, in a stern and comprehensive punishment, and will cut off man and beast from it, in a general destruction; and I will make it desolate from Teman, the southernmost part of the country; and they of Dedan, of the northern section of the country, shall fall by the sword, that is, the entire land would become subject to the punishment of the Lord.
v. 14. And I will lay My vengeance upon Edom by the hand of My people Israel, not only in a physical subjection brought about at the time of the Maccabees, but also in the more complete conquest in the Messianic times, when at least some of the inhabitants of this country bowed down before the true God; and they shall do in Edom, in its physical subjection, according to Mine anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance, saith the Lord God, the manner in which he takes revenge upon such as will not bow down to his rule.
v. 15. Thus saith the Lord God, Because the Philistines, Judah's neighbors to the southwest, along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, have dealt by revenge, in vindictive malice, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, in a perpetual war of spite, to destroy it for the old hatred, on account of the enmity which reached back into the earliest history of the relations between the two nations,
v. 16. therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will stretch out Mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, another name for the Philistines on account of their Cretan descent, and destroy the remnant of the seacoast. Cf Amo_1:8; Isa_14:30; Jer_47:4.
v. 17. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes, or, "in punishments of fury"; and they shall know that I am the Lord when I shall lay My vengeance upon them, forcing them to concede the unlimited range of His power, so that they would have to confess, even though most unwillingly, that lie alone is the true God.