Ezekiel 25:2

World English Bible (2000)

Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שִׂ֥ים פָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י עַמּ֑וֹן וְהִנָּבֵ֖א עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

ben-ʾādām śîm pānêkā ʾel-bənê ʿammôn wə-hinnābēʾ ʿălêhem

Grammar Details

• *ben*-*ʾādām*: construct phrase, vocative - son of man
• *śîm*: qal imperative, masculine singular - set/place
• *pānêkā*: noun common masculine plural construct + 2ms suffix - your face
• *ʾel*-*bənê*: preposition + noun masculine plural construct - toward sons of
• *ʿammôn*: proper noun - Ammon
• *wə-hinnābēʾ*: waw conjunctive + niphal imperative, masculine singular - and prophesy
• *ʿălêhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - against them

Word Meanings

• *ben*-*ʾādām*: son of man/mortal human/prophet (as divine address)
• *śîm* *pānêkā*: set your face/turn toward/direct your attention
• *bənê* *ʿammôn*: sons of Ammon/Ammonites/people of Ammon

Referenced Verses

• Jer 49:1-6 : 1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in its cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh. 3 Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together. 4 Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me? 5 Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, from all who are around you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives. 6 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says Yahweh.
• Ezek 6:2 : 2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
• Amos 1:13-15 : 13 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it will devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind; 15 and their king will go into captivity, he and his princes together," says Yahweh.
• Zeph 2:8-9 : 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them. 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies. 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
• Ezek 20:46 : 46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
• Ezek 21:2 : 2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
• Ezek 21:28-32 : 28 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning; 29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end. 30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you. 31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy. 32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
• Ezek 35:2 : 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
• Gen 19:38 : 38 The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
• Jer 9:25-26 : 25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision: 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
• Jer 25:21 : 21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
• Jer 27:3 : 3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;