Ezekiel 25:2
New International Version
“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

New Living Translation
“Son of man, turn and face the land of Ammon and prophesy against its people.

English Standard Version
“Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Berean Standard Bible
“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

King James Bible
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;

New King James Version
“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them.

New American Standard Bible
“Son of man, set your face against the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them,

NASB 1995
“Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them,

NASB 1977
“Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them,

Legacy Standard Bible
“Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon and prophesy against them

Amplified Bible
“Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Christian Standard Bible
“Son of man, face the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Son of man, turn your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

American Standard Version
Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
‘Son of man, set your face against the children of Amon, and prophesy upon them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Son of man, set thy face steadfastly against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Ammon

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou shalt prophesy of them.

English Revised Version
Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Son of man, turn to the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Ammon.

International Standard Version
"Son of Man, turn your attention to the descendants of Ammon and rebuke them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;

Literal Standard Version
“Son of man, set your face toward the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them;

Majority Standard Bible
“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

New American Bible
Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

NET Bible
"Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

New Revised Standard Version
Mortal, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

New Heart English Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward the people of Ammon, and prophesy against them:

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;

World English Bible
“Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them.

Young's Literal Translation
'Son of man, set thy face unto the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Prophecy Against Ammon
1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them. 3Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,…

Cross References
Jeremiah 49:1
Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: "Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Milcom taken possession of Gad? Why have his people settled in their cities?

Ezekiel 21:2
"Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel

Ezekiel 25:1
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 28:21
"Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.

Amos 1:13
This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as surely as I live," declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah--a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them."


Treasury of Scripture

Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;

thy face

Ezekiel 6:2
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

Ezekiel 20:46
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

the Ammonites

Ezekiel 21:28-32
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering: …

Genesis 19:38
And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Jeremiah 9:25,26
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; …

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Ezekiel 25
1. God's vengeance, for their insolence against the Jews, upon the Ammonites
8. upon Moab and Seir
12. upon Edom
15. and upon the Philistines














(2) Set thy face against the Ammonites.--It has already been mentioned that the utterances against the four contiguous nations of Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia are all contained in one prophecy, and that this prophecy was evidently spoken after the fall of Jerusalem, and, consequently, after the date of Ezekiel 26:1. The Ammonites, descended from Lot's incest with his younger daughter, had been for centuries persistent enemies of Israel. They had joined the Moabites in their oppression of Israel under Eglon (Judges 3:13), and in a later attack had been subdued by Jephthah (Judges 11:32-33); they fought with extreme cruelty and insolence against Saul (1Samuel 11:2-11); they insulted and warred against David (2Samuel 10:1-6), and were utterly crushed by him (2Samuel 12:31); their idolatries were favoured by Solomon (1Kings 11:7); uniting with Moab and Edom, they attacked Judah under Jehoshaphat (2Chronicles 20:1-25), but utterly failed, and were tributary to his descendant, Uzziah (2Chronicles 26:8); again they fought with Jotham, and were reduced by him to heavy tribute (2Chronicles 27:5); and not long before this time they had occupied the vacant cities of Gad (Jeremiah 49:1). Now they had joined Nebuchadnezzar's army against Judah (2Kings 24:2). From Ezekiel 25:3 it appears that their hostility arose not only from national jealousy, but from an especial hatred against the Jewish religion (comp. also Psalm 83:7). They are the frequent subject of prophetic denunciation (Isaiah 11:14; Jeremiah 49:1-6; Amos 1:13-15; Zephaniah 2:8-11). . . . Verse 2. - Set thy face against the Ammonites. The main facts that are essential to a right understanding of the message to this people, not to speak of their long-standing enmity against Israel for many centuries, are

(1) that they formed part of Nebuchadnezzar's army, as allies or tributaries, against Jehoiakim (2 Kings 24:2);

(2) that afterwards they, with other neighboring nations, intrigued with Zedekiah against the Chaldean king (Jeremiah 27:3), so that it was an open question whether his first act of vengeance should fall on Rabbath-Ammon or Jerusalem (Ezekiel 21:20). In Ezekiel 21:28-32, written not long before, Ezekiel had uttered his prediction of the coming judgment. Here we read that when they saw that Jerusalem had been laid waste, they, like Edom (Psalm 137:7), exulted in her downfall. Earlier traces of cruelty and outrage are found in Psalm 83:7; Amos 1:13 - 15; Zephaniah 2:8-11. We learn from Jeremiah 40:14 that the name of the Ammonite king at this time was Baalis.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Son
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of man,
אָדָ֕ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

set
שִׂ֥ים (śîm)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

your face
פָּנֶ֖יךָ (pā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

against
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the Ammonites
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

and prophesy
וְהִנָּבֵ֖א (wə·hin·nā·ḇê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5012: To prophesy, speak, by inspiration

against them.
עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ (‘ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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