28:20-23
This section finishes with a prophecy against Sidon. Tyre and Sidon often go together. This is more like the short earlier prophecies, but an unusual feature is that no reason for the judgement is given. Perhaps it was reckoned that they could work it out for themselves by now!
The effect of the judgement is that God would display His glory, and will be proved to be holy. What does this mean? It means that it would be shown that God is the one that ultimately counts, and that He will be shown to be just in all His ways.
He would send a plague against them, and there would be death in the streets. People would die of both the plague and the sword.
28:24,25
We then get a wider purpose to all this judgement. “No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbours”, so they too would know that God is the Lord. Now remember that Israel and Judah have spent most of the book of Ezekiel so far being castigated for their sins. Yet God is still working for their salvation. Yes, the people would be scattered, but then they would be gathered up again. They would live in their own land, and would do so in safety. And they “will know that I am the Lord their God”.
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