Verse 2

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

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  • Jer 49:1-6 : 1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus says the LORD: Does Israel have no sons? Does he have no heir? Why then does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in its cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will cause the alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it will be a desolate heap, and her villages will be burned with fire. Then Israel will inherit those who were his heirs, says the LORD. 3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed: cry out, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourselves with sackcloth; mourn, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king will go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together. 4 Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? Who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me? 5 Behold, I will bring fear upon you, says the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those who are round about you; and you will be driven out every man straight forward; and no one will gather him that wanders. 6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 6:2 : 2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
  • Amos 1:13-15 : 13 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they ripped up the pregnant women of Gilead to enlarge their border: 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: 15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, says the LORD.
  • Zeph 2:8-9 : 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, by which they have reproached my people and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even a breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. 10 This they shall have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. 11 The LORD will be awesome to them: for he will starve all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.
  • Ezek 20:46 : 46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and speak toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
  • Ezek 21:2 : 2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
  • Ezek 21:28-32 : 28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is polished, to consume because of the glittering: 29 While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of the slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end. 30 Shall I cause it to return into its sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your birth. 31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands 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 no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
  • Ezek 35:2 : 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
  • Gen 19:38 : 38 And the younger, she 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 the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised; 26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
  • Jer 25:21 : 21 Edom, 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 Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah, king of Judah;