Reading for March 30th

Ezekiel's Oracles Concerning The Nations
Chs. 25-32 Like other prophetic books (Isa 13-23; Jer 46-51), Ezekiel contains a section of oracles concerning foreign nations, which are intended to demonstrate God's power throughout the world.
the nations include here, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, and Egypt, would all be considered as targets of the Babylonian empire, although Egypt was never taken.
Ezekiel identifies the projected expansion of Babylonia as an act of God.

Read Ezekiel 25.1-7 the oracle concerning Ammon.
The Babylonians employed Ammonites against Judah (2 Kings 24.1-2).
Later, the Ammonites joined Judah in an anti-Babylonian coalition (Jer 27.3).
Ammon was located east of the Jordan River.
Rabbah, the site of present day Amman, Jordan, was the capital.
The Ammonites are condemned in part for mocking the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple.
The people of the east are nomadic Arab tribes from the northern Arabian desert who moved into Ammon and Moab following their destruction by Babylonia.
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