Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 36:2

2 Thus saith the Lord God, Because the Enemy hath said against you, Aha , even the antient high places are ours in Possession .

Many were the Enemies of Gods people, but they so conspired in one design, with one consent, and were so one in their humours and enmity and carriage, the Prophet speaks of them as one, and particularly of Edom.

Rejoycingly and with insulting Pride, as Ammon did chap. 25.3. and Tyre did chap. 26.2. which see.

The everlasting Hills, but this is common with other Hills, whose foundations, as the[illegible: 1 letter]e of Israel, are from the beginning, and shall be to the end; That they aim at, is a deriding of Israel, who by promise from God claimed these mountains, as a perpetual inheritance, but were now cast out of it, and they hereby tax the God of Israel, as not keeping his promise, so they blaspheme God, and insult over his people.

Our Right, as of the elder house, now Conquerors, and Feu dataries to him, that hath subdued them, thus they pretend right to justifie their injustice.

We are now where we should have been these 1160 years or more, where we thought we would be one time or other, in spite of them, and all their boasts of their God, we are where we will keep, and none shall put us out, Such impious brags were their Sin, and are implied in the words.