George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 37:23
Idols. The Jews, even many of the priests, worshipped them, under Antiochus. (Calmet) --- But the Church is never defiled. (Haydock)
Idols. The Jews, even many of the priests, worshipped them, under Antiochus. (Calmet) --- But the Church is never defiled. (Haydock)
A prophecy of the reunion of Israel and Judah, the incorporation of Israel under one Ruler, the kingdom of Messiah upon earth and in heaven. Ezekiel 37:16 ONE STICK - So in the marginal reference th...
CHAPTER S 37-48 The Future Blessings of Israel, the Nation Regathered, Their Enemies Overthrown, the Millennial Temple, and the Division of the Land _ 1. The vision of the dry bones and Judah and I...
IDOLS. dirty gods. DETESTABLE. abominable. Referring to idolatry, and its accompaniments. TRANSGRESSIONS. rebellions. Bob. _pasha_ '. App-44. DWELLINGPLACES. Septuagint reads "lawlessnesses". Compar...
Cf. Ezekiel 36:25. _all their dwelling places_ More probably: out of all their BACKSLIDINGS. So LXX., cf. Ezekiel 36:29....
Prophecy of the reunion of the restored Israel into one kingdom, ruled by one king, even David (1) Ezekiel 37:15. Symbol of the union of Judah and Israel into one kingdom, with its explanation. (2)...
BUT I WILL SAVE THEM, &C.— _And I will save,_ or _deliver them from all their transgressions._ Houbigant after the LXX....
B. The Oracle of the Two Sticks 37:15-28 TRANSLATION (15) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (16) Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself a stick, and write upon it: For Judah, and...
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein t...
37:23 God. (a-52) See Note, ch. 11.20....
THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 33-48) So long as the Jewish kingdom remained in existence Ezekiel's prophecies (those in Ezekiel 1-24) dealt almost exclusively with the nation's sin, and with the certainty o...
DWELLINGPLACES] RM 'backslidings.' SO SHALL THEY BE MY PEOPLE, etc.] another feature taken from Jeremiah's New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:33): see also Ezekiel 37:26; Ezekiel 37:27. 24, 25. MY SERVANT DAVI...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 37 THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES – EZEKIEL 37:1-14 V1 I fe
OUT OF ALL THEIR DWELLINGPLACES. — This expression can hardly refer to their places of exile and temporary sojourn among the heathen, since these were not especially the places where they had sinned....
וְ לֹ֧א יִֽטַמְּא֣וּ עֹ֗וד בְּ גִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙...
LIFE FROM THE DEAD Ezekiel 37:1 The most formidable obstacle to faith on the part of the exiles in the possibility of a national redemption was the complete disintegration of the ancient people of Is...
The wonderful vision of the valley filled with bones was now granted to the prophet. As he gazed on them, he was asked, "Son of man, can these bones live?" His utter abandonment to God, even in the ma...
As the Prophet was taught by vision, the wonderful subject of Israel's recovery through grace; so here by figure, he is taught also the wonderful union that is one day to take place in that family, th...
Chapter 37 reveals the definitive blessing of the people as a fact, without entering into any details of the events that terminate in this blessing. The dry bones of Israel, of the nation as a whole,...
NEITHER SHALL THEY DEFILE THEMSELVES ANY MORE WITH THEIR IDOLS,.... WITH THEIR DUNG, or dunghill gods g; either with the idols of the Gentiles, or their own: after their return from the Babylonish ca...
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein th...
_Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen_ See the margin. _I will make them one nation_ They shall not be divided any more into separate kingdoms; the consequence of which wa...
neither shall they, now that they have been brought to a full realization of their transgression, DEFILE THEMSELVES ANY MORE WITH THEIR IDOLS NOR WITH THEIR DETESTABLE THINGS, with any of the abominat...
THE SYMBOLICAL ACTION WITH THE STICKS...
15-28 This emblem was to show the people, that the Lord would unite Judah and Israel. Christ is the true David, Israel's King of old; and those whom he makes willing in the day of his power, he makes...
DEFILE THEMSELVES: idolatry is a very defiling sin, and the Jews in both kingdoms were exceedingly addicted to it, pertinacious in it, to the utter ruin of both kingdoms; but after the return from Bab...
Ezekiel 37:23 defile H2930 (H8691) idols H1544 things H8251 transgressions H6588 deliver H3467 (H8689) places H4186
“Nor will they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions, but I will save them out of all their dwelling places in which they...
Ezekiel 37:1. _The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD,_ God's servants learn nothing until they have an experience similar to that of Ezekiel. They must be led...
CONTENTS: Vision of the valley of dry bones. Sign of the two sticks. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel, Joseph, Ephraim, Judah. CONCLUSION: He who made man so fearfully and wonderfully can in li...
Ezekiel 37:14. _I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live._ A moral resurrection shall pass upon the people of Israel; the Lord shall “bring them up out of their graves,” where they have long bee...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 37:15 The idea of homecoming in the “dry bones” vision (vv. Ezekiel 37:1) provides a link to this oracle (see vv....
THE VISION OF THE DRY BONES REVIVIFIED A SYMBOL OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL. (Chap. 37.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 37:1. “THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME.” “The abrupt commencement witho...
EXPOSITION This chapter embraces, in its earlier section (Ezekiel 37:1), the concluding portion of the "word of God" begun at Ezekiel 36:16; in its later section (Ezekiel 36:15), an additional "word,...
CHAPTER 37. THE VISION OF THE DRY BONES RESTORED TO LIFE AGAIN, AS SYMBOLICAL OF ISRAEL'S DEATH AND RESURRECTION. THE preceding prophecies have unfolded, in all essential particulars, the future salv...
Now in chapter 37, again, a prophecy of the restoration of the nation of Israel, the rebirth of the nation. The hand of the LORD was upon me, carried me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down...
1 John 1:7; 1 John 1:9; Ephesians 5:26; Ephesians 5:27; Ezekiel 20:43;
I will save — I will bring them safe out of them. And will cleanse — Both justify and sanctify them....