Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezekiel 37:20
To affect them the more, and to assure them the more fully, let them see these two divided sticks made one in thy hand.
To affect them the more, and to assure them the more fully, let them see these two divided sticks made one in thy hand.
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...
This symbolical action may have been actually performed, though the supposition is scarcely necessary, cf. Ezekiel 12:3....
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)...
DISCOURSE: 1122 THE STICKS OF JUDAH AND OF EPHRAIM JOINED Ezekiel 37:15. The word of the Lord carne again unto me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah,...
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...
_AND THE STICKS WHEREON THOU WRITEST SHALL BE IN THINE HAND BEFORE THEIR EYES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
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
BEFORE THEIR EYES. — The symbolical action was not only to be performed before the people, but the united wood was to remain in the prophet’s hand, while he unfolded to them the Divine promise. That p...
וְ הָי֨וּ הָ עֵצִ֜ים אֲֽשֶׁר ־תִּכְתֹּ֧ב עֲלֵ
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,...
AND THE STICKS WHEREON THOU WRITEST,.... Or art about to write the above things, according to order and direction: SHALL BE IN THINE HAND BEFORE THEIR EYES; shall be held up to them to look at for so...
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. Ver. 20. _Shall be in thine hand before their eyes._] That by this vision publicly acted they may be the better affected....
_Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest_ Ezekiel foretold many things by signs; and the Jews were very inquisitive into the meaning of them: but sometimes their curiosity proceeded rather from a secr...
And the sticks where on thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes, to heighten the effect of the lesson to be conveyed....
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...
Ezekiel 37:20 sticks H6086 write H3789 (H8799) hand H3027 eyes H5869 in thine - Ezekiel 12:3;...
“And when the children of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not show what you mean by these?', you say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Behold I will take the stick of Joseph which is in...
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...
Ezekiel 12:3; Hosea 12:10; Numbers 17:6...