Ezekiel 36 - Introduction

Positive prophecy in behalf of the Land

(1) Ezekiel 36:1. The mountain land of Israel shall be delivered out of the hand of the heathen round about, who have usurped it. These nations shall bear their shame.

(2) Ezekiel 36:8. The land shall in the age to come be luxuriantly fruitful. The reproach that it ate up its inhabitants shall no more fall upon it.

(3) Ezekiel 36:16. The redemptive principles illustrated in these blessings of the future, and in all Israel's history. Not for Israel's sake but for his own name's sake it is that Jehovah will accomplish these things.

1 seq. Deliverance of the mountains of Israel from the nations who have usurped it. The passage is the reversal of all that which was threatened in ch. 6.

mountains of Israel i.e. mountain land of Israel, Ezekiel 6:2; Ezekiel 17:22; Ezekiel 33:28, &c.