Ezekiel 36:1 is the contrast to the preceding. Now, when the prophet speaks, Judaea is waste. The pagan nations around, and Edom in particular, rejoice in scorn: but the land of Israel is a holy land given by Yahweh to His people, and it shall be theirs. The promises are those of temporal blessings;... [ Continue Reading ]
The “mountains of Israel” are opposed to “Seir,” the mount of Edom Ezekiel 35:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RESIDUE OF THE PAGAN - Those of the surrounding nations which had survived Jerusalem’s fall, and may have profited by it.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SHAME OF THE PAGAN - The taunts which the pagan heaped upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE LIFTED UP MINE HAND - i. e., I have sworn. Compare marginal reference. THEIR SHAME - They shall find their taunts come home to themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE AT HAND TO COME - i. e., under Zerubbabel.... [ Continue Reading ]
The judgments which God sent upon the land, had so destroyed the inhabitants that men deemed it a fatal land, which brought destruction to all that should occupy it (compare 2 Kings 17:25).... [ Continue Reading ]
BEREAVE - Or, as in the margin: i. e., the land shall not prove the ruin of its inhabitants by tempting them (as of old time) to the sin of idolatry.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR IN THEE THE SHAME OF THE PAGAN - Hear the pagan putting thee to shame by their contemptuous words. THE REPROACH OF THE PEOPLE - “Thy people” (thy rightful possessors) shall have no cause to reproach thee for want of fertility. Were the blessings promised here merely temporal they could not be... [ Continue Reading ]
The defilement of the people described in order to its removal. Ezekiel 36:20 THEY PROFANED MY HOLY NAME - Caused it to be dishonored by the pagan who said in scorn, “This is the people of God.” The pagan, seeing the miserable state of the exiles, fancied that Yahweh was no more than a national go... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAD PITY FOR MINE HOLY NAME - Render it: I “had” a pitiful regard to “Mine Holy Name.”... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel the priest has in view the purifying rites prescribed by the Law, the symbolic purport of which is exhibited in Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 10:22. As the Levites were consecrated with sprinkling of water, so should the approved rite “sprinkling of water” thus prescribed by the Law and explained by... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE - (Compare 2 Corinthians 6:16; Hebrews 8:10. The writers of the New Testament appropriated these and similar phrases of the Old Testament to the Church of Christ. Between the restoration of the Jews (the first step) there are many steps toward the end - the spread of Christ’s C... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PAGAN THAT ARE LEFT - Gathered out of pagandom into the community of God - accepted and redeemed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Their sin had prevented God’s hearing them. Now their purification opens God’s ears to their words.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE HOLY FLOCK - A reference to the flocks and herds brought up to Jerusalem to be consecrated and offered unto the Lord 2 Chronicles 35:7. Thus, the idea is brought out: (1) of the multiplication of the people, (2) of their dedication to the service of God.... [ Continue Reading ]