Eze 36-37, Eze 39, Hos 2:14-23, 3:5, 14:2-9, Joe 2:28-32 | TSK | STEP | The land of Israel is comforted, both by destruction of the heathen, who spitefully used it, and by the blessings of God promised unto it. Israel was rejected for their sin, and shall be restored without their desert. The blessings of Christ's kingdom. the mountains. hear.

for.The Edomites, and other enemies of the Jews, who thought they would soon be in possession of the whole land of Judea, might be assured that the predicted seventy years of the captivity were wearing away, and the time would soon arrive when the Jews would repossess and cultivate their own land, and eat its fruits.

at hand.

12:25; Php 4:5; Heb 10:37; Jas 5:8,9

Ps 46:11; 99:8; Ho 2:21-23; Joe 3:18; Hag 2:19; Zec 8:12

Mal 3:10,11; Ro 8:31

I will.

37; Isa 27:6; 41:17-23; Jer 30:19; 31:27,28; 33:12; Zec 8:3-6

the wastes.

33; Isa 51:3; 52:9; 58:12; 61:4; Jer 31:10-14; Am 9:14

I will multiply.

Jer 31:27; 33:12

and I will settle.The circumstances of the Jews were never so prosperous after the captivity as they had been before; hence this prophecy must refer to the times of the Gospel and the future conversion and restoration of the Jews.

Jer 30:18; 31:38-40; Ob 1:19-21; Mic 7:14

will do.

35; Isa 30:26; 54:7-10; Jer 23:5-8; Joe 3:18-21; Am 9:15; Hag 2:6-9

Zec 8:11-15; Heb 8:8-13; 11:40

and ye.

35:9; 37:6,13; Isa 52:4-6; Ho 2:20; 1Jo 5:20

I will cause.The prophet is still personifying the mountains, valleys, and wastes of Judea.

they shall.

Jer 32:15,44; Ob 1:17-21

no more.

13; Nu 13:32; Jer 15:7

no more.

37:25-28; Isa 60:21; Am 9:15

bereave. or, cause to fail.

men.

6; 34:29; Isa 54:4; 60:14; Mic 7:8-10; Zep 3:19,20

thou bear.

Ps 89:50; Zep 2:8

they defiled.

Le 18:24-28; Nu 35:33,34; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 24:5; Jer 2:7; 3:1,2,9

Jer 16:18; Mic 2:10

as the.

Le 15:19-33; Isa 64:6

I poured.

7:8; 14:19; 21:31; 2Ch 34:21,26; Isa 42:25; Jer 7:20; 44:6; La 2:4

La 4:11; Na 1:6; Re 14:10; 16:1-21

for the.

16:36-38; 23:37

I scattered.

5:12; 22:15; Le 26:38; De 28:64; Am 9:9

according to their way.

7:3,8; 18:30; 22:31; 39:24; Ro 2:6; Re 20:12-15

they profaned.The Jews, when thus scattered, appeared to them an abject and wretched company of people. They were recognized as the worshippers of Jehovah wherever they went; but they were looked upon as a viler and more worthless race than any of the idolaters among whom they were driven. Many would ascribe their wickedness to the tendency of their religion, which they abhorred, and not to their having acted inconsistently with it; and regard their miseries, not as the punishment of their sins, but as proofs of God's inability to protect them. This profanation of his holy name, Jehovah was determined to wipe away, by shewing mercy unto them.

Isa 52:5; Ro 2:24

These.

Ex 32:11-13; Nu 14:15,16; Jos 7:9; 2Ki 18:30,35; 19:10-12

Jer 33:24; Da 3:15

20:9,14,22; De 32:26,27; Ps 74:18; Isa 37:35; 48:9

32; De 7:7,8; 9:5-7; Ps 106:8; 115:1,2

sanctify.

20:41; 38:22,23; Nu 20:12,13; Ps 46:10; Isa 5:16; 1Pe 3:15

and the heathen.

39:28; Ex 15:4-16; Ps 102:13-16; 126:1-3; Da 2:47; 3:28,29; 4:2,3

Da 4:34-37; 6:26,27

when I shall.

28:22; 1Pe 2:9

their. or, your.

11:17; 34:13; 37:21,25; 39:27,28; De 30:3-5; Ps 107:2,3

Isa 11:11-16; 27:12,13; 43:5,6; Jer 23:3-8; 30:3,18; 31:8; 32:37

Jer 50:17-20; Ho 1:11; Am 9:14,15; Ro 11:25,26

will I.

Le 14:5-7; Nu 8:7; 19:13-20; Ps 51:7; Isa 52:15; Joh 3:5; Tit 3:5,6

Heb 9:13,14,19; 10:22; 1Jo 5:6

filthiness.

17,29; 37:23; Ps 51:2; Pr 30:12; Isa 4:4; Jer 33:8; Zec 13:1

Ac 22:16; 1Co 6:11; 2Co 7:1; Eph 5:26,27; Tit 2:14; 1Jo 1:7; Re 1:5

Re 7:14

from all your idols.

Isa 2:18-20; 17:7,8; Jer 3:22,23; Ho 14:3,8; Zec 13:2

new heart.

De 30:6; Ps 51:10; Jer 32:39; Joh 3:3-5; 2Co 3:18; 5:17; Ga 6:15

Eph 2:10; Re 21:5

the stony.

11:19,20; Zec 7:12; Mt 13:5,20,21; Mr 4:16,17; 2Co 3:3

I will.

37:14; 39:29; Pr 1:23; Isa 44:3,4; 59:21; Joe 2:28,29; Zec 12:10

Lu 11:13; Ro 8:9,14-16; 1Co 3:16; Ga 5:5,22,23; Eph 1:13,14

2Th 2:13; Tit 3:3-6; 1Pe 1:2,22; 1Jo 3:24

cause.

37:24; Jer 31:33; Ga 5:16; Col 2:6; Php 2:12,13; Tit 2:11-14

Heb 13:21; 1Jo 1:6,7; 2Jo 1:6

dwell.

10; 28:25; 37:25; 39:28

be people.

11:20; 37:23,27; So 6:3; Jer 30:22,23; 31:33; 32:38; Ho 1:10

Zec 13:9; Mt 22:32; 2Co 6:16-18; 7:1; Heb 8:10; 11:16; Re 21:3,7

save.

25; Jer 33:8; Ho 14:2,4,8; Joe 3:21; Mic 7:19; Zec 13:1; Mt 1:21

Joh 1:7-9; Ro 6:14; 11:26; Tit 2:14

call.

8,9; 34:27-29; Ps 105:6; Ho 2:21-23; Mt 6:33

reproach.

De 29:23-28; Joe 2:17,26

shall ye.

6:9; 16:61-63; 20:43; Le 26:39; Ezr 9:6-15; Ne 9:26-35

Jer 31:18-20; Da 9:4-20

shall lothe.

Job 42:6; Isa 6:5; 64:6; Zec 12:10,11; Lu 18:13; Ro 6:21

2Co 7:10,11

for your.

22; De 9:5; Da 9:18,19; 2Ti 1:9; Tit 3:3-6

be ashamed.

16:63; Ezr 9:6; Ro 6:21; 1Pe 4:2,3

cause.

Zec 8:7,8

wastes.

10; Isa 58:12; Jer 32:43; 33:10; 50:19,20; Am 9:14,15

6:14; De 29:23-28; 2Ch 36:21; Jer 25:9-11

they shall.

Ps 58:11; 64:9; 126:2; Jer 33:9

like the.

37:13; Ge 2:8,9; 13:10; Isa 51:3; Joe 2:3

know.

17:24; 34:30; 37:28; 39:27-29; Mic 7:15-17

I the Lord have.

22:14; 24:14; 37:14; Nu 23:19; Ho 14:4-9; Mt 24:35

I will yet.

14:3; 20:3,31; Ps 10:17; 102:17; Isa 55:6,7; Jer 29:11-13; 50:4,5

Zec 10:6,9; 13:9; Mt 7:7,8; Php 4:6; Heb 4:16; 10:21,22; Jas 4:2,3

1Jo 5:14

I will increase.

holy flock. Heb. flock of holy things. as the flock.

Ex 23:17; 34:23; De 16:16; 2Ch 7:8; 30:21-27; 35:7-19; Zec 8:19-23

Ac 2:5-11

the waste.

33-35; 34:31; Jer 30:19; 31:27,28; Joh 10:16; Re 7:4-9

Ezekiel 37

1 By the resurrection of dry bones,

11 the dead hope of Israel is revived.

15 By the uniting of two sticks,

18 is shewn the incorporation of Israel into Judah.

21 The promises of Christ's kingdom.

hand.In this vision, the dry bones aptly represent the ruined and desperate state of both Israel and Judah; and the revivification of these bones signifies their restoration to their own land after their captivity, and also their recovery from their present long dispersion. Although this is the primary and genuine scope of the vision, yet the doctrine of a general resurrection of the dead may justly be inferred from it; for "a simile of the resurrection," says Jerome, after Tertullian and others, "would never have been used to signify the restoration of the people of Israel, unless such a future resurrection had been believed and known; because no one attempts to confirm uncertain things by things which have no existence."

1:3; 3:14,22; 33:22; 40:1; Re 1:10

carried.

8:3; 11:24; 1Ki 18:12; 2Ki 2:16; Lu 4:1; Ac 8:39

valley. or, champaign.

De 11:30

they were.

11; Ps 141:7

can.

Joh 6:5,6

O Lord God.

De 32:29; 1Sa 2:6; Joh 5:21; 11:25,26; Ac 26:8; Ro 4:17; 2Co 1:9,10

Heb 11:19

Prophesy.

11,15,16; Nu 20:8; 1Ki 13:2; Mt 21:21; Joh 2:5

O ye.

36:1; Isa 26:19; 42:18; Jer 22:29; Mic 6:2; Joh 5:25,28,29

I will.

9,10,14; Ge 2:7; Ps 104:29,30; Joh 20:22; Ro 8:2; Eph 2:5

I will.

8-10

ye shall.

14; 6:7,13; 7:4,9; 11:10,12; 20:38; 28:22-26; 32:15; 34:27

35:9,12,15; 38:23; 39:6,22,28; De 29:6; 1Ki 20:28; Isa 49:23

Joe 2:27; 3:17

I prophesied as.

Jer 13:5-7; 26:8; Ac 4:19; 5:20-29

there.

1Ki 19:11-13; Ac 2:2,37; 16:26-29

wind. or, breath. Come.

5,14; So 4:16; Joh 3:8

the breath.

Ps 104:30; Re 11:11; 20:4,5

whole house.

16,19; 36:10; 39:25; Jer 31:1; 33:24-26; Ho 1:11; Ro 11:26

2Co 5:14; Eph 2:1

Our bones.

1-8; Nu 17:12,13; Ps 77:7-9; 141:7; Isa 40:27; 49:14; Jer 2:25

Therefore.

Job 35:14,15

I will open.This is a pointed allusion to the resurrection; under which figure Isaiah (ch. 26:9) also describes the restoration of the house of Israel, when he says, "thy dead men shall live;" at which time their bones are said to flourish, (ch. 66:14,) or to be restored to their former strength and vigour; and, in like manner, St. Paul, (Ro 11:15,) expresses their conversion by "life from the dead." In the land of their captivity, they seemed as absolutely deprived of their country as persons committed to the grave are cut off from the land of the living; but when Cyrus issued his proclamation, Jehovah, as it were, opened their graves, and when he stirred up their spirits to embrace the proffered liberty, he put his Spirit within them, that they might live; and their re-establishment in their own land evinced the truth of God in the prediction, and his power in its accomplishment.

21; Isa 26:19; 66:14; Ho 6:2; 13:14; 1Th 4:16; Re 20:13

and bring.

25; 28:25; 36:24; Ezr 1:1-2:70; Am 9:14,15

6; 16:62; Ps 126:2,3

shall put.

9; 11:19; 36:27; 39:29; Isa 32:15; Joe 2:28,29; Zec 12:10

Ac 2:16,17; Ro 8:2,11; 1Co 15:45; Tit 3:5,6

I the Lord.

17:24; 22:14; 36:36

take thee.

Nu 17:2,3

For Judah.

2Ch 10:17; 11:11-17; 15:9; 30:11-18

For Joseph.

1Ki 12:16-20; 2Ch 10:19

22-24; Isa 11:13; Jer 50:4; Ho 1:11; Zep 3:9

Wilt.

12:9; 17:12; 20:49; 24:19

Behold.

16,17; 1Ch 9:1-3; Zec 10:6; Eph 2:13,14; Col 3:11

in thine.

12:3; Nu 17:6-9; Ho 12:10

34:13; 36:24; 39:25; De 30:3,4; Isa 11:11-16; 27:12,13; 43:6; 49:12

Jer 16:15; 23:3,8; 29:14; 30:3,10,18; 31:8-10; 32:37; 33:7,11; 50:19

Am 9:14,15; Ob 1:17-21; Mic 7:11,12

I will make.

Isa 11:12,13; Jer 3:18; 32:39; 50:4; Ho 1:11; Eph 2:19-22

and one.It is evident that the grand union of Israel and Judah here predicted, and their government under one king, and that king to be David, must still be future; for, politically speaking, they never had a king from that day to this, far less a king or prince of that name. (See on ch. 34:23.)

24; 34:23,24; Ge 49:10; Ps 2:6,12; 72:1,8; Isa 9:6,7; Jer 23:5,6

Jer 33:14-17,26; Ho 3:4,5; Lu 1:32,33; Joh 10:16; Re 11:15

shall they defile.

20:43; 36:25,29,31; 43:7,8; Isa 2:18; Ho 14:8; Zec 13:1,2; 14:21

but.

36:24,29; Le 20:7,8; Mic 7:14

will cleanse.

Eph 5:26,27; Heb 9:13,14; 1Jo 1:7,9

they be.

27; 36:28; 39:22; Ge 17:7,8; Ps 68:20,35; Jer 31:1,33; 32:38,39

Ho 1:10; Zec 13:9; Re 21:3,4,7

David.

25; Isa 55:3,4; Jer 23:5; 30:9; Ho 3:5; Lu 1:32

one.

22; 34:23,24; Ps 78:71,72; 80:1; Ec 12:11; Isa 40:11; Mic 5:2,4

Zec 13:7; Joh 10:11,14-16; Eph 4:4-6; Heb 13:20; 1Pe 5:4

they shall.

36:27; De 30:6; Jer 31:33; 32:39; 1Co 11:2; Eph 2:10; Php 2:12,13

Tit 2:11-13; 3:3-8; 1Jo 2:6

they shall dwell in.

21; 28:25; 36:28; 37:26; Jer 30:3; 31:24; 32:41

even they.

Isa 60:21; 66:22; Joe 3:20; Am 9:15; Zep 3:14,15; Zec 14:11

and my.

24; Isa 9:6,7; Da 2:44,45; Zec 6:12,13; Lu 1:32,33; Joh 12:34

Heb 7:2,21

I will make.

34:25; Ge 17:7; 2Sa 23:5; Ps 89:3,4; Isa 55:3; 59:20,21; Jer 32:40

Ho 2:18-23; Joh 14:27; Heb 13:20,21

multiply.

36:10,37; Isa 27:6; 49:21; Jer 30:19; 31:27; Zec 8:4,5; Heb 6:14

set.

11:16; 43:7; 45:1-6; Le 26:11,12; 1Ki 8:20,21; Ps 68:18; Zec 2:5

2Co 6:16

tabernacle.

Joh 1:14; Col 2:9,10; Re 21:3,22

I will.

23; 11:20; 14:11; 36:28; Le 26:12; Ho 2:23

the heathen.

36:23,36; 38:23; 39:7,23; Ps 79:10; 102:15; 126:2; Ro 11:15

sanctify.

20:12; Ex 31:13; Le 20:8; 21:8; Joh 17:17-19; 1Co 1:30; Eph 5:26

1Th 5:23

Ezekiel 39

1 God's judgment upon Gog.

8 Israel's victory.

11 Gog's burial in Hamon-gog.

17 The feast of the fowls.

21 Israel having been plagued for their sins,

25 shall be gathered again with eternal favour.

son.

38:2,3

Behold.

35:3; Na 2:13; 3:5

the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.Or, "prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal."

38:2

I will.It is probable that none of the invaders will escape: but perhaps the inhabitants of Magog in general are meant. The immense army of Gog, led forth against Israel, will almost empty his land; and the subsequent judgments of God upon those that remain at home, will reduce them to a sixth of the whole.

Ps 40:14; 68:2; Isa 37:29

leave but the sixth part of thee. or, strike thee with sixplagues; or, draw thee back with a hook of six teeth, as ch. 38:4. and will cause.

38:15; Da 11:40

north parts. Heb. sides of the north.

20:21-24; Ps 46:9; 76:3; Jer 21:4,5; Ho 1:5

fall.

17-20; 38:21

I will.

32:4,5; 33:27; Isa 34:2-8; Jer 15:3; Re 19:17-21

sort. Heb. wing. to be devoured. Heb. to devour.

open field. Heb. face of the field.

29:5; 32:4; Jer 8:2; 22:19

I will.Some terrible judgment will destroy the countries whence the army of Gog was led forth, about the same time that the army itself shall be cut off.

30:8,16; 38:19-22; Am 1:4,7,10; Na 1:6

carelessly. or, confidently.

38:11; Jud 18:7

in the isles.

38:6,13; Ps 72:10; Isa 66:19; Jer 25:22; Zep 2:11

will I.

22; 38:16,23

and I will.

20:9,14,39; 36:20,21,36; Ex 20:7; Le 18:21

the heathen.

38:16,23

the Holy.

Isa 12:6; 43:3,14; 55:5; 60:9,14

it is come.The prophet, seeing in vision the accomplishment of the prediction, speaks of it as already come and done.

7:2-10; Isa 33:10-12; Re 16:17; 21:6

this.

38:17; 2Pe 3:8

shall go.

Ps 111:2,3; Isa 66:24; Mal 1:5

and shall.

10; Jos 11:6; Ps 46:9; Zec 9:10

set on fire.The language here employed seems to intimate that the army of Gog will be cut off by miracle, as that of Sennacherib; for the people are described as going forth, not to fight and conquer, but merely to gather the spoil, and to destroy the weapons of war, as no longer of use.

hand staves. or, javelins. and they.When the immense number and destruction of the invaders are considered, and also the little fuel comparatively which is necessary in warm climates, we may easily conceive of this being literally fulfilled.

burn them with fire. or, make a fire of them.

shall spoil.

Ex 3:22; 12:36; Isa 14:2; 33:1; Mic 5:8; Hab 3:8; Zep 2:9,10; Mt 7:2

Re 13:10; 18:6

the valley.Probably the valley near the Sea of Gennesareth, as the Targum renders, and so called because it was the great road by which the merchants and traders from Syria and other Eastern countries went into Egypt. Perhaps what is now called the plains of Haouran, south of Damascus.

on the east.

47:18; Nu 34:11; Lu 5:1; Joh 6:1

noses. or, mouths. Hamon-gog. that is, The multitude ofGog.

Nu 11:34; *margin

cleanse.

14,16; Nu 19:16; De 21:23

a renown.

De 26:19; Ps 149:6-9; Jer 33:9; Zep 3:19,20; 1Pe 1:7

the day.

21,22; 28:22; Ps 126:2,3

they shall.

Nu 19:11-19

continual employment. Heb. continuance. to cleanse.

set. Heb. build.

Lu 11:44

in the.

Hamonah. that is, The multitude. cleanse.

Speak.

Ge 31:54; 1Sa 9:13; 16:3; Isa 56:9; Jer 12:9; Zep 1:7; Re 19:17,18

every feathered fowl. Heb. the fowl of every wing. to my.

4; 1Sa 17:46; Isa 18:6; 34:6; Jer 46:10; Zep 1:7

sacrifice. or, slaughter.

eat.

29:5; 34:8; Re 19:17,18,21

goats. Heb. great goats.

34:17; *marg:

of bullocks.

Ps 68:30; Isa 34:7; Jer 50:11,27; 51:40

fatlings.

De 32:14; Ps 22:12; Am 4:1

38:4; Ps 76:5,6; Hag 2:22; Re 19:18

I will set.

36:23; 38:16,23; Ex 9:16; 14:4; Isa 26:11; 37:20; Mal 1:11

and my.

Ex 7:4; 8:19; 1Sa 5:7,11; 6:9; Ps 32:4

know.

7,28; 28:26; 34:30; Ps 9:16; Jer 24:7; 31:34; Joh 17:3; 1Jo 5:20

the heathen.

36:18-23,36; 2Ch 7:21,22; Jer 22:8,9; 40:2,3; La 1:8; 2:15-17

hid I.

29; De 31:17,18; 32:20; Ps 10:1; 30:7; Isa 1:15; 8:17; 59:2; 64:7

Jer 33:5

gave them.

Le 26:25; De 32:30; Jud 2:14; 3:8; Ps 106:41; Isa 42:24

36:19; Le 26:24; 2Ki 17:7-23; Isa 1:20; 3:11; 59:17,18; Jer 2:17,19

Jer 4:18; 5:25; Da 9:5-10

Now will.The return of a few Jews from Babylon, and their continuance, increase, partial reformation, and prosperity, till the days of Christ, followed by their present long continued dispersion, under the frown of God, and destitute of his Spirit, could in no degree answer to these predictions. Hence we must conclude, that some future events, exactly suitable to them, shall yet take place relative to the nation of Israel.

34:13; 36:21,24; Isa 27:12,13; 56:8; Jer 3:18; 23:3; 30:3,10,18

Jer 31:3; 32:37; Am 9:14; Ro 11:26-31

the whole.

20:40; 37:21,22; Jer 31:1; Ho 1:11

and will.

36:4-6,21-23; Joe 2:18; Zec 1:14; 8:2

they have borne.

16:52,57,58,63; 32:25,30; Ps 99:8; Jer 3:24,25; 30:11; Da 9:16

when they.

Le 26:5,6; De 28:47,48; 32:14,15; 1Ki 4:25; Mic 4:4

I have.

25; 28:25,26