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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ezekiel 36:1-38

CHAPTER 361And thou, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah. 2Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because the enemy says over you, Aha! and the everlasting heights have become a possession for us; 3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because, because “make desolate” [is said to you], and they snap after you round about, that ye may be [become] a possession to the remnant of the heathen, and ye are lifted up on the... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel 36:25-38

Ezekiel THE HOLY NATION Eze_36:25 - Eze_36:38 . This great prophecy had but a partial fulfilment, though a real one, in the restored Israel. The land was given back, the nation was multiplied, fertility again blessed the smiling fields and vineyards, and, best of all, the people were cleansed ‘from all their idols’ by the furnace of affliction. Nothing is more remarkable than the transformation effected by the captivity, in regard to the idolatrous propensities of the people. Whereas... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 36:1-38

In contrast with Mount Seir the prophet placed the mountains of Israel, as he delivered the word of the Lord to them. They had been the scorn of their enemies, who had made them desolate and swallowed them up. Therefore Jehovah would proceed against these enemies, and deliver Israel from their oppression. As a result of such deliverance, the whole land, its mountains and its hills, its water courses and its valleys would be made abundantly fruitful. Men would be multiplied, the cities... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 36:26

A NEW HEART‘A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.’ Ezekiel 36:26 I. If your soul is open and recepitve, it is marvellous how full the world becomes to you of Divine voices.—They come upon you unexpected, unsought, sending through your heart some illuminating flash of surprise, so that you wonder at your previous dullness; they strike you with the sudden shock of some new knowledge or insight, and make you feel, as never before, the true nature of your daily... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 36:16-38

Israel’s Inglorious Past and Their Glorious Future (Ezekiel 36:16-38 ). As we consider this section we should pause to consider the nature of Biblical prophecy. A Biblical prophet was not a foreteller like Nostradamus is seen as being, who declared events that would happen in the future so that people could mark them off and satisfy their curiosity about particular future historical events, he was rather one who declared what God was going to do. In his prophecy he was concerned with ends... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 36:25-26

“And I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. From all your filthiness and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.” Let us first consider what was here on offer. ‘Clean water’ is mentioned nowhere else in the Bible. The ancients did not think in terms of clean water and dirty water. The only clean water could be... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 36:16-38

Ezekiel 36:16-Zechariah : . The Cleansing and Renewing of the People.— This is a passage of peculiar interest and importance, carrying us as it does far into the mind and theology of Ezekiel. First, we are reminded that Israel’ s sins— of bloodshed (whether child sacrifice or judicial murder) and idolatry— had obliged Yahweh to drive them into exile. In this way they had “ profaned His holy name among the nations,” who, according to ancient notions, naturally regarded Him as a worthless God,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 36:25

He alludes to the sprinklings under the law, perhaps to that Numbers 19:9, which was for purification of sin; and Ezekiel 36:19,Ezekiel 36:20. So God will purify them from their guilt. Clean water: some think it may refer to baptismal water; if so, it is to the blood of Christ, signified by it, and this, say the best expositors, is here intended, and this is the blood of sprinkling, Hebrews 12:24. Ye shall be clean; when sin is remitted, the person is indeed clean, both in the account of God... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 36:26

A new heart; a renewed frame of soul, a disposition and mind changed from sinful to holy, from evil to good, from carnal to spiritual. See Ezekiel 11:19. A heart in which the law of God is written, as Jeremiah 31:33. It is a sanctified heart, in which the almighty grace of God is victorious, and turns it from sin to God. Will I give you; God takes it to himself, as indeed it is his only work, see Ezekiel 11:19. A new spirit: this is exegetical, and tells us what the new heart is; it is a new... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 36:1-38

THE PROMISE OF BETTER DAYS FOR ISRAEL. (Chap. 36)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 36:1. “Ye mountains of Israel”—in contrast to Mount Seir of the previous prophecy. They are here personified: Israel’s elevation is moral, not merely physical, as Edom’s.Ezekiel 36:2. “The ancient high places.” “The perpetual heights are the natural mountains, as a figure of the unchangeable grandeur of which Israel boasted, because it had the Eternal for its protector, and in Him the security of its own perpetuity”... read more

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