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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 36:27-28

“And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you will keep my judgments and do them, and you will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you will be my people and I will be your God.” Now quite unequivocally we have mention of the work of the Holy Spirit, God’s Spirit. It was to be through God’s Spirit that this great work would come about. It is He Who would cause them to walk in His statutes and keep in their hearts and in their lives His... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 36:29-30

“And I will save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will call for the corn and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.” The application is twofold, as ever the near and the far. The near refers to the fruitfulness of the land once the return from exile was complete, a fruitfulness which would bring joy and blessing. But its deeper significance is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 36:31-32

“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations. Not for your sakes do I do this,” says the Lord Yahweh, “be it known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.” That there were such periods of repentance after the exile we need not doubt (e.g. Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 9:0). By the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile a deep lesson was learned by Israel,... 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 36:28

Spiritual blessings, promised in Ezekiel 36:25-27, are now followed with temporal blessings; so earth doth follow heaven. Ye shall dwell: God adds this to his taking, gathering, and bringing into the land, Ezekiel 36:24; when they are there, they shall settle and continue proprietors, possessing their own houses and lands. Which I gave; they were greatly pleased to think Canaan their land was by God given to their fathers; in this land under this character you shall dwell, the land that was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 36:29

Perhaps the former part of this verse would have been better joined with the former verse, as a glorious fruit of God’s taking them to be his people, and his condescending to be their God. Salvation from all uncleannesses includeth justification, in our pardon, sanctification, the renewing our minds, somewhat of adoption in peace and hope, and a consummate glorification in heaven, that state of absolute purity. All this God gives when he is our God. Corn; all necessaries for aliment comprised... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 36:30

The former part of this verse is explained Ezekiel 34:27, and Ezekiel 36:8-10 of this chapter. The latter part is explained in Ezekiel 36:29. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 36:31

Then, when I have given you my Spirit, renewed your hearts, brought you by miraculous mercy out of captivity in a strange land unto liberty in your own, ye shall call to mind, review, and examine all your past life, your ways opposite to God’s; therefore both their own by choice, and also evil in their very nature, the ways the prophets condemned and threatened, as Ezekiel 22:0; Jeremiah 3:5, &c. Not good; it is a meiosis; not good, i.e. exceeding evil, like, yea worse than, other nations,... 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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