Ezekiel 11:17 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-21

Prophecy was designed to exalt every valley as well as to bring low every mountain and hill (Isa. 40:4), and prophets were to speak not only conviction to the presumptuous and secure, but comfort to the despised and desponding that trembled at God's word. The prophet Ezekiel, having in the former part of this chapter received instructions for the awakening of those that were at ease in Zion, is in these verses furnished with comfortable words for those that mourned in Babylon and by the rivers... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:17

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I will even gather you from the people ,.... The Babylonians, Medes, and Persians, where they had been carried captive: and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered ; that is, out of Chaldea and Media, out of which they should come in a body, and not singly, or in small numbers, as they did when Cyrus issued out his proclamation: and I will give you the land of Israel ; not only the Jews of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:17

Verse 17 Now God expresses the effect of his grace. In the last verse he had said that he would be a sanctuary. I have reminded you that these words ought not to be understood of a visible place in which God was worshipped, but of that hidden influence by which he cherishes his people. But if the exile had been perpetual, that promise might seem vain. Why then did God protect his people in exile, if he wished them to be consumed there? because otherwise his covenant would have been in vain.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-20

A suffering people scorned by man and comforted by God. "Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren," etc. I. A SUFFERING PEOPLE SCORNED BY THEIR BRETHREN WHO THOUGHT THEMSELVES SECURE . ( Ezekiel 11:15 .) A considerable number of the fellow countrymen of Ezekiel were, like him, suffering the privations and sorrows of exile; and the people that still remained in Jerusalem, instead of pitying the exiles, despised and insulted them.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:16-17

Exile and restoration. There is a change in the tone of the prophet. A full end shall not be made of the remnant. The metropolis shall fall, the king shall be led captive. The enemy shall prevail. But the children of the Captivity shall not be forgotten; they shall experience the protection and fellowship of their covenant God; and they shall be brought back to the land of Israel, when Divine purposes are fulfilled, and when the time is ripe. I. GOD A SANCTUARY FOR A SEASON IN... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:17

I will give you the land of Israel. The marginal references in the Authorized Version show how entirely Ezekiel was following in the footsteps of his master Jeremiah, as he had done in those of Isaiah, in their prophecies of restoration. Here also the law of" springing and germinant accomplishments" finds its application. Ezekiel (47:13-48:35) has his ideal of a new geographical Israel, as of a new local temple, a land from which idolatrous shrines and high places have disappeared. St.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:17

Restoration and reunion. I. THE DIVINE PRESENCE SECURES FUTURE SALVATION . The promise that God will be with his children in exile "as a Sanctuary" ( Ezekiel 11:16 ) is immediately followed by the assurance that he will bring them back to their land. It is not for nothing, then, that the poor exiles have the Sanctuary that is better than Solomon's splendid temple—God's very presence. If God is with us, the future is ours. God is not only a Stay and a Comfort today, he holds... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 11:17-20

Ezekiel 11:17-20. I will even gather you from the people This might be, in some degree, fulfilled in those that returned from captivity, but the perfect completion of this promise must be referred to the time of the expected general restoration of the Jewish nation. And they shall come thither They who assemble upon Cyrus’s proclamation first, and they who afterward assemble upon Darius’s, shall overcome all difficulties, perform their journey, and come safely to their own land. And they... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-25

Hope for the future (11:14-25)Those left in Jerusalem thought they were God’s favoured people. They thought their security was guaranteed because they lived in the city where his temple was situated. They looked upon the exiles as having been cast off by God, forsaken and unclean in a foreign land (14-15). To the contrary, Ezekiel points out that the exiles are God’s favoured people, the remnant whom he has preserved. When they repent of their idolatry and rebellion, he will bring them back to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 11:17

I will even gather you , Compare Jeremiah 31:10 . Reference to Pentateuch, (Deuteronomy 30:3 ). App-92 . people = peoples. the land of Israel. Here, "the land", in Hebrew is 'admath (adamah) = the soil of Israel, This expression occurs seventeen times in Ezekiel (Ezekiel 11:17 ; Ezekiel 12:12 Eze 19:22 ; Ezekiel 13:9 ; Ezekiel 18:2 ; Ezekiel 20:38 , Ezekiel 20:42 ; Ezekiel 21:3 (Hebrew - Ezekiel 11:8 ); Ezekiel 25:3 , Ezekiel 25:6 ; Ezekiel 33:24 ; Ezekiel 36:6 ; Ezekiel 37:1 Ezekiel 37:2 ;... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:16-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 11:17-20

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 11:17

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