Ezekiel 36:13-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 36:1-15

The prophet had been ordered to set his face towards the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, Ezek. 6:2. Then God was coming forth to contend with his people; but now that God is returning in mercy to them he must speak good words and comfortable words to these mountains, Ezek. 36:1, 4. You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; and what he says to them he says to the hills, to the rivers, to the valleys, to the desolate wastes in the country, and to the cities that are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 36:13

Thus saith the Lord God, because they say unto you ,.... The Heathens that dwelt round about the land of Judea said to the mountains, or to the whole land, thou land devourest up men ; eats up the inhabitants of it; which is part of the ill report the spies, in the times of Moses, brought on it, Numbers 13:32 , to which the allusion is here; suggesting, that either the air was unwholesome; or that the land did not produce a sufficiency of food to support the inhabitants of it; or that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 36:14

Therefore thou shalt devour men no more ,.... Or they shall be no more destroyed in thee by pestilence, famine, sword, or other means: neither bereave that nations any more, saith the Lord ; or, "thou shalt not cause them to fall any more" F11 לא תכשלי "non impingere facies", Montanus, Vatablus; "non offendere facies", Starckius. , for so it is written, as in Ezekiel 36:15 , though the marginal reading is, "thou shalt not bereave", which we follow; and both are to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 36:15

Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the Heathen any more ,.... Their calumnies and revilings, their scoffs and jeers: neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more ; or be any more a taunt and a curse, a proverb and a byword of the people; or be their laughing stock, and the object of their derision: neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God ; by famine, sword, or pestilence, or any other judgment caused by sin: or,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 36:1-15

The material creation sharing in the fortunes of men. Man has a many-sided nature. He is linked with the past history of angels and with the past history of the entire universe. His interests and fortunes are interwoven with the material creation and with the dynamic forces of nature. He has an interest in heaven and in hell. The intelligences of the universe are interested in him, and he is interested in them. I. THE LAND OF CANAAN IS HONORED BY A DIVINE COMMUNICATION... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 36:1-15

Encouragement in exile. Israel was in a very deplorable condition. It was away from its native land, in the power and in the service of the enemy; its own "inheritance" was peopled by a poor and weak remnant; it was the prey and the butt of the merciless mocker; its fortunes were low, its heart was sad indeed; it could not sing the Lord's song in such a strange land as that in which it was exiled. But after words of condemnation comes the language of hope. The prophet of God is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 36:1-38

The present chapter is entirely devoted to the consolation of Israel, though its parts are derived from two separate "words" of Jehovah. Ezekiel 36:1-15 belong to the "word" which opened with the first verse of the preceding chapter; Ezekiel 36:16 begins another "word," which only closes at Ezekiel 37:14 . The subject of the first part is the comfort offered to Israel in the destruction threatened against the heathen, and in the blessings promised to her land and people. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 36:14

Thou shalt devour men no more. From the middle of Ezekiel 36:12 the form of address changes from the plural to the singular, the whole country, mountains, and valleys being regarded as one land, as in Deuteronomy 3:25 . The charge preferred against the country by her enemies was that she had been a land that devoured men and "bereaved its nations" (or, "nation," Revised Version); literally, an eater-up of men and a bereaver of thy nations; i.e. of Israel and Judah, perhaps also of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 36:15

Neither will I cause men to hear in thee — let thee hear , proclaim against thee (Revised Version); or literally, cause to be heard against thee— the shame of the heathen any more ; i.e. the contemptuous speech uttered against thee by the heathen, equivalent to the reproach of the people ; or, peoples; i.e. the reproach cast upon thee by the nations (see Ezekiel 16:57 ; Ezekiel 22:4 ; and comp. Joshua 5:9 ; Micah 6:16 ), rather than, as Curtsy suggests, the reproach... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 36:13

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). read more

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