Ezekiel 11:18 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 11:18

And they shall come thither ,.... That those of the captivity shall come to the land of Israel, they or their posterity: and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof ; the idols of the nations, that had been there introduced, detestable to God and all good men: and all the abominations thereof from thence ; idols, as before, even all of them, so that idolatry should be wholly rooted out; this had its accomplishment under Zerubbabel, Ezra, Haggai, &c.; when the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:18

Verse 18 Here he adds something more important — that when the Israelites had returned to their country they would be sincere worshippers of God, and not only offer sacrifices in the temple, but purge the land of all its pollutions. Here also the Prophet admonishes them how great and detestable was the impiety of the ten tribes, because they had contaminated the land with idols. He does not here allude to the idols of the Gentiles, but rather reproves the Israelites because they had... 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

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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:18

"And they shall come thither and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh; that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 11:18

18. They have eschewed every vestige of idolatry ever since their return from Babylon. But still the Shekinah glory had departed, the ark was not restored, nor was the second temple strictly inhabited by God until He came who made it more glorious than the first temple ( :-); even then His stay was short, and ended in His being rejected; so that the full realization of the promise must still be future. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 11:14-21

The assurance of restoration in the future 11:14-21Block entitled this modified disputation speech "The Gospel according to Ezekiel." [Note: Block, The Book . . ., p. 341.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 11:17-18

The Lord also promised to assemble the Jews in exile from the various places where they had scattered from the Promised Land and to give them that land again. This is the first mention of Israel’s future restoration in Ezekiel. When they came back into the land they would purify it of all the things that made it detestable and abominable to the Lord (cf. Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:20)."Such words have a Mosaic ring about them, as if the promised land of Canaan is being held out to the wilderness... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-20

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

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-25

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:18

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 11:18

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 11:14-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 11:17-18

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