John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 37:15
The word of the Lord came unto me again ,.... Immediately or quickly after he had the above vision of the dry bones, and the explanation of it: saying : as follows: read more
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John Gill
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 37:16
Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick ,.... Or "wood" F1 עץ אחד "lignum unuin", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; a stick of wood; or table, as the Targum; a board or plank. The Septuagint version renders it a "rod"; and so the Arabic; an emblem of a kingdom or government, as this was: and write upon it ; the following words: for Judah, and the children of Israel his companions ; for the tribe of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, which adhered together, and as... read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 37:17
And join them one to another into one stick ,.... Clap the sticks, planks, boards, or tables, to one another; glue them together, or set them so close to one another, that they may seem as one stick, plank, board, or table: and they shall become one in thine hand ; they shall look as if they were one. R. Joseph Kimchi, the father of David, thinks they really became one, by means of a miracle wrought; but there is no need to suppose this; it is enough that they appeared to be so. read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 37:18
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying ,.... The children of Israel and Judah in captivity, of which people Ezekiel was and to whom he was sent as a prophet; who seeing him take two sticks, and write on them, and then join them together, would naturally put such a question to him: wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these ? for they concluded he had some meaning in it, and that it was not a mere childish diversion and amusement; and therefore would... read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 37:19
Say unto them, thus saith the Lord God ,.... Here follows the explanation of the sign or emblem: behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows : that is, the kingdom of Israel, consisting of the ten tribes, of which Ephraim was the chief: and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah ; with the kingdom of Judah: and make them one stick ; these two kingdoms one kingdom: and they shall be one in my hand ... read more
John Gill
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 37:20
And the sticks whereon thou writest ,.... Or art about to write the above things, according to order and direction: shall be in thine hand before their eyes ; shall be held up to them to look at for some time, and observe the cement of the two sticks; and learn and lay up in their minds what is meant by this emblem; and be assured that what is hereafter said as a further explication of it shall certainly be fulfilled. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 37:16
Son of man, take thee one stick - The two sticks mentioned in this symbolical transaction represented, as the text declares the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which were formed in the days of Rehoboam, and continued distinct till the time of the captivity. The kingdom of Judah was composed of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with the Levites; all the rest went off in the schism with Jeroboam, and formed the kingdom of Israel. Though some out of those tribes did rejoin themselves to... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 37:19
The stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim - Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes, was an Ephraimite. Joseph represents the ten tribes in general; they were in the hand of Ephraim, that is, under the government of Jeroboam. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 37:1-28
1. The view, that what the prophet beheld in vision was the final resurrection of mankind , though favored by Jerome, Calovius, and Kliefoth, must be abandoned, not because the doctrine of a general resurrection would not have been a powerful consolation to the pious-hearted in Israel, or because that doctrine was not then known, but because, in the prophet's own explanation, the bones are declared to be those, not of the whole family of man, but merely of the house of Israel. At the... read more
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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 37:15-28
Here are more exceedingly great and precious promises made of the happy state of the Jews after their return to their own land; but they have a further reference to the kingdom of the Messiah and the glories of gospel-times. I. It is here promised that Ephraim and Judah shall be happily united in brotherly love and mutual serviceableness; so that whereas, ever since the desertion of the ten tribes from the house of David under Jeroboam, there had been continual feuds and animosities between... read more