Ezekiel 36:1-8

Hope for the Mountains of Israel

1 “Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.

2 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The enemy said of you, “Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession.” ’

3 Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,

4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD: This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and the deserted towns that have been plundered and ridiculed by the rest of the nations around you—

5 this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’

6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.

7 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn.

8 “ ‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home.

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Ezekiel 36:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 36

This chapter is a prophecy concerning the desolations of the land of Israel, and the causes of them; of the return of the people to it, and the fruitfulness of it; and of spiritual blessings bestowed upon them in the latter day. And first, for the comfort of the people of Israel, it is observed that their enemies that insulted them will suffer the vengeance of God's wrath, particularly the Edomites, Eze 36:1-7, that the land of Israel should again become fruitful, its cities rebuilt, men and beasts be multiplied upon it, and be no more liable to destruction, nor bear any more the reproach of the Heathen, Eze 36:8-15, the causes of its desolation and destruction, the sins of its inhabitants, especially bloodshed, idolatry, and profanation of the name of God, Eze 36:16-20, nevertheless the Lord promises to have mercy on them, and return them to their own land, not for their sakes, but for his own name's sake, Eze 36:21-24, then follow promises of spiritual blessings to them: as purification from all sin by the blood of Christ; regeneration by his Spirit and grace; and evangelical obedience as the fruit of that, Eze 36:25-27, and others of a mixed kind, respecting partly temporal and partly spiritual blessings, Eze 36:28-36, for all which it is expected of the Lord that he should be prayed unto for them; particularly their inhabitation in their own land, and the multiplication of them in it, with which the chapter concludes, Eze 36:37,38.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 18

1. S Ezekiel 17:22
2. Ezekiel 6:2-3
3. S Ezekiel 25:3
4. S Deuteronomy 32:13
5. S Ezekiel 35:10
6. Obadiah 1:13
7. Psalms 44:13-14; S Lamentations 2:16; Lamentations 3:62
8. Ezekiel 6:3
9. Ezekiel 33:24
10. S Leviticus 26:43
11. S Jeremiah 2:26
12. Deuteronomy 11:11; S Psalms 79:4; S Ezekiel 33:28-29; Ezekiel 34:28
13. S Deuteronomy 29:20
14. Isaiah 66:16; Jeremiah 25:31; Jeremiah 50:11; Ezekiel 25:12-14; S Ezekiel 35:10,15; Ezekiel 38:22; Joel 3:2,14
15. Psalms 123:3-4; Ezekiel 34:29
16. S Numbers 14:30
17. S Jeremiah 25:9
18. S Isaiah 4:2; S Isaiah 27:6; Ezekiel 47:12

Ezekiel 36:1-8

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Hope for the Mountains of Israel

Ezekiel 36:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 36

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