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Ezekiel 37:19-28

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19 say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take 1the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the 2stick of Judah,[a] and 3make them one stick, 4that they may be one in my hand.
20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand 5before their eyes,
21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, 6I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and 7bring them to their own land.
22 And 8I will make them one nation in the land, on 9the mountains of Israel. And 10one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer 11two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
23 12They shall not 13defile themselves anymore 14with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But 15I will save them from all the backslidings[b] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and 16they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
24 "My servant 17David 18shall be king over them, and they shall all have 19one shepherd. 20They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
25 21They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there 22forever, and David my servant shall be their prince 23forever.
26 24I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be 25an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land[c] and 26multiply them, and will 27set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
27 28My dwelling place shall be with them, 29and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 Then 30the nations will know that 31I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when 32my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."
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Ezekiel 37:19-28 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 37

This chapter contains a prophecy of the Jews' return from captivity to their own land; of the union of the each tribes with one another; and of the glorious kingdom of Christ among them. Their restoration is represented by a vision of dry bones made alive; the place in which they were; the condition they were in; and the manner in which they were made to live, are described, Eze 37:1-10, the explication and application of this vision to the Jews, Eze 37:11-14, their union is signified by a sign or emblem of two sticks, which became one in the hand of the prophet, Eze 37:15-17, the meaning of this is shown, Eze 37:18-20, then follow promises of their return to their own land, in express words; of their being one kingdom, under one King, Christ, the antitype of David, of their sanctification; of their covenant interest in God, made manifest to them; and of his presence, and dwelling among them, Eze 37:21-28.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 32

  • 1. [ver. 16]
  • 2. [ver. 16]
  • 3. [ver. 17]
  • 4. [See ver. 17 above]
  • 5. See Ezekiel 12:3
  • 6. ver. 25; Ezekiel 36:24; See Ezekiel 11:17
  • 7. ver. 25; Ezekiel 36:24; See Ezekiel 11:17
  • 8. [ver. 17; Jeremiah 50:4]
  • 9. See Ezekiel 6:2
  • 10. [ver. 24, 25; Ezekiel 34:24]
  • 11. [Ezekiel 35:10]
  • 12. [Ezekiel 36:25]
  • 13. Ezekiel 14:11
  • 14. Ezekiel 36:25
  • 15. Ezekiel 36:29
  • 16. Ezekiel 34:24, 30; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Revelation 21:3; See Exodus 29:45; Leviticus 26:12
  • 17. See Ezekiel 34:23
  • 18. See Jeremiah 23:5
  • 19. [ver. 22]
  • 20. Ezekiel 36:27
  • 21. Ezekiel 28:25
  • 22. Isaiah 60:21; Joel 3:20; Amos 9:15
  • 23. [John 12:34]
  • 24. Ezekiel 34:25
  • 25. See Isaiah 55:3
  • 26. See Ezekiel 36:10
  • 27. ver. 28; Ezekiel 43:7; See Ezekiel 11:16
  • 28. Leviticus 26:11; Revelation 21:3
  • 29. [See ver. 23 above]
  • 30. See Ezekiel 36:23
  • 31. See Ezekiel 20:12
  • 32. [See ver. 26 above]

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Hebrew And I will place them on it, the stick of Judah
  • [b]. Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings
  • [c]. Hebrew lacks in their land
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