Ezekiel 37:18-28

18 "When the sons of your people speak to you saying, 'Will you not declare to us ¹what you mean by these?'

19 say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."'

20 "The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

21 "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will ²take the sons of Israel from among the nations where * they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

22 and I will make them ³one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and ⁴one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

23 "They will ⁵no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but ⁶I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

The Davidic Kingdom

24 "My servant ⁷David will be king over them, and they will all have ⁸one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

25 "They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons' sons, forever *; and ⁹David My servant will be their prince forever.

26 "I will make a ¹⁰covenant of peace with them; it will be an ¹¹everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and ¹²multiply them, and will set My ¹³sanctuary in their midst forever.

27 "My ¹⁴dwelling place also will be with them; and ¹⁵I will be their God, and they will be My people.

28 "And the nations will know that I am the LORD ¹⁶who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forever.""'

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Ezekiel 37:18-28 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 16

1. Ezekiel 12:9; Ezekiel 17:12; Ezekiel 20:49; Ezekiel 24:19
2. Isaiah 43:5, 6; Jeremiah 29:14; Ezekiel 36:24; Ezekiel 39:27; Amos 9:14, 15
3. Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 50:4, 5; Ezekiel 36:10
4. Ezekiel 34:23, 24; Ezekiel 37:24
5. Ezekiel 36:25
6. Ezekiel 36:28, 29
7. Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 34:24; Ezekiel 37:25; Hosea 3:5
8. Psalms 78:71; Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:23
9. Isaiah 11:1; Ezekiel 37:24; Zechariah 6:12
10. Ezekiel 16:62; Ezekiel 20:37; Ezekiel 34:25
11. Psalms 89:3, 4; Isaiah 55:3; Isaiah 59:21; Ezekiel 16:60
12. Jeremiah 30:19; Ezek 36:10, 11, 37
13. Ezekiel 20:40; Ezekiel 43:7
14. John 1:14; Revelation 21:3
15. Ezekiel 37:23; 2 Corinthians 6:16
16. Exodus 31:13; Ezekiel 20:12

Footnotes 2

[a]. Another reading is "backslidings"
[b]. Lit "give"