Subject

Restoration

What God rebuilds after ruin, years the locust ate, given back.

Also called: rebuilt, made new, the years the locust ate, renewal, brought back, repaired

This subject covers what God rebuilds after ruin, in a person and in a nation. What was taken belongs to Loss. Turning back to God, which usually comes first, belongs to Repentance.

What Restoration covers, and where it stops

This subject covers what God rebuilds after ruin, in a person and in a nation. What was taken belongs to Loss. Turning back to God, which usually comes first, belongs to Repentance.

On this page, 7 sections

Across the canon
Where Scripture speaks
The whole account
The voices
The words underneath
The complete list
Subjects beside it

11 passages

Where Scripture speaks

The passages this subject stands on, in canon order.

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Job 42:10KJVJob's fortunes restored double after unexplained loss, without explanation ever given

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Psalms 23:3KJVThe shepherd who personally restores the soul, not just forgives it

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Psalms 51:12KJVDavid asks not for pardon alone but for the joy of salvation given back

When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Psalms 126:1KJVZion's return from captivity felt like waking from a dream

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Isaiah 61:4KJVFormer desolations rebuilt, waste cities repaired by name

For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Jeremiah 30:17KJVGod names the restoration a healing of wounds, not just a rescue

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Joel 2:25KJVThe exact promise behind the page's own dek: the locust years given back

And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Amos 9:14KJVCaptivity reversed into rebuilt cities and replanted vineyards

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Luke 15:24KJVThe prodigal's father: dead and alive again, lost and found

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Galatians 6:1KJVRestoration as a task the spiritual are called to do for a fallen brother

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

1 Peter 5:10KJVGod himself makes perfect, establishes, and strengthens after suffering

Cyrus returns the sacred temple vessels to the exiles — what judgment carried away, mercy hands back in full (Ezra 1:7).Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Restoration in Scripture, in full

Restoration in Scripture is the undoing of Eden's loss — bringing back what was broken, raising what was dead, returning what was exiled. Joel 2:25 promises "the years that the locust hath eaten" restored; John 21 shows Peter restored by the risen Christ beside another charcoal fire; Revelation 21 ends where Genesis began — a garden, a river, a tree — but with nations walking in the light of the Lamb.

5 voices

What teachers have said

“The same God who, as it were (in human language), was on the watch for all means to destroy, shall be as much on the watch for the means of their restoration.”

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871

“Pardoning mercy is a release from the curse of the law, and renewing grace is a release from the dominion of sin. Both are from Christ, and are branches of the great salvation.”

Matthew Henry · Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710

“He alludes to the tree of life, and intimates, that this is the only restorer of that life which we have lost by sin.”

John Wesley · Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765

“The power which exists in a grain of wheat refashions and restores the grain, after its corruption and death, into a body with stalk and ear.”

Origen of Alexandria · On First Principles 2.10.3

Written before 253.

“Here is not only a gracious prophetic promise of their restoration from captivity, but of their conversion to God through Christ.”

Adam Clarke · Commentary on the Bible

Written before 1832.

The words underneath

Each card is one Hebrew or Greek word behind restoration. It gives the sense, the count across the canon, and the number in Strong's 1890 concordance.

palingenesia: regeneration

Greek · G3824

παλιγγενεσία

Strong's entry: (spiritual) rebirth (the state or the act), i.e. (figuratively) spiritual renovation; specially, Messianic restoration

the Messianic restoration awaiting creation itself

2 times in the New Testament · palingenesia, in full →

apokathistemi: to restore

Greek · G600

ἀποκαθίστημι

Strong's entry: to reconstitute (in health, home or organization)

Christ's promised restoring of all things

8 times in the New Testament · apokathistemi, in full →

shub: to return: return

Hebrew · H7725

שׁוּב

Strong's entry: to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again

the root word behind almost every restoration promise

1,056 times in the Old Testament · shub, in full →

chadash: to renew

Hebrew · H2318

חָדַשׁ

Strong's entry: to be new; causatively, to rebuild

God renewing what sin and time wore down

10 times in the Old Testament · chadash, in full →

82 verses

The complete list

The King James text uses the language of restoration in 87 verses. 5 of them are quoted above and the other 82 stand here, book by book. 6 more verses above show restoration without using one of its words, so they are outside that count. Open a book to read the references with a clause of each verse.

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