Ezekiel 36:11
in Ezekiel 36I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
KJV
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
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This verse in Ezekiel 36
Commentary
8 notes on this verseI will multiply upon you man and beast - The agriculturalist and the beast of burden. And will do better unto you than at your beginnings - I agree with Calmet, that it would be difficult to show the literal fulfillment of this prophecy from the days of Zerubbabel to the birth of Christ. The colouring is too high for that period; and the whole falls in better with Gospel than with Jewish times.
This site's exposition
will produce branches and bear fruit
on Ezekiel 36:8-12
The reversal begins. Mountains that lay under a curse are promised fruit “for My people Israel, for they will soon come home”. Population and cultivation are restored, “more than before”, and the recognition formula lands again, that judgment and restoration alike teach who the Lord is.
This site's exposition
I will fill you with people and animals
People and animals together reverse the judgments of 14:13 to 21, where famine, wild beasts, sword and plague cut off both from the land. Multiply and be fruitful echoes the blessing of Genesis 1:28. The land is made new.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Chapter XXXVI. — Verses 1 and following) \"But you, son of man, prophesy over the mountains of Israel and say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God, because the enemy has said of you, 'Aha!
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Their own sin had unsettled them, but now God's favour shall resettle them. When the prodigal son has become a penitent he is settled again in his father's house, according to his former estate.
And I will multiply upon you man and beast,....
Here is another that seems chiefly to concern their spiritual estate, wherein they are reminded of their former sins and God's judgments upon them, to humble them for their sins and under God's mighty hand,
Note, God's kingdom in the world is a growing kingdom; and his church, though for a time it may be diminished, shall recover itself and be again replenished.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י | vehirbeiti | and I will multiply | H7235 → | 227 times |
| עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם | ʾaleikhem | on you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| אָדָ֥ם | ʾadam | human[s] | H120 → | 551 times |
| וּבְהֵמָ֖ה | uvehemah | and animal[s] | H929 → | 190 times |
| וְרָב֣וּ | veravu | and they will increase | H7235 → | 227 times |
| וּפָר֑וּ | ufaru | and they will be fruitful | H6509 → | |
| וְהוֹשַׁבְתִּ֨י | vehoshavti | and I will cause to dwell | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֜ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כְּקַדְמֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם | kekadmoteikhem | like former state your | H6927 → | 6 times |
| וְהֵטִֽבֹתִי֙ | vehetivoti | and I will do good | H3190 → | |
| מֵרִאשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם | merishoteikhem | more than beginnings your | H7221 → | |
| וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם | vida'tem | and you will know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֥י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧יand I will multiply
vehirbeitiH7235 →227 times
עֲלֵיכֶ֛םon you
ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times
אָדָ֥םhuman[s]
ʾadamH120 →551 times
וּבְהֵמָ֖הand animal[s]
uvehemahH929 →190 times
וְרָב֣וּand they will increase
veravuH7235 →227 times
וּפָר֑וּand they will be fruitful
ufaruH6509 →
וְהוֹשַׁבְתִּ֨יand I will cause to dwell
vehoshavtiH3427 →1079 times
אֶתְכֶ֜ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
כְּקַדְמֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗םlike former state your
kekadmoteikhemH6927 →6 times
וְהֵטִֽבֹתִי֙and I will do good
vehetivotiH3190 →
מֵרִאשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔םmore than beginnings your
merishoteikhemH7221 →
וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖םand you will know
vida'temH3045 →945 times
כִּֽי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֥יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָֽה׃[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 37:13Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 37:6
I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know…
- Ezekiel 16:62
So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,
- Psalms 126:2–3
Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Ezekiel 37:6
Through
Micah 7:14Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
it leads to
- Psalms 23:1–4
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Micah 5:4
He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to…
- Psalms 100:3
Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Isaiah 40:11
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
- Psalms 23:1–4
Through
Jeremiah 31:27“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.
it leads to
- Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her as My own in the land, and I will have compassion on ‘No Compassion.’ I will say to those called ‘Not My People,’ ‘You are My people,’ and they…
- Hosea 2:23
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.