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Ezekiel 36:13

in Ezekiel 36

For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because they say unto you, Thou land art a devourer of men, and hast been a bereaver of thy nation;

KJV

Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;

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This verse in Ezekiel 36

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
The judgments which God sent upon the land, had so destroyed the inhabitants that men deemed it a fatal land, which brought destruction to all that should occupy it (compare 2Ki 17:25).

This site's exposition

You devour men and deprive your nation

on Ezekiel 36:13-15

The land had been called one that devours men, a reproach the commentators trace to the plagues, famine and war that had emptied it. God promises the reproach will end together with the emptying, so the land will “no longer endure the reproach of the peoples”.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(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 Awakening2 voices

Thus saith the Lord God, because they say unto you,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Like an unnatural mother it devoured, that is, it was the grave of its people; of the Canaanites, its former possessors, through mutual wars, and finally by the sword of Israel; and now, of the Jews, through internal and external ills; for example, wars, famine (to which Eze 36:30, "reproach of famine among the heathen," implies the allusion here is).

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

You are a devourer of men This land is accustomed to destroying its inhabitants. The Amorites perished therein, and the Jews perished therein.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 36:13:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • כֹּ֤הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַר֙he says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • יַ֚עַןbecause

    yaanH3282 →99 times

  • אֹמְרִ֣ים[people are] saying

    ʾomerimH559 →5305 times

  • לָכֶ֔םto you

    lakhem

  • אֹכֶ֥לֶת[are] devouring

    ʾokheletH398 →810 times

  • אָדָ֖םhuman[s]

    ʾadamH120 →551 times

  • אָ֑תְּyou

    ʾatiH859 →1094 times

  • וּמְשַׁכֶּ֥לֶתand bereaving

    umeshakeletH7921 →23 times

  • גּוֹיַ֖יִךְnations your

    goyekhH1471 →561 times

  • הָיִֽית׃you have been

    hayitH1961 →3559 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    Numbers 13:32

    So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

    it leads to

    • Amos 2:9

      Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and…

    • Numbers 14:36–37

      So the men Moses had sent to spy out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—

    • Ezekiel 36:13–14

      For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’

    • Matthew 23:13

      Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

    • Deuteronomy 1:28

      Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 36 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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