Ezekiel 36:29
in Ezekiel 36I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you.
KJV
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
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This verse in Ezekiel 36
Commentary
10 notes on this verseI will also save you - I will continue to save you. From all your uncleannesses - Salvation from all uncleannessess, includes justification, entire sanctification, and meetness for glory.
This site's exposition
save you from all your uncleanness
on Ezekiel 36:29-32
The response the text names is shame: “you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves”. Grace received produces shame at the history it forgives. Verse 32 repeats the chapter's hinge line, “It is not for your sake that I will act”.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 16 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, the house of Israel have dwelt (or dwells) in their own land, and they have defiled it with their ways and their idols: according to the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity, their way has become before me.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Sin is defiling, idolatry particularly is so; it renders sinners odious to God and burdensome to themselves. When guilt is pardoned, and the corrupt nature sanctified, then we are cleansed from our filthiness, and there is no other way of being saved from it. This God promises his people here, in order to his being sanctified in them,
But, one way or other, God will make all his favourites to know and own that it is his grace, and not their goodness, his mercy, and not their merit, that made them so; and that therefore not unto them, not unto them, but unto him, is all the glory due. (2.) They must repent of the sin of their own evil ways.
And I will also save you from all your uncleannesses,....
The prophet had been ordered to set his face towards the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, ch. vi. Then God was coming forth to contend with his people; but now that God is returning in mercy to them he must speak good words and comfortable words to these mountains,
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Famine was one of the judgments which they had laboured under, and it had been as much as any a reproach to them, that they should be starved in a land so famed for fruitfulness. But now I will lay no famine upon you; and none are under that rod without having it laid on by him.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
save . . . from all . . . uncleannesses--the province of Jesus, according to the signification of His name (Mt 1:21). To be specially exercised in behalf of the Jews in the latter days (Ro 11:26). call for . . . corn--as a master "calls for" a servant; all the powers and productions of nature are the servants of Jehovah (Ps 105:16;
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I will also save you from all your uncleannesses - I repeat it; “I Will save you from all your sins.”
The words behind it
13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהוֹשַׁעְתִּ֣י | vehosha'ti | and I will save | H3467 → | 206 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֔ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִכֹּ֖ל | mikol | from all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| טֻמְאֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑ם | tumoteikhem | uncleanness<es> your | H2932 → | 36 times |
| וְקָרָ֤אתִי | vekarati | and I will summon | H7121 → | 733 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | <to> | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַדָּגָן֙ | hadagan | the grain | H1715 → | |
| וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣י | vehirbeiti | and I will increase | H7235 → | 227 times |
| אֹת֔וֹ | ʾoto | <obj.> it | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וְלֹא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אֶתֵּ֥ן | ʾeten | I will give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם | ʾaleikhem | to you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| רָעָֽב׃ | raav | famine | H7458 → | 101 times |
וְהוֹשַׁעְתִּ֣יand I will save
vehosha'tiH3467 →206 times
אֶתְכֶ֔ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
מִכֹּ֖לfrom all
mikolH3605 →5413 times
טֻמְאֽוֹתֵיכֶ֑םuncleanness<es> your
tumoteikhemH2932 →36 times
וְקָרָ֤אתִיand I will summon
vekaratiH7121 →733 times
אֶל־<to>
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַדָּגָן֙the grain
hadaganH1715 →
וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣יand I will increase
vehirbeitiH7235 →227 times
אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> it
ʾotoH853 →10935 times
וְלֹא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
אֶתֵּ֥ןI will give
ʾetenH5414 →2011 times
עֲלֵיכֶ֖םto you
ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times
רָעָֽב׃famine
raavH7458 →101 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
Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
it leads to
- Acts 13:23
From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.
- Acts 4:12
Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
- John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 1 John 3:5
But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
- Colossians 1:20–23
and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
- Acts 13:23
Through
Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
it leads to
- Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- 1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- Hebrews 9:14
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.