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Ezekiel 11:16
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God Will Restore Israel

14 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
15 “Son of man, your brethren, your relatives, your countrymen, and all the house of Israel in its entirety, are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Get far away from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
16 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, ayet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.” ’  
17 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: a“I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’  
18 And they will go there, and they will take away all its adetestable things and all its abominations from there.  
19 Then aI will give them one heart, and I will put ba new spirit within them, and take cthe stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,  
20 athat they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; band they shall be My people, and I will be their God.  
21 But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, aI will recompense their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.  
22 So the cherubim alifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them.  
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Ezekiel 11:16

As a little sanctuary - Rather, I will be to them for a little while a sanctuary. The blessing was provisional, they were to look forward to a blessing more complete. For a little while they were to be satisfied with God' s special presence in a foreign land, but they were to look forward to a renewal of His presence in the restored temple of Jerusalem. "sanctuary" means here strictly the holy place, the tabernacle of the Most High: Yahweh will Himself be to the exiles in the place of the local sanctuary, in which the Jews of Jerusalem so much prided themselves (compare the margin reference). Here is the germ from which is developed Ezek. 40-48, the picture of the kingdom of God in its new form.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezekiel 11:16:

Isaiah 8:14
Amos 7:13
Habakkuk 1:9

 

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