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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.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezekiel 11:16

Although—anticipating the objection of the priests at Jerusalem, that the exiles were "cast far off." Though this be so, and they are far from the outer temple at Jerusalem, I will be their asylum or sanctuary instead (Psalms 90:1; Psalms 91:9; Isaiah 8:14). My shrine is the humble heart: a preparation for gospel catholicity when the local and material temple should give place to the spiritual (Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 66:1; Malachi 1:11; John 4:21-24; Acts 7:48-49). The trying discipline of the exile was to chasten the outcasts so as to be meet recipients of God's grace, for which the carnal confidence of the priests disqualified them. The dispersion served the end of spiritualizing and enlarging the views even of the better Jews, so as to be able to worship God everywhere without a material temple; and, at the same time, it diffused some knowledge of God among the greatest Gentile nations, thus providing materials for the gathering in of the Christian Church among the Gentiles; so marvellously did God overrule a present evil for an ultimate good. Still more does all this hold good in the present much longer dispersion which is preparing for a more perfect and universal restoration (Isaiah 2:2-4; Jeremiah 3:16-18). Their long privation of the temple will prepare them for appreciating the more, but without Jewish narrowness, the temple that is to be (Eze. 40:1-44:31).

a little—rather, "for a little season"; No matter how long the captivity may be, the seventy years will be but as a little season, compared with their long subsequent settlement in their land. This holds true only partially in the case of the first restoration; but as in a few centuries they were dispersed again, the full and permanent restoration is yet future (Jeremiah 24:6).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 11:16:

Psalms 90:1
Isaiah 8:14
Jeremiah 17:12
Ezekiel 1:1
Ezekiel 39:29

 

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