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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 36:1 - 36:1
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Eze 36:1-38. Israel avenged of her foes, and restored, first to inward holiness, then to outward prosperity.
The distinction between Israel and the heathen (as Edom) is: Israel has a covenant relation to God ensuring restoration after chastisement, so that the heathen’s hope of getting possession of the elect people’s inheritance must fail, and they themselves be made desolate (Eze 36:1-15). The reason for the chastisement of Israel was Israel’s sin and profanation of God’s name (Eze 36:16-21). God has good in store for Israel, for His own name’s sake, to revive His people; first, by a spiritual renewal of their hearts, and, next, by an external restoration to prosperity (Eze 36:22-33). The result is that the heathen shall be impressed with the power and goodness of God manifested so palpably towards the restored people (Eze 36:34-38).
mountains of Israel - in contrast to “Mount Seir” of the previous prophecy. They are here personified; Israel’s elevation is moral, not merely physical, as Edom’s. Her hills are “the everlasting hills” of Jacob’s prophecy (Gen 49:26). “The enemy” (Edom, the singled-out representative of all God’s foes), with a shout of exultation, “Aha!” had claimed, as the nearest kinsman of Israel (the brother of their father Esau), his vacated inheritance; as much as to say, the so-called “everlasting” inheritance of Israel and of the “hills,” which typified the unmoved perpetuity of it (Psa 125:1, Psa 125:2), has come to an end, in spite of the promise of God, and has become “ours” (compare Deu 32:13; Deu 33:15).