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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 36:13 - 36:13
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Thou land devourest up men - alluding to the words of the spies (Num 13:32). The land personified is represented as doing that which was done in it. 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).