Ezekiel 36:11

Ezekiel 36:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Context of Ezekiel 36:11

9I am your friend and I will take care of you. Men will plough your ground and they will plant seeds in it. 10I will cause more and more Israelite people to live on you, and in all the land. They will live in the towns and they will repair the broken buildings. I will make more and more people and animals live on you. They will give birth to many young ones, so that they grow in number. I will cause many people to live on you, as they did a long time ago. I will help you with more good things than you had when you first became a land for my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 12I will cause my people, the Israelites, to walk on you. You will belong to them as the place where they and their descendants live. You will never again cause their children to die. 13This is what the Almighty Lord says: People are saying to you, Israel's land, ‘You destroy people. You take away the nation's children.’

Ezekiel 36:11 word by word

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם אָדָ֥ם וּבְהֵמָ֖ה וְרָב֣וּ וּפָר֑וּ וְהוֹשַׁבְתִּ֨י אֶתְכֶ֜ם כְּקַדְמֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם וְהֵטִֽבֹתִי֙ מֵרִאשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will multiplyרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• upon you manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• and beastבְּהֵמָהbehêmâh · animalH929
• and bring fruitפָּרָהpârâh · be fruitfulH6509
• and I will settleיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• you after your old estatesקַדְמָהqadmâh · formerH6927
• and will do betterטוֹבţôb · be pleasingH2895
• than at your beginningsרִאשָׁהri'shâh · beginningH7221
• and ye shall knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Ezekiel 36:11

• Jeremiah 31:27The Lord says this: ‘The time will come when I fill the lands of Israel and Judah with people and animals.
• Jeremiah 33:12The Lord Almighty says, “This place will become a heap of stones. No people or animals will live here. But I will put fields of grass around the towns again. There will be places for shepherds to rest with their sheep.
• Jeremiah 30:18The Lord says, ‘I will bring back Jacob's descendants to their own land. Enemies have knocked down their houses, but I will repair the homes where they lived. I will be kind to them, so that each family can live safely. The city will stand again in its right place. The palace will also stand where it was before.
• Jeremiah 31:38The Lord says this: ‘The time will soon come when this city of Jerusalem belongs to me again. You will build it all again, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner gate.
• Obadiah 1:19People will come from the Negev. They will come to live in the mountains of Edom. People will come from the low hills in the west, and they will take the Philistines' country for themselves. They will live in the fields in Ephraim and Samaria. Benjamin's people will take Gilead.
• Micah 7:14Rule us and lead us, Lord. You are like a man who leads his sheep. He uses a strong stick to lead them. We are your own special people. We are like a group of sheep that lives by itself in a forest. There is good grass all round them. Let your sheep eat grass in Bashan and Gilead, as they did a long time ago.
• Ezekiel 36:35They will say, ‘This land was like a desert, but now it is like the Garden of Eden. People now live in the cities that had become heaps of stones. The cities now have strong walls.’
• Isaiah 30:26At that time, the moon will shine as bright as the sun. Light from the sun will be seven times brighter. It will be like the light of seven days at the same time! At that time, the Lord will make the wounds of his people better. He has hurt them, but now he will make them better.
• Isaiah 54:7‘For a short time I went away from you. But now I will bring you back to myself, because I feel very sorry for you.
• Jeremiah 23:5The Lord says, ‘The time will come when I do this: I will cause a descendant of David to be born. He will be righteous. He will grow like a branch on the tree of David's family. He will rule as king in a wise way. He will do what is right and fair in the land.
• Joel 3:18In that day new wine will run from the mountains. And milk will run from the hills. All the valleys of Judah will have rivers of water. Water will come from the house of the Lord and it will water the Valley of Acacias.
• Amos 9:15And I will plant my people in their own land. That is the land that I have given to them, and nobody will ever pull them out of that land.’ That is what the Lord your God says.
• Haggai 2:6I, the Almighty Lord also tell you this: Soon, I will cause the sky and the whole earth to shake. I will also cause the sea and the land to shake.
• Zechariah 8:11‘But now it is different. I will not be angry with the few people that have returned,’ says the Lord Almighty.
• Hebrews 8:8But God did find something wrong with it. As a result, he said this to his people: ‘Listen to this! The Lord says: A time will come when I make a new agreement with my people. That is, with Israel's people and with Judah's people.
• Hebrews 11:40God had already decided to prepare something better for all of us. As a result, those people did not receive everything until we could join with them.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 36:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11I will multiply upon you man and beast - The agriculturalist and the beast of burden. And will do better unto you than at your beginnings - I agree with Calmet, that it would be difficult to show the literal fulfillment of this prophecy from the days of Zerubbabel to the birth of Christ. The colouring is too high for that period; and the whole falls in better with Gospel than with Jewish times.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-11When God’s people returned to their land, Israel would grow in number and in harvest. This would fulfill the command God gave at creation to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. do better ... than at your beginnings--as in the case of Job (Job 42:12). Whereas the heathen nations fall irrevocably, Israel shall be more than restored; its last estate shall exceed even its first.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 36:11

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• Call
• Ezekiel, Book of
• Sanctify
• Settle
• Shame
• Uncleanness
• Ezekiel
• Former
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 36

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings