Ezekiel 36:12

Ezekiel 36:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
• New International Version (NIV)I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; they shall take possession of you, and you shall be their inheritance; no more shall you bereave them of children.”

Context of Ezekiel 36:12

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. 11I 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. I 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.’ 14So now I, the Almighty Lord, tell you this: You will no longer destroy people or take away the nation's children.

Ezekiel 36:12 word by word

וְהוֹלַכְתִּי֩ עֲלֵיכֶ֨ם אָדָ֜ם אֶת־עַמִּ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וִֽירֵשׁ֔וּךָ וְהָיִ֥יתָ לָהֶ֖ם לְנַחֲלָ֑ה וְלֹא־תוֹסִ֥ף ע֖וֹד לְשַׁכְּלָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yea, I will cause menאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• to walkיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• and they shall possessיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: possessH3423
• thee, and thou shalt be their inheritanceנַחֲלָהnachălâh · inheritanceH5159
• and thou shalt no moreיָסַףyâsaph · to add: againH3254
• henceforth bereaveשָׁכֹלshâkôl · be bereavedH7921

Cross-references for Ezekiel 36:12

• Jeremiah 32:15The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, says, “A time will come when people in this land again buy houses, fields and vineyards.” ’
• Obadiah 1:17But on Mount Zion, people will be free. It will be special to me. Jacob's descendants will have the country that belongs to them. I will give it to them.
• Ezekiel 36:13This is what the Almighty Lord says: People are saying to you, Israel's land, ‘You destroy people. You take away the nation's children.’
• Numbers 13:32Those men gave to the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had explored. They said, ‘We went through that whole land and we explored it. The land seems to eat the people who live there! All the people that we saw there were very big and strong.
• Jeremiah 15:7I will punish the people of every town in the land. I will blow them away, like wind blows away straw. My people have refused to change the way that they live. So I will destroy them and their children too.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 36:12

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-13God intended the land to provide plenty for his people and their children. Instead, it took their children and consumed its own people. This happened because Israel did not follow the covenant, leading to the Lord's judgment with disastrous effects for them and their children (see Ezekiel 5:17). Now that the people were changing, they would receive the covenant blessing of a fruitful land.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. to walk upon you--O mountains of Israel (Eze 36:8)! thee ... thou--change from plural to singular: O hill of Zion, singled out from the other mountains of Israel (Eze 34:26); or land. thou shall no more ... bereave them of men--Thou shalt no more provoke God to bereave them of children (so the ellipsis ought to be supplied, as Ezekiel probably alludes to Jr 15:7, "I will bereave them of children").Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 36:12

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

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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