English Standard Version
Ezekiel 36:12
12I 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.
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.
- 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.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)I will cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their territory. You will never again rob them of their children.
Context of Ezekiel 36:12
10And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. 11And 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. 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. 13Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,' 14therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God.
Read all of Ezekiel 36Ezekiel 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 32:15For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.'
- Obadiah 1:17But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
- Ezekiel 36:13Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
- Numbers 13:32So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
- Jeremiah 15:7I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
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
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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
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