Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 36:35
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities [are become] fenced, [and] are inhabited.
Verse 35. This land that was desolate by sin, is become like the garden of Eden by righteousness. – Satan’s blast is removed; God’s blessing has taken place.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
They shall say; strangers or foreigners, who had heard or seen the sad wastes, and now either hear or see the replanting of it, and how it succeedeth.
Like the garden of Eden; see the phrase Eze 28:13; most fruitful, pleasant, and desirable. This is true of the church of Christ without an hyperbole, but here it is to be accommodated by a comparative, thus; that good state the Jews are now in, compared with what they were in, is as an Eden to a wilderness. Fenced; not only built for habitation, but fortified for defence.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
35. they shall sayTheheathen, who once made Israel’s desolation a ground of reproachagainst the name of Jehovah Himself (Eze 36:20;Eze 36:21); but now He sovindicates its sanctity (Eze 36:22;Eze 36:23) that these sameheathen are constrained to acknowledge Israel’s more than renewedblessedness to be God’s own work, and a ground for glorifying Hisname (Eze 36:36).
Edenas Tyre (the typeof the world powers in general: so Assyria, a cedar “in thegarden of God, Eden,” Eze 31:8;Eze 31:9), in originaladvantages, had been compared to “Eden, the garden of God”(Eze 28:13), from which shehad fallen irrecoverably; so Israel, once desolate, is to be as “thegarden of Eden” (Isa 51:3),and is to be so unchangeably.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And they shall say,…. Either the neighbouring nations that lived round about the land of Israel, Eze 36:36, or rather the travellers, as before, who having as they passed by observed what it had been, and now see what it is; these shall say to one another:
this land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; for delight and fruitfulness: this may well be applied to the flourishing and fruitful state of the church of God, consisting of converted Jews, in the latter day:
and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited; which, as it will be true of cities in a literal sense, so of the churches of Christ in Judea in a spiritual sense; which will be rebuilt by the grace of God, fenced and fortified by his almighty power, and inhabited by true believers.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(35) Like the garden of Eden.This may be meant merely to describe the exceeding excellence and prosperity of the land; but, in connection with what has been previously said, it seems rather to point forward to that state in which man shall again be entirely freed from sin, which has been the state for which the Church in all ages has been preparing.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities [are become] fenced, [and] are inhabited.
Ver. 35. This land. ] Such a change can God soon make for worse or better. Fear him therefore; fear the Lord and his goodness. Hos 3:5
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
like the garden of Eden. Ref, to Pentateuch (Gen 2:8-15). See note on Eze 28:13.
fenced = fortified.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
they shall: Psa 58:11, Psa 64:9, Psa 126:2, Jer 33:9
like the: Eze 37:13, Gen 2:8, Gen 2:9, Gen 13:10, Isa 51:3, Joe 2:3
Reciprocal: Psa 69:35 – build Isa 35:1 – wilderness Isa 54:3 – make Isa 58:11 – be like Jer 32:16 – I Prayed Eze 28:13 – in Eden Eze 33:28 – I will lay Eze 36:11 – will do Joe 2:22 – for the tree Amo 9:13 – plowman
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 36:35. Eden is derived from a word defined ”pleasure” in the lexicon. It is used figuratively to describe a place that is pleasant to the sight (Gen 2:9). The thought is that the land of Palestine, so long in a state of desolation, was again to be put under cultivation.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
People would marvel at the lushness of the formerly desolate land and at the strength of the formerly ruined cities of Israel (cf. Isa 11:6-9; Isa 51:3; Joe 3:18; Amo 9:13-15; Rom 8:19-22; 2Pe 3:13; Rev 21:1-4; Rev 21:23-27). The other nations of the world would recognize that Israel’s God was responsible for this transformation.