Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 37:22
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
22. This promise runs throughout all prophecy. The disruption of the state was felt even by Hosea, a native of the north, to have introduced a schism into the one kingdom of Jehovah, and to have broken the unity of the consciousness of the community, to which the consciousness of the one God corresponded. Hos 1:11; Hos 8:3-4; Isa 11:13; Jer 3:18. The one God, the husband of the community, required that the community should also be one, with a single affection and service. Cf. Eze 34:23-24.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 22. I will make them one nation] There was no distinction after the return from Babylon.
And one king shall be king to them all] Politically speaking they never had a king from that day to this; and the grand junction and government spoken of here must refer to another time – to that in which they shall be brought into the Christian Church with the fulness of the Gentiles; when JESUS, the King of kings and Lord of lords, shall rule over all.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I will make them one nation: they were one in Davids time, who was type of the Messiah, and continued so to the end of Solomons time, whose name includes peace. So when the Beloved, the Peace-maker, the Messiah shall be King, and on his throne exercising his kingly power, they shall be once more one again.
In the land of Canaan, called here, as elsewhere,
the mountains of Israel. One king; Messiah; the most and best, if not the learnedest, interpreters understand not Zerubbabel, nor Nehemiah, nor Judas Maccabeus.
No more two nations; the union under the Messiahs visible and actual exercise of his regal power shall be perpetual. From this place, so full and express for a firm, lasting union between the two nations Ephraim and Judah, and their being of two kingdoms made one in the land whence they were scattered, some take occasion to inquire whether it be fulfilled already, or remaineth yet to be accomplished; the discussion whereof, as it would be very alien to a literal paraphrase, and too prolix, I pass over, saying no more of it in the affirmative or negative.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. one nation (Isa 11:13;Jer 3:18; Hos 1:11).
one kingnotZerubbabel, who was not a king either in fact or name, and who ruledover but a few Jews, and that only for a few years; whereas the Kinghere reigns for ever. MESSIAHis meant (Eze 34:23; Eze 34:24).The union of Judah and Israel under King Messiah symbolizes the unionof Jews and Gentiles under Him, partly now, perfectly hereafter(Eze 37:24; Joh 10:16).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, c] As they were in the times of David and Solomon, who were both types of the Messiah; and to whose times is referred this prophecy by the ancient Jews e, as then to have its accomplishment:
and one king shall be king to them all, not Zerubbabel, nor Nehemiah, nor Judas Maccabaeus; for these were neither of them kings; and much less such as reigned for ever, as it is said this king shall, Eze 37:25, besides, he is expressly said to be David, that is, the Messiah the son of David; and this clause is by a modern Jewish f writer applied to him:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; which is the very thing the two sticks made one were an emblem of.
e Zohar in Gen. fol. 85. 4. f R. Abendana, Not. in Miclol Yophi in 1 Kings xi. 39.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
Ver. 22. And I will make them one nation. ] Who were before at deadly feud, and fought many bloody battles. Solemur et nos hac promissione contra schismata, Let us also comfort ourselves with this promise against schisms, saith Oecolampadius. Christ will cause the false prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land; Zec 13:2 he will also so work in the hearts of his people, that they shall, “with one mind and one mouth, glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Rom 15:6
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
upon = among.
mountains. A special various readirg called Sevir (App-34) reads “cities”.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will make: Isa 11:12, Isa 11:13, Jer 3:18, Jer 32:39, Jer 50:4, Hos 1:11, Eph 2:19-22
and one: It is evident that the grand union of Israel and Judah here predicted, and their government under one king, and that king to be David, must still be future; for, politically speaking, they never had a king from that day to this, far less a king or prince of that name. – See note on Eze 34:23.Eze 37:24, Eze 34:23, Eze 34:24, Gen 49:10, Psa 2:6, Psa 2:12, Psa 72:1, Psa 72:8, Isa 9:6, Isa 9:7, Jer 23:5, Jer 23:6, Jer 33:14-17, Jer 33:26, Hos 3:4, Hos 3:5, Luk 1:32, Luk 1:33, Joh 10:16, Rev 11:15
Reciprocal: Isa 32:17 – quietness Jer 16:15 – that brought Jer 46:27 – I will save Jer 50:19 – bring Eze 6:2 – the mountains Eze 20:40 – there shall Eze 34:13 – I will bring Eze 36:1 – the mountains Eze 37:17 – General Eze 39:25 – the whole Joe 3:1 – when Amo 3:9 – the mountains Mic 4:6 – and I Mic 5:2 – that is Mar 3:24 – General Joh 17:21 – they all Eph 4:13 – we all
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A REUNITED ISRAEL
No more two nations.
Eze 37:22
Because they are My people, Jehovah makes the leading out of exile and the return to Canaan to be prophesied to them.
I. In view of the Messiah, He promises them a united nationality, and the inhabiting of Canaan for ever, the peaceful possession of the land.The promise here has nothing to do with individuals. After the people of Israel relinquished their claim to nationality in presence of the manifested Messiah, there can be no further talk of their conversion as a nation to Christ; and so much the less as the Kingdom of God over Israel, as a nation, has passed over for fulfilment to the idea of humanity given in Israel. In this last and at the same time highest respect, the unity and eternity, kingly and priestly, under the one shepherd, here prophesied, have in Christianityalike as regards the kingship and as regards the sanctuarytheir universal and also their progressive realisation.
II. The literally verbal interpretation of our prophet has been repeatedly spoken against.For in whatever way the prophets may prophesy the glorious future of Israel, the popular form of their discourse, expressed in accordance with the times, must not keep out of view the eternal hope of Israel, the Spirit-anointed One. Since the beginning and the end of Gods march in history through the world is man, is humanity, it must seem childish to believe that the millennial kingdom will be centralised at Jerusalem, that this will be its capital under the Jews brought back to Palestine, that the Lord will at His coming again dwell in a real Temple, and that the law of Moses, and even the ceremonial and the civil law of Moses, will be the law of the kingdom, etc. This is realistic exposition indeed; and while people cross and bless themselves with it against spiritualism, the thought never troubles them that they are borne along by the materialistic current of the age. The New Testament has not thus understood, not thus expounded the Old. From Gods covenant with Abraham onward, the development of Israel moves in the direction of the formation of a nation and the possession of a land, the land of Canaan. The prophets would have been unintelligible to Israel had they prophesied to it a future without regard to these two particulars. How far that which after the judgment of the exile was prophesied, as restitution of people, land, and cultus, had to serve the purpose of affording the historical nexus and point of departure for the Messiahto what extent what was prophesied on these points would have political earthly reality, could be discerned from the very character of the coming Messianic kingdom. A kingdom which, according to the confession before Pilate, is not of this world, could not fail to show that the apparent sensuousness of the prophecies portraying the future of the people and land of Israel is in reality spiritual allegory. In the history of the nation, in its institutions, etc., the vessels were sufficiently well placed for types and symbols, in order in due time to change the water in them into the wine of Christ.
III. The two powers, which in the second section of our chapter are destined to realise the idea of the symbolised unity of the nation, are the royal power (Eze 37:22) and the sanctuary (Eze 37:26).As these express that which from the commencement Israel was appointed to be (Exo 19:6), Israels destiny as a nation, they are the two pillars of its unity. When the kingdom was divided and the sanctuary was no longer the one sanctuary for all, then there came an end, first to Israel, and then to Judah. As without the raising up again of the kingdom of David, and without the restoration of the sanctuary of Jehovah, there can be no requickening, so there can be no reunion of Israel. That which the last destruction of the Temple, on the one hand, gives to the Jews to ponder to this very hour, Pilate on the other, by his question (St. Joh 19:15), laid on the consciences of their national representatives of that time, and in such a manner that we feel reminded of verses like Joh 19:22 and others here.
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The promise can relate only to Christian Israel, for the Jewish nation either completed itself in the Messiah by receiving Christ, or deprived itself of Him, as may be read in St. Joh 19:15. Then with the perishing of its spirit, its flesh also perished; what still remained in form of Israel was therefore broken up by the false Messiahs, the Romans, etc. It is a fundamental mistake still to seek at the present day to see in the Jews a nation, especially when the remains of nationalitythe offspring of pridewhich still manifested themselves in the Middle Ages in the individual members of the race, are being ever more and more spiritualised, or even materialised, by the spirit of indifference, into cosmopolitanism.
Fuente: Church Pulpit Commentary
Eze 37:22. Make them one nation . . . neither divided into two kingdoms. The subject of the 2-tribe and 10-tribe kingdoms has not been changed in the message, hence we have a final evidence that the theory of the “lost 10 tribes is false.