Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 34:26

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Ezekiel 34:26

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Ezekiel 34:26

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing." — Ezekiel 34:26 (ASV)

Bound about my hill.—“My hill” is Zion. (Compare to the similar figurative language in Isaiah 31:4.) The center of the old theocracy is always spoken of in Scripture as also the center from which goes forth the new covenant of salvation. This was historically fulfilled in the coming of Christ and the cradling of His Church in the Jewish Church. The continuity of the Church was preserved quite as fully through the Christian era as through the Babylonian captivity, quite as large a number of the Jews having embraced Christianity as ever returned from the exile in Chaldea.