Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 36:11

"and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah." — Ezekiel 36:11 (ASV)

Will multiply upon you.— The promises of abundant blessing in this verse, along with the previous and following ones, certainly received a partial fulfillment at the time following the return from the exile and in the subsequent Maccabean period. Yet, one cannot help but feel that the language of promise, if taken only in a literal sense, goes far beyond the historical fulfillment; therefore, these earthly blessings are the shadow and type by which the higher spiritual blessing, given to the Church without limit, is revealed.

Settle you after your old estates.— This does not mean that particular families are to have their own former inheritance again—although, doubtless, this was true, as far as circumstances allowed, for the comparatively small number of families who returned—but rather that they will generally be settled and prosperous, as in former times. And even this promise is eclipsed by the next clause: I will do better unto you than at your beginnings, which can only be considered as fulfilled in the spiritual blessings of the Messianic kingdom, blessings far higher and better than anything earthly.