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Ezekiel 36:26 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 36 · verse 26
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.Ezekiel 36:26 · King James Version
What Ezekiel 36:26 means
Every verb here belongs to God — I will give, I will put, I will take away. The people promised this were in exile for what their own hearts had done. A stony heart cannot repair itself, which is why what is offered is replacement rather than repair.
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Ezekiel 36:26 in context
24For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Commentary
Cross references
- Ezekiel 11:19-20
- Psalms 51:10
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
- John 3:3-5
- Deuteronomy 30:6
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
- Jeremiah 32:39
- Ephesians 2:10
Key words (Strong's)
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
- withinqerebproperly, the nearest partH7130 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
- stonyʼebena stoneH68 →
- fleshbâsârfleshH1320 →
- givenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
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The people of God might be discouraged in their hopes of a restoration by the sense not only of their unworthiness of such a favour (which was answered, in the foregoing verses, with this, that God, in doing it, would have an eye to his own glory, not to their worthiness), but of their unfitness for such a favour,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-38