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Ezekiel 28:24–26, King James Version
Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.
Ezekiel 28:24–26
Israel Is Gathered to Dwell Securely after Neighbor Judgment
When the pricking brier is gone, Israel is gathered
There shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them. They shall know that the LORD is God. Neighbor judgment in chapters 25–28 is here given its inner purpose: relief from those who despised Israel.
The LORD gathers the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and is sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen. They dwell in their land that he gave to his servant Jacob.
Building, planting, and dwelling with confidence
They dwell safely, build houses, plant vineyards, and dwell with confidence, when the LORD has executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about. They shall know that he is the LORD their God.
The promise is restoration after scorn, not a license to dispossess neighbors, not a claim that a modern state is beyond moral scrutiny, and not a rule that nearby peoples are thorns by ethnicity. Holiness before the nations is the stated public meaning.
How this should shape us
Hope for a despised people's safety without turning neighbors into weeds. Support rebuilding and planting as gifts. Keep every present government under ordinary justice, and do not use 'brier' language as ethnic contempt.
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Ezekiel 28:24–26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
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Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 28:24–26
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Official NET Ezekiel PDF, exact translator, study, and textual notes attached to Ezekiel 28:24–26
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Enter the Bible Ezekiel course, Outline and passage studies: nations, Tyre, Egypt, and laments; applied to Ezekiel 28:24–26
Supports: Current university-level literary-historical synthesis and interpretive questions, including ethical attention to gendered rhetoric and the final vision.
Yale Bible Study, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Ezekiel Parts 2-3 study guides: nations, watchman, shepherd, and restoration; applied to Ezekiel 28:24–26
Supports: Displaced identity, false hope, durable collective hope, restoration, land, temple, transformed community, and their limits.
Hiebel, 'Hope in Exile,' Religions 10.8 (2019), pp. 1-16, sections on Ezekiel 13, 20, 34-37, and 40-48; applied to Ezekiel 28:24–26
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Ezekiel course: summary, outline, background, introductory issues, themes, and passage studies
Alan G. Padgett; revised by Tyler Mayfield
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Exact location: Enter the Bible Ezekiel course, Outline and passage studies: nations, Tyre, Egypt, and laments; applied to Ezekiel 28:24–26
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Jeremiah and Ezekiel: Ezekiel Parts 1-3 Study Guides
Joel S. Baden and Jacqueline Vayntrub
Yale Bible Study, 2024
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Exact location: Yale Bible Study, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Ezekiel Parts 2-3 study guides: nations, watchman, shepherd, and restoration; applied to Ezekiel 28:24–26
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Hope in Exile: In Conversation with Ezekiel
Janina M. Hiebel
Religions 10.8, article 476, 2019
Supports: Displaced identity, false hope, durable collective hope, restoration, land, temple, transformed community, and their limits.
Exact location: Hiebel, 'Hope in Exile,' Religions 10.8 (2019), pp. 1-16, sections on Ezekiel 13, 20, 34-37, and 40-48; applied to Ezekiel 28:24–26
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