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Ezekiel 17:23

King James Version (KJV)

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Ezekiel 17:23

Verse 23 of 24

Scripture focus

In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

Ezekiel 17:23 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ezekiel 17:23

Theological / Devotional

All fowl of every wing. Representing the earth’s varied inhabitants (cf. Matthew 13:32), men of “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.” Through a remnant God planned to accomplish His original design in the call of Israel. Religious instruction was to go out from Zion, and the spiritual kingdom to extend throughout the whole world. The failure of the remnant of Israel made necessary the call to the Christian church (see 1 Peter 2:9; cf. Deuteronomy 10:15). Its members, gathered from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, were to constitute the new nation through which God would evangelize the world (Matthew 21:33–46).

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