þ Tell them their Miſtake, aud revive their Hope by i new Pro- © miſe and Declaration of my Purpoſes of Mercy towards then. i Theſe & poor deſponding, deje&ed 1/raelites. & Conſider what ny Propher aſſures you he hath ſeen, dry Bones miraculouſly revived. and ſtand- ing up in Power as a mighty Hoſt; ſo ſhall you. / Though your | Captivity be as Deathgyyour Priſons and Confinements cloſe as the # Grave, yet I will open thoſe Graves. mT will life you out, lend you = a Hand to bring you out with Life and Strength. » Be your Guide, = that you may know the way ; be your Support, that you may be able 7 togo; and your Guard and Defence againit Dangers of che way,that © youmay certainly cotne into your own Land.
* 13 And ye ſhall know that I a» the LORD, when I = have opened your graves O my people, and brought you # upout of your graves, 8
When your Reſtitution to your own Land, and your Proſperity in
your Land, when ybur Growth to Strength and Power ſhall be fo mi-
raculouſly effe&ed, then yeu ſhall acknowledge and publiſh the Glory
* of my Power, Faithfulneſs, Goodneſs and Wiſdom. 14 And ſhall put my ſpirit e in you, and ye ſhall live p, | and I ſhall place q you in-your own land : then ſhall ye { know that I the LORD. have ſpoken 7 ir, and performed 5 ir, faith the LORD.
| 0See chap, 11. 19. let. f and chap. 36. 27. let. #, thankful for, and
? Joyful in, , contented with your Bleſſings I give. 9 Quietly and in Reft ſettle you in your own Habitations, and in your antient
ofſeiſ.ons. r This hall demonſtrate the Truth of my Promiſes. ' Fulneſs and Punctualneſs of my Performances.
r 15 T The word of the LORD came again unto me, Jing, , 16 Moreover, thou ſon of man, * take thee one ! ſtick, and write « upon it, For Judah x, and for the children of Iſrael y his companions % : then « take
write upon it, For Joſeph «© the
another 6 ſtick, an
ſtick of | Ephraim 4, and for all the houſe e of Iſrael his COmpanions f. |
- ' Tabler, 7 c. a writing Tablet or a Tally, ſuch as is firted to be "ten upon, or 2-Rod or Staff on which chou mayeſt write, the Heb.
* Which was under the Government of Ephraim; or thus, which is the Tribe of Ephraim, the latter explaining the former. » Se2 wer. 16, ler. e, f. oe Judah and his Companions. p One Kingdom, one Peo- ple, whereas theſe have been dwided, and Enemiesa grear while. q Real, cordial in theic Union. » Under my Government, Care, and Bleſſing. This is the meaning, God will make the two divided
_ one in his Hand, as I make theſe ewo ſticks one in my Han
20 T And the ſticks whereon thou writeſt; ſhall be in thine hand before / their eyes.
s To affe& them the more; and to aſſure them the fullier, let them ſee theſe two divided Sticks made one in thy Hand.
21 And fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Be- hold, I will take the children of Iſrael « fromi among the heathen whicther they begone «, and will gather them on every ſide x, and bring them into their own land.
See this explained chap. 38. 24. rot. t Theten Tribes, as well as Judah and Bejamin; at leaſt many of the ten Tribes. The Expreſ. ſion ſeems to look to them that were gone among the Heathen by a yoluntary Peregrinetion, whether before the Captivity or after it, I will not conjeQure ; bur 'tis likely enough to me, that among the Jews Earried away, and ambng their Children, there wete ſome that were uneaſie, where they were againſt their Wills, who would ramble, and range over Countries, hoping to fare betrer, and perhaps theſe Wanderers may be the Perſons meant by this gone, where they are who mwalk'd thither, as the H:bh. x The Wind was to come from the four Coaſts of Heaven, ver. g. let. /. thereby telling us, they ſhould, as 1n this, be gathered on every ſide.
22 And* I will make them one 7 nation in the land, z upon the mountains of Iſrael, and * one king @ ſhall ** ft:
be king to them all : and they ſhall be no more two 6b natt- Jer. 3. 8. ons, neicher ſhall they he divided into cwo kingdoms any Ho. 1.17. more at all, * Joh. 16.
3 They were one in Devid's time, who was Type of the Me/fah, 6 and continued fo till the end of Solomon's time, whole Namie includes Peace. So wheri the Beloved, the Peace maker, the Me/72h ſhall he King, and on his Throne execcifing bis Kingly Power, chey ſhall be once more one again. z Of Canaan, called here, as elſewhere, th: Mountains of J1ſrae/, 2 M:/ish moſt, and beſt, if nor learnedſt In- rerpreters underſtand, not Zerobabel, nor Nehemiah, nor Judas Maccabers. b The Union under the Mefia#'s viſible and actual Exerciſe of his Re-
al Power ſhall be perpetual. On this place ſo full and expreſs for a frm, laſting Union between the two Nations Ephraim and 7ud:h, and theit being of two Kingdoms made one in thz Land, whence they were ſcatter'd, ſome take occaſidn to enquire whether ic be fulfall'd ai- ready, or remaineth yet to beaccompliſh'd ; the Diſcuſſion whereof, as very alien to a litera] Paraphtaſe, ind which would be too prolix, L paſs over, ſaying no mote of itinthe Affirmative or Negative,
23 Neither ſhall they defile c themſelves any mpre with their 4 idols, nor with their deteſtable e things, nor wich any of their tranſgreſſions f : but 1 will fave g chem ouc of all their dwelling-places; wherein they have tinned 4, and will cleanſe ; them : fo ſhall they be niy people &; and | will be their God.
c Idolatry is a very defiling Sin, :tid the Jews in both Kingdothis ex
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ceedingly addiRted to it, pertinacious in it to the utter Ruine of bork King-
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— EB but after the returh from Babyloniſh Captivity, we find
ard thzn' *tis they ſhall not defile themſclves with the Idols the Hea-
then did werſhip;. or to the Idolsof the Jews, their own Idols, with
which they ſhall benomore defiled. e The ſame wirh Jo's, and ad-
ded to'icr out the Toathſomneſs of the Sin. f The former ob{tinate,