Bible Strands
Ezekiel 28:26
And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Ezekiel concerning the future restoration of Israel after their dispersion among the nations. The declaration follows the promise of gathering Jacob’s descendants to their own land and executing judgment on surrounding contemptuous neighbors.
The words — יָשְׁבוּ לָבֶטַח (ya.shvu la.vetach) translates to "they will dwell securely," while כְּרָמִים (khe.ra.mim) means "vineyards." These terms anchor the text’s concrete promise of permanent habitation and agricultural stability.
The thread — The motif of secure dwelling, house-building, and vineyard-planting reappears in Ezekiel 28:24, which removes the pricking briers of hostile neighbors, and Jeremiah 32:15, which records the same agricultural and residential activities during restoration.
Why it lands — The text states that Israel’s security follows God’s judgment on their oppressors, culminating in the recognition of His lordship. It demands acknowledgment that political safety and national restoration originate solely from divine intervention.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 28:24 For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
- Ezekiel 28:22 And you are to declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified within you. They will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments against her and demonstrate My holiness through her.
- Jeremiah 32:15 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
- Ezekiel 34:25 I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.
- Ezekiel 38:8 After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.
- Amos 9:13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
- Proverbs 14:26 He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
- Exodus 29:46 And they will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
- Leviticus 25:18 You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
- Deuteronomy 12:10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,