Bible Strands
Ezekiel 36:25
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Israel in exile, between the promise of regathering (v. 24) and the gift of a new heart and spirit (v. 26). The speaker acts first; the audience is the object of the action.
The words — זָרַקְתִּי (zāraqtî, "I will sprinkle") is the root verb, a ritual term for scattering or sprinkling water in purification rites. טְהוֹרִים (tĕhôrîm, "pure") is the technical adjective for ritual cleanness, the same word used for the purification of priests and vessels.
The thread — Hebrews 10:22 applies "sprinkled" to the heart's cleansing from a guilty conscience; John 3:5 pairs water with the Spirit as the condition for entering God's kingdom; Jeremiah 33:8 promises cleansing from iniquity committed against God.
Why it lands — The verse places the entire act of cleansing on God's side: "I will sprinkle," not "you will wash." The reader's role is to be the one made clean, not to produce purity as a prerequisite.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then 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.
Cross-references
- Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
- John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
- Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- Titus 3:5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- Ephesians 5:26 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
- Isaiah 4:4 when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.
- Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
- Psalms 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Titus 2:14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.