Ezekiel 36:11 “I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be…”

Ezekiel 36:11

I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible

I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

American Standard Version

and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I wil multiply vpon you man and beast, and they shall encrease, and bring fruite, and I will cause you to dwell after your olde estate, and I will bestowe benefites vpon you more then at the first, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Darby Translation

And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring forth fruit; and I will cause you to be inhabited as [in] your former times, yea, I will make it better than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

And I have multiplied on you man and beast, And they have multiplied and been fruitful, And I have caused you to dwell according to your former states, And I have done better than at your beginnings, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Cross references

“I will multiply”

Jeremiah 33:12 Jeremiah 31:27

Jeremiah 33:12 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

Jeremiah 31:27 · BSB

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.

“and I will settle”

Micah 7:14 Jeremiah 30:18 Obadiah 1:19–21 Jeremiah 31:38–40

Micah 7:14 · BSB

Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Jeremiah 30:18 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.

Obadiah 1:19–21 · BSB

Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

Jeremiah 31:38–40 · BSB

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.

“will do”

Jeremiah 23:5–8 Amos 9:15 Ezekiel 36:35 Isaiah 30:26 Isaiah 54:7–10 Joel 3:18–21

Jeremiah 23:5–8 · BSB

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

Amos 9:15 · BSB

I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

Ezekiel 36:35 · BSB

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

Isaiah 30:26 · BSB

The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds H…

Isaiah 54:7–10 · BSB

“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.

Joel 3:18–21 · BSB

And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

“and ye”

Ezekiel 37:13 Hosea 2:20 Isaiah 52:4–6 1 John 5:20 Ezekiel 35:9 Ezekiel 37:6

Ezekiel 37:13 · BSB

Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

Hosea 2:20 · BSB

And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”

Isaiah 52:4–6 · BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

1 John 5:20 · BSB

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Ezekiel 35:9 · BSB

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 37:6 · BSB

I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Also

Ezekiel 16:55 Job 42:12

Ezekiel 16:55 · BSB

And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.

Job 42:12 · BSB

So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

12Yes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children.

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