Discovery BoxEzekiel 36:10-11 
Context36:10 I will multiply your people 1 – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt. 36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. 2 I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. 3 Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:37-38
Context36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: 4 I will multiply their people like sheep. 5 36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem 6 during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
1 tn Heb “I will multiply on you human(s).”
2 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
3 tn Heb “your beginning.”
4 tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”
5 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”
6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
