Discovery BoxEzekiel 36:36-38 
Context36:36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken – and I will do it!’
36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: 1 I will multiply their people like sheep. 2 36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem 3 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 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.”
2 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”
3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
