Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:41

41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countreys wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

Same gracious promise for substance repeated.

Incense of a pure, and obedient heart.

From Babylon, and the parts of that Kingdom, where they had been scattered these seventy years.

By▪ Cyrus's Proclamation, and my secret impulse on the Spirits of the faithful, and constant Iews, while Apostates stay behind.

Magnified and praised for the good I do to my people, and on occasion of their love, fear, and obedience to me.

Heathens shall see, and say as Psal. 126.1. God hath done great things for them, their God is the Great, the Merciful and faithful God, who hath remembred his Servants.

Marginal references: Heb. savour rest.