Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 36:11

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

I will give spiritual blessings instead of Temporal, and Messiahs Kingdom shall hasten to you instead of that which was abolished, in whatsoever this better consisted; 'tis certain God perform'd his word.

These Ver[illegible: 1 letter]es contain much the same promise of future good▪ which God engageth to do for Israel after their return out of Babylon. He will multiply men upon the Mountains of Israel, he will increase them; now▪ le[illegible: 1 letter]t any should reply there had been men too many on the Mountains, even all the heathen▪ God addeth, they shall be all of them of the house of Israel, Iews ▪ and they should settle, build the wasted Cities, not Ierusalem onely, but other [illegible: 1 letter]ities also, even wasted houses shall be built; you shall have large [illegible: 2 letters]ocks of Cattle, that your condition shall be as in dayes of old.