Teks -- Ezekiel 34:25 (NET)

34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 34:25 - A covenant

A covenant of promises, which contain, and shall bring peace, that is all good.

JFB: Eze 34:25 - covenant of peace . . . evil beasts . . . to cease . . . dwell safely

The original promise of the law (Lev 26:6) shall be realized for the first time fully under Messiah (Isa 11:6-9; Isa 35:9; Hos 2:18).

Clarke: Eze 34:25 - I will make with them a covenant of peace

I will make with them a covenant of peace - The original is emphatic: וכרתי להם ברית שלום vecharatti lahem berith shalom , "And I will cut with them the peace covenant;"that is, a covenant sacrifice, procuring and establishing peace between God and man, and between man and his fellows. I need not tell the reader that the cutting refers to the ancient mode of making covenants. The blood was poured out; the animal was divided from mouth to tail, exactly in two; the divisions placed opposite to each other; the contracting parties entered into the space, going in at each end, and met in the middle, and there took the covenant oath. He is the Prince of peace, and through him come glory to God in the highest, and peace and good will to men upon earth

Clarke: Eze 34:25 - And will cause the evil beasts to cease

And will cause the evil beasts to cease - These false and ravenous pastors. Christ purges them out of his Church, and destroys that power by which they lorded it over God’ s heritage.

TSK: Eze 34:25 - I will make // and will // and they

I will make : Eze 37:26; Isa 55:3; Jer 31:31-33; Zec 6:13; Heb 13:20

and will : Lev 26:6; Job 5:22; Isa 11:6-9, Isa 35:9; Hos 2:18-23

and they : Eze 34:28; Psa 4:8; Jer 23:6, Jer 33:16

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 34:25 - Will make // A covenant of peace // all good // Evil beasts // Safely // In the wilderness // In the woods

Will make renew and confirm to them.

A covenant of peace a covenant of promises, which contain and shall bring peace; in the Hebrew dialect,

all good This, as it refers to the state of this people after their return, comprehends that outward peace and prosperity that God gave them, but it hath a higher and more excellent import, better mercies of this covenant established on better promises, i.e. best, because spiritual and eternal.

Evil beasts: during the Babylonish captivity evil beasts had exceedingly increased, through seventy years’ desolation in Judea, but on the replanting and increasing of men these were diminished, and destroyed at last; thus literally. But mystically, under the bondage of Satan, worse beasts destroyed men; these Christ, who turns back that captivity, will destroy.

Safely without danger and without fear: see Eze 28:26 .

In the wilderness in which both wild and hurtful beasts, and wilder, more hurtful robbers, did haunt. There is somewhat of an hyperbole here; after the temporal redemption from Babylon, they should have such safety as they should account very great after such long and great troubles; in the spiritual redemption they should have greater safety, when, delivered from the hand of enemies, they serve God in holiness before him all their days.

In the woods places where venomous and devouring creatures usually lurk, yet there shall ye venture confidently to sleep, and without much danger.

Haydock: Eze 34:25 - Peace // Beasts

Peace. Christ pacifies all, Romans xv. 33., Micheas v. 5., and Ephesians vi. 15. ---

Beasts: those who promote idolatry; or, speaking of Christians, who teach heretical doctrine and persecute the Church. (Calmet)

Gill: Eze 34:25 - And I will make with them a covenant of peace // and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land // and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods

And I will make with them a covenant of peace,...., Such the covenant of grace is, made with Christ from everlasting; in which Jehovah proposed terms of peace, and which Christ undertook to answer, and became the peacemaker; and from this article concerning the peace and reconciliation of men the covenant is so called; see Isa 54:10, this the Lord promises to make known to his people his flock, to show them their interest in it, and to make it good unto them; for otherwise it was made with Christ, and with them in Christ from all eternity. The Septuagint and Arabic versions read,

"I will make with David a covenant of peace:''

and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land; which was literally fulfilled when the Jews returned from Babylon; during their captivity, the land being uninhabited, evil beasts increased in it, and possessed it; but upon their return these ceased, being either destroyed, or driven away: but figuratively these design wicked men, who, for the malignity of their nature, manners, and conversation, are called evil beasts, as the Cretians were, Tit 1:12, particularly false teachers may be designed; those grievous wolves that spare not, but wrong the flock; but now shall be no more, being either forced to quit their place, or truly converted; so that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard lie down with the kid; which will be the peaceable and comfortable state of the church in the latter day; when there will be none to hurt and destroy in the Lord's holy mountain, Isa 11:6,

and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods; not only in their houses, but in the fields, and even in the wilderness, and in the woods, where wild beasts used to resort; but now being clear of all, and under the protection of such a Shepherd and Prince as David the servant of the Lord, they shall have no dread upon their mind, no fear of any danger; but dwell in the utmost security, lie down and sleep in peace and safety, the Lord sustaining them; and whom they shall serve without fear of any enemy all their days, in righteousness and holiness, being delivered out of the hands of them all.