And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
And I will multiply upon you man and beast,.... Not only men, but beasts also, of which the mountains had been deprived, being killed by the enemy for present use, or drove off for future subsistence;…
Adam Clarke
I will multiply upon you man and beast - The agriculturalist and the beast of burden.
And will do better unto you than at your beginnings - I agree with Calmet, that it would be difficult to show the…
The prophet had been ordered to set his face towards the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, Eze 6:2. Then God was coming forth to contend with his people; but now that God is returning in…
Cambridge Bible
Jer 31:27; Jer 33:12-13; Hos 2:23; Zec 8:4-5. On "old estates," i.e. former condition, cf. Eze 16:55.
your beginnings i.e. early or former estate, Job 8:7; Job 42:12. The phrase "increase and bring…
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