They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
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Gill's Exposition
They shall not build, and another inhabit,.... As the Canaanites did, whose houses the Israelites inhabited; but they shall inhabit the houses they have built, and shall not be dispossessed by an…
Barnes' Notes
They shall not build, and another inhabit - Every man shall enjoy the avails of his labor. For as the days I of a tree are the days of my people - That is, in that future time, such shall be the…
Adam Clarke
They shall not build, and another inhabit - The reverse of the curse denounced on the disobedient, Deu 28:30 : "Thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard,…
If these promises were in part fulfilled when the Jews, after their return out of captivity, were settled in peace in their own land and brought as it were into a new world, yet they were to have…
In consequence of this extension of the term of life, each man shall enjoy the fruit of his own labour (cf. Deu 28:30). The idea is therefore somewhat different from that of ch. Isa 62:8-9.
as the…
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