What Does Ezekiel 34:26 Mean in the King James?
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse makes blessing a landscape: people, the places around them, and rain in its season belong to one flourishing.
THE MEANING
You are placed within a shared flourishing that reaches from you into the places around you. Provision arrives in its season, making blessing visible across the whole landscape.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that blessing is only a private possession: here it includes the surrounding places and appears as seasonal provision.
THE ROOT
בְּרָכָה
berakhah
GROWS FROM
ברך
To bless; this word-family also carries the image of the knee.
The Hebrew noun בְּרָכָה (berakhah, “blessing”) comes from ברך (barakh, “to bless”), a root whose word-family also includes בֶּרֶךְ (berekh, “knee”). That bodily echo lets blessing carry an image of bending and giving; here it extends through people and landscape, then appears as rain in its season.
ALSO GROWS
barakh: To bless.
בָּרַךְ
The verb shows blessing as an action, while this verse shows its reach across people and the places around them.
berekh: Knee.
בֶּרֶךְ
The shared root brings the image of a bent knee into the word-family, adding a bodily echo to blessing.
THE PATTERN
Provision becomes visible as flourishing when sustaining waters reach a place in their appointed season.
That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.THE THREAD
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:The same Hebrew noun, בְּרָכָה (berakhah, “blessing”), appears when Abram is told, “thou shalt be a blessing.” Ezekiel extends that identity across the people and the places around them, showing blessing taking shape and reaching outward.
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