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I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will make showers fall in their season; they will be showers of blessing.
Ezekiel 34:26 · New American Standard Bible
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  • WEB I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
  • KJV 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.
  • BSB I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
  • ESV And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
  • NKJV I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.
  • NLT I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.

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Quick answer

God will make His people and the area around His holy hill a blessing, sending seasonal 'showers of blessing.' Abundant grace will flow from God's presence.

Overview

The promise centers on God's 'hill'—Zion, the place of His presence—from which blessing radiates. 'Showers of blessing' picture timely rain bringing fertility, a sign of covenant favor (Lev. 26:4). God's people become a channel of blessing to the surrounding land, echoing the Abrahamic promise (Gen. 12:2-3) ultimately fulfilled as the gospel blessing flows to the nations through Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Deut 28:12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
  • Isa 44:3For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
  • Lev 26:4then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
  • Ps 68:9You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
  • Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
  • Deut 11:13–15It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • Ps 133:3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
  • Mal 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
  • Isa 19:24In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;
  • Zech 8:13It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”
  • Mic 4:1–2But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
  • Zech 8:23Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
  • Isa 56:7I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
  • Isa 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
  • Ps 68:16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
  • Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
  • Isa 32:15Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
  • Isa 2:2–4It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
  • Ps 132:14–16“This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.
  • Ezek 20:40For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh, “there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.

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Christ at the center

The promise of one Shepherd-King David, a new heart and new Spirit, and the river of life flowing from the temple all stream toward Christ, the good Shepherd who gives the Spirit.

How Ezekiel 34:26 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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