Ezekiel 36:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Will sanctify, by clearing it up, and removing the objection that the Jews sufferings and sins among the Babylonians had raised. My great name; they gave the heathen occasion to think meanly and contemptibly of me, but I will show I am as great as good, in both infinite. Was profaned: see Ezekiel 36:20,22. Which ye have profaned; God chargeth the Jews with the blasphemies the heathen cast on God, the Jews were the cause of them, and they are therefore justly imputed to the Jews. That I am the Lord; by what I do, the heathen shall know what I am, and from the great and good things I do for you, performing my promises, and purifying you, shall see I am great, good, faithful, and holy; then shall I be sanctified in you, as I have been profaned by you in their eyes: and so it was, Psalms 127:2.

Ezekiel 36:23

23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.