And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Ver. 22. And the earth shall hear] That is, shall bear great store of grain, wine, and oil (vinum pendulum, i.e. uvas). New and fresh oil the word signifies, newly expressed, clear and shining, such as is called golden oil, Zechariah 4:12. God's dear children shall have the best of the best, Isaiah 55:1,6. Even the kidneys of wheat, or whatsoever dainties the earth can afford them. They shall suck honey out of the rock; or, if it be but water, yet it shall be to them as sweet as honey, because therein they taste and see the Lord's goodness, and they have meat to eat that the world knows not of.
And they shall hear Jezreel] That is, they shall answer the pains and prayers of God's people, who are here called Jezreel still (though the Septuagint read it Israel), not to upbraid them with their former wickedness and calamities thereby procured (which yet was the first reason of that name given them, Hos 1:4), but rather to set forth the riches of his grace imparted to such a graceless people. And in addition to show that nothing could hinder them from partaking of those covenant mercies and that happy communion with God whereto they were now restored. This very name of theirs, once their shame, should now turn to their glory. Of Jezreel, scattered by God (which is one signification of the name), they should become Jezreel, a seed of God (which is another), that they might comfort themselves with the hope of Christ, the promised seed, and know that their posterity should not so degenerate into gentility, but that many of them should embrace Christ and inherit the promises, as did Araunah the Jebusite, who became a famous proselyte, Zechariah 9:7, See Trapp on " Zec 9:7 " and as Jether the Ishmeelite, 1 Chronicles 2:17, was for his faith and religion called an Israelite, 2 Samuel 17:25, and as Christ calleth himself Jesus of Nazareth, as a title of honour, which was once cast upon him as a reproach.