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28:24-26 Israel Gathered in Security. Strategically, this hopeful note is struck precisely at the halfway point in the collection of foreign-nation oracles. Verses 24 and 26 make explicit what is sometimes implicit and often simply absent from foreign oracles: the subduing of God's enemies will result in the well-being of God's own people. Since "scattering" is one of the primary judgments on Israel (e.g., Lev. 26:33; Deut. 28:64), "gathering" (Ezek. 28:25) is one of God's distinctive saving responses (cf. Deut. 30:3), a theme to be repeated throughout the latter part of Ezekiel's book. The peaceful settlement in a bountiful land (Ezek. 28:26) anticipates the prophecy of the "covenant of peace" (34:25-30).