My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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My dwelling-place also shall be over them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 37:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Revelation 21:3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
- Ezekiel 37:23 They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.
- John 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
- Colossians 2:9-10 For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily, and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
- Leviticus 26:11-12 I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you. I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
- Ezekiel 11:20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Ezekiel 36:28 You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
- Hosea 2:23 I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”
- Ezekiel 14:11 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
- Revelation 21:22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them:…
Eze 37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ver. 27. My tabernacle also,] i.e., Mine ordinances, those testimonies of my spedal presence. See Rev 21:3.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain My tabernacle; the tabernacle of my presence, or wherein…
My tabernacle; the tabernacle of my presence, or wherein I will show my presence among them. Their fathers had a tabernacle of witness, so shall they; that was brought by Joshua into Canaan, but the Messiah shall bring with him a better, a spiritual and heavenly.
I will be their God: see Eze 11:20; Rev 21:1-3.
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They shall be my people; by my grace I will make them holy, as the people of a holy God ought to be, and I will make them happy, as the people of the ever-blessed God expect and hope to be.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain My tabernacle also shall be with them,.... The symbol…
My tabernacle also shall be with them,.... The symbol of his presence: the meaning is, that he shall dwell in them by his Spirit and grace; and everyone of them shall be the temple of the living God, in whom he will walk and dwell:
yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people; which is repeated for the confirmation of it; see Eze 37:23.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain My tabernacle - The tabernacle wherein I will shew…
My tabernacle - The tabernacle wherein I will shew my presence among them. Their fathers had a tabernacle, but the Messiah shall bring with him a better, a spiritual, and an heavenly. They shall be my people - By my grace I will make them holy, as the people of a holy God; and I will make them happy, as the people of the ever blessed God.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 27. My tabernacle] Jesus Christ, the true tabernacle,…
Verse 27. My tabernacle] Jesus Christ, the true tabernacle, in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain My tabernacle . . . with them--as foretold (Gen…
My tabernacle . . . with them--as foretold (Gen 9:27); Joh 1:14, "The Word . . . dwelt among us" (literally, "tabernacled"); first, in humiliation; hereafter, in manifested glory (Rev 21:3).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 27. My tabernacle also] And my dwelling place ……
27. My tabernacle also] And my dwelling place … and I will be. The words repeat the idea in Eze_37:26. The last words of the Book are, “The Lord is there.” The phrase with them, i.e. by or beside them (cf. Eze_2:6), might mean over them, reference being to the situation of the temple, high above the city (Eze_40:2), but this has little probability. It would be more natural to take over in the ideal sense of a “protection” to them. The sanctuary, however, does not protect, it sanctifies, although being sanctified Jehovah will protect them (ch. 38–39). The expression “I will be their God” varies the idea of his dwelling place being with them, Eze_11:20, Eze_14:11, Eze_36:28.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (27) My tabernacle also.—Compare the whole promise of this…
(27) My tabernacle also.—Compare the whole promise of this verse with 2Co_6:16 : “Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” This promise of “a sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore” was in type and shadow set before the eyes of the people with the restoration of the Temple of Zerubbabel; but in its reality began to be fulfilled at the incarnation of the Son of God, of whom it is said by St. John (Joh_1:14) that “He dwelt (literally, tabernacled) among us,” and is continued by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of believers (1Co_3:16; 1Co_6:19); while it is to receive its final consummation in that future when the tabernacle of God shall be with men, and “the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple” of the heavenly Jerusalem (Rev_21:3-22). See Excursus F at end of this book.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain God"s tabernacle.
God"s tabernacle.
I GOD IS IN THE MIDST OF HIS PEOPLE. He is not a distant divinity seated on cloud-capped Olympus or hidden in remote heavenly regions. He visits the earth and even dwells there. We recognize his presence in the beauty of spring and the wealth of autumn; we hear his voice in the thunderstorm, and we see his glory in the sunshine. He haunts the cathedral aisles of the forest; he unveils his glory beneath the blue dome that covers the fair fields of nature. Assuredly he is in our homes shedding peace and love; he draws very near to our souls in the night of sorrow; and he smiles upon us in our innocent joys. Moreover, while God is thus universally present, he manifests himself especially to his people as he does not unto the world. (Joh_14:22, Joh_14:23) This is not on account of any unreasonable partiality, any unfair favoritism. He says justly, "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me". (Pro_8:17)
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II GOD"S PRESENCE IS A PROTECTION FOR HIS PEOPLE. He says that his tabernacle shall be not merely "with them," but "over them," as the phrase should be rendered. We think of a sheltering tent protecting the people from the heat of the sun by day and from the frosts by night. In the olden times the tabernacle was planted in the midst of the camp, but the people generally were not admitted to its covered shrine, which was reserved for a privileged priesthood. Now, however, the veil is rent, and now all God"s people are priests, as the apostle to the Jews declared. (1Pe_2:9) Now, therefore, God"s tabernacle is not only in the midst of the camp, gazed at with admiration by a surrounding host. It is spread over the people of God, because they are allowed to enter its most holy place. Our safety lies in our nearness to God, and when we truly seek to enter into close communion with Heaven we find that there is a sense of security and peace that can be found in no other way.
1. God then protects from trouble, even when the blow falls, by strengthening us to bear it.
2. He protects from temptation by giving us a joy greater than that of the pleasures of sin.
3. He protects from the guilt of the past, by taking away our sins and giving free forgiveness.
4. He protects from the fear of the future, by assuring us that he will never leave us nor forsake us.
III GOD"S PRESENCE WITH HIS PEOPLE SECURES THEIR UNION WITH HIM. "Yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people." It is difficult to love and trust an absent Being, but nearness stimulates affection and confidence.
1. The people own God. He is "their God." This signifies willing acceptance following deliberate choice. No man has a true experience of religion until he can say from his heart, "The Lord is my God.
2. God owns his people. They are his by right of creation; they are still more his by right of redemption bought with a price." God"s ownership implies
1. his right to do as he will with his people;
2. his care to preserve his possession;
3. his joy in dwelling among his children.
Observe, in conclusion:
1. Sin removes the tabernacle of God from our midst. When Israel sinned, the tabernacle was pitched outside the comp.
2. Christ brings Goal back into closest association with us. In Christ he "pitches his tent among us". (Joh_1:14)
The tabernacle of God with men.
There can be no question that one great purpose of the appointment, first of the tabernacle, and then of the temple, as the center of the national and religious life of Israel, was to familiarize the people with the thought of God"s constant presence in the midst of them, as well as to provide means and opportunities for special intercommunion between the Divine King and his subjects. The coming of Christ whose body was the temple of Deity, the coming of the Holy Spirit whose abiding indwelling constitutes the temple, the Church, of God, did away with the necessity for a local and temporary dwelling-place of God upon earth, but secured the permanent reality of the fellowship of which such a dwelling-place was the symbol and the means.
I GOD"S TABERNACLE WITH MEN REMINDS US OF THE UNIVERSAL PRESENCE OF THE DEITY UPON EARTH THROUGHOUT ALL TIME.
II AND OF HIS SPECIAL AND CONGENIAL PRESENCE AMONG AND WITH HIS OWN PEOPLE.
III AND OF HIS GRACIOUS PURPOSE TO REVEAL UNTO THEM HIS OWN CHARACTER AND WILL.
IV AND OF HIS CONSTANT WILLINGNESS TO RECEIVE THEIR WORSHIP AND HOMAGE.
V AND OF HIS DESIRE TO MAINTAIN CLOSE AND UNBROKEN RELATIONS OF CORDIALITY AND KINDNESS WITH HIS PEOPLE.
APPLICATION. The privilege of fellowship with God should be reverently cherished, prized, and cultivated. The means and occasions of such fellowship should not be mistaken for the fellowship itself. The truest dignity and sacredness of this earthly life consists in the opportunity it offers of communion with the unseen but ever-present God and Savior. The strongest attraction of the life to come lies in the prospect of a closer approach to God, a more uninterrupted fellowship with God, and a nearer assimilation to his perfect and glorious character. T.
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