24 My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them.(A) They will follow my ordinances, and keep my statutes and obey them.(B)

25 “‘They will live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob,(C) where your ancestors lived. They will live in it forever with their children and grandchildren, and my servant David will be their prince forever.(D) 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them;(E) it will be a permanent covenant(F) with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling place will be with them;(G) I will be their God, and they will be my people.(H) 28 When my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”(I)

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24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow[a] my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.[b] 25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it—they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them.[c] I will establish them,[d] increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever. 27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 37:24 tn Heb “walk [in].”
  2. Ezekiel 37:24 tn Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”
  3. Ezekiel 37:26 sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60 for other references to perpetual covenants.
  4. Ezekiel 37:26 tn Heb “give them.”
  5. Ezekiel 37:28 sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.