And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”
Parallel translations
- WEB I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
- KJV And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
- BSB And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
- NASB And I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not abandon My people Israel.”
- NLT I will live among the Israelites and will never abandon my people Israel.”
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Quick answer
God promises to dwell among the Israelites and never forsake His people. This is the heart of the temple's purpose.
Overview
The temple's deepest meaning is God's dwelling presence among His covenant people. This promise of God with us runs through Scripture and reaches its climax in Christ, Immanuel, and in the indwelling Spirit. The faithful assurance that God will not forsake His people grounds all the hope of the covenant.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 31:6Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
- Exod 25:8Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
- Rev 21:3I 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.
- Lev 26:11I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
- Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
- Deut 31:8Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
- 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
- 1 Chr 28:20David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Ps 132:12–13If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
- Ezek 37:26–28Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.
- Josh 1:5No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
- Ps 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
- 1 Sam 12:22For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
- 2 Cor 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
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