I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
- BSB Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.
- NKJV I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God.
- NASB And I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God.
- NLT Then I will live among the people of Israel and be their God,
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Quick answer
God promises to dwell among the Israelites and be their God. The heart of the covenant is God's gracious presence with His people.
Overview
This is the climactic purpose of the tabernacle: that the holy God would live in the midst of His redeemed people. The covenant formula 'I will be their God' captures the intimacy God intends with Israel. This dwelling theme runs through Scripture to its fulfillment in Christ, who tabernacled among us, and to the new creation where God dwells with His people forever (John 1:14; Revelation 21:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Lev 26:12I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
- Exod 25:8Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
- 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.”
- Zech 2:10Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.
- 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.
- John 14:17the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
- Exod 15:17You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
- John 14:23Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
- 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.
- Eph 2:22in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- John 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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