And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- BSB Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
- NKJV Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
- NASB And you will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.
- NLT “And you will live in Israel, the land I gave your ancestors long ago. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
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Quick answer
God promises that His restored people will dwell in the land and enjoy the covenant bond: they His people, He their God. Relationship with God is the goal of redemption.
Overview
The ancient covenant formula expresses the heart of God's purpose: a people belonging to Him and He belonging to them. Restoration is not merely territorial but relational. This promise finds its consummation in Revelation, where God dwells forever with His redeemed people.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 37:27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Jer 32:38And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
- Jer 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Ezek 37:23Neither shall they 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 dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
- Ezek 11:20That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
- Rev 21:7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
- Matt 22:32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
- Ezek 37:25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
- Jer 30:22–23And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Song 6:3I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
- Ezek 14:11That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
- Heb 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
- 2 Cor 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for 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.
- Heb 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
- Ezek 36:10And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
- Rev 21:3And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
- Ezek 28:25Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
- Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Ezek 39:28Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
- Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
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