My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Parallel translations
- WEB My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- BSB My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- NKJV My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
- NASB My dwelling place also will be among them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- NLT I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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Quick answer
God's dwelling will be with His people, He their God and they His people. God's abiding presence is the crown of the covenant.
Overview
God promises that His tabernacle, His very dwelling, will be among His people in the covenant bond. His presence is the goal of redemption. The New Testament applies this to God dwelling with His people in Christ, fulfilled finally when God tabernacles with the redeemed forever.
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- 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.
- John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- 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.
- Col 2:9–10For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
- 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.
- Lev 26:11–12And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
- Hos 2:23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.
- Ezek 36:28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your 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 21:22And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
- 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.
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