I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will 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.
- KJV My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, 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.
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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.
Cross-references & the web
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- 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 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son 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 dwelling places, in which 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 all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
- 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.”
- Lev 26:11–12I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.
- Hos 2:23I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”
- Ezek 36:28You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
- Ezek 11:20that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
- Rev 21:22I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
- Ezek 14:11that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
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