Judah became His sanctuary; Israel, His dominion.
Parallel translations
- WEB Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
- KJV Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
- BSB Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.
- NKJV Judah became His sanctuary, And Israel His dominion.
- NLT the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel became his kingdom.
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Quick answer
At the exodus Judah became God's sanctuary and Israel His domain. God's people became the place of His dwelling and rule.
Overview
By redeeming Israel, God made His people His own sanctuary and kingdom, the sphere where He dwells and reigns. This anticipates the New Testament reality that God dwells among and within His redeemed people (1 Corinthians 3:16). Redemption's purpose is that God might dwell with His people as their King.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 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.
- Exod 25:8Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
- Ps 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
- 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.
- Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Exod 6:7and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
- Exod 29:45–46I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
- Deut 23:14for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
- Lev 11:45For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
- Deut 27:9Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, “Be silence, and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.
- 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.
- 2 Cor 6:16–17What 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.”
- Deut 27:12“These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
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