“Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Parallel translations
- WEB “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
- KJV Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
- BSB “Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
- NKJV “Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
- NLT “Bring my faithful people to me— those who made a covenant with me by giving sacrifices.”
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Quick answer
God gathers His covenant people—those bound to Him 'by sacrifice'—to hear Him. The summons is to those in covenant relationship with Him.
Overview
The Lord calls together His 'saints,' His consecrated ones who entered covenant through sacrifice, recalling how Israel's covenant at Sinai was ratified with blood. The address that follows will distinguish true worship from empty ritual. Believers today are gathered into a new covenant ratified by the sacrifice of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- Exod 24:3–8Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”
- Matt 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
- Heb 12:24to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
- Deut 33:2–3He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
- Ps 30:4Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.
- Heb 9:10–23being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
- Matt 24:31He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
- Ps 97:10You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Jude 1:14About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
- Prov 2:8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
- Isa 13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
- Zech 14:5You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.
- 2 Th 2:1Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you
- 1 Cor 6:2–3Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
- 1 Th 4:16–17For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
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