Ezekiel 37 · Verse 27

Ezekiel 37:27

My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Ezekiel 37:27, King James Version

Ezekiel 37:27 in other translations

BSBMy dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
WEBMy tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
ASVMy tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
YLTAnd My tabernacle hath been over them, And I have been to them for God, And they have been to Me for a people.
DARBYAnd my tabernacle shall be over them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
BBEAnd my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.
WebsterMy tabernacle also shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

What does Ezekiel 37:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. My tabernacle ... with them--as foretold (Ge 9:27); Joh 1:14, "The Word ... dwelt among us" (literally, "tabernacled"); first, in humiliation; hereafter, in manifested glory (Re 21:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 By tabernacle - Jesus Christ, the true tabernacle, in whom dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 37:15-28

This emblem was to show the people, that the Lord would unite Judah and Israel. Christ is the true David, Israel's King of old; and those whom he makes willing in the day of his power, he makes to walk in his judgments, and to keep his statutes. Events yet to come will further explain this prophecy. Nothing has more hindered the success of the gospel than divisions. Let us study to keep the unity of the Spirit in…

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Ezekiel 37:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהָיָ֤הve.ha.Yahand it will beH1961
מִשְׁכָּנִי֙mish.ka.Nidwelling place myH4908
עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם'a.lei.Hemwith themH5921
וְהָיִ֥יתִיve.ha.Yi.tiand I will becomeH1961
לָהֶ֖םla.Hemfor them
לֵֽאלֹהִ֑יםle.lo.Him<into> GodH430
וְהֵ֖מָּהve.He.mahand theyH1992
יִֽהְיוּ\־yih.yu-they will becomeH1961
לִ֥יlifor me
לְעָֽם\׃le.'Am<into> a peopleH5971

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 37:27

  • Revelation 21:3

    And 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.

  • Ezekiel 37:23

    Neither 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.

  • Leviticus 26:11-12

    And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

  • John 1:14

    And 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.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:16

    And 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.

  • Colossians 2:9-10

    For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

  • Ezekiel 11:20

    That 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.

  • Ezekiel 36:28

    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.

  • Hosea 2:23

    And 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.

  • Revelation 21:22

    And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

  • Ezekiel 14:11

    That 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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
tabernacle.
Joh 1:14; Col 2:9,10; Re 21:3,22
I will.
23; 11:20; 14:11; 36:28; Le 26:12; Ho 2:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 37:26

    Moreover 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 in the midst of them for evermore.

  • Ezekiel 37:27

    My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

  • Ezekiel 37:28

    And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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Ezekiel 37:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y estará en ellos mi tabernáculo, y seré á ellos por Dios, y ellos me serán por pueblo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et ma demeure sera sur eux; et je serai leur Dieu, et ils seront mon peuple.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und meine Wohnung wird über ihnen sein; und ich werde ihr Gott, und sie werden mein Volk sein.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et erit tabernaculum meum in eis: et ero eis Deus, et ipsi erunt mihi populus.