King James Version
Ezekiel 37:27 in the King James Version says “My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 37 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Ezekiel 37:27 · KJV
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
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.
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“My tabernacle”
H4908a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the temple); specifically, the tabernacle (properly, its w
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“also shall be with them yea I will be their God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and they shall be my people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
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