King James Version
Ezekiel 37:28 in the King James Version says “And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for everm...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 37 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.”
Ezekiel 37:28 · KJV
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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“shall know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“And the heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that I the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“do sanctify”
H6942to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“when my sanctuary”
H4720a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of jehovah or of idols) or asylum
“of them for evermore”
H5769properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
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