Ezekiel 36:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וִישַׁבְתֶּ֣ם בָּאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר נָתַ֖תִּי לַאֲבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם וִהְיִ֤יתֶם לִי֙ לְעָ֔ם וְאָ֣נֹכִ֔י אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֖ם לֵאלֹהִֽים׃

Transliteration

And-yәšabtem in-the-ʾāreṣ which nātattî to-ʾăbōtêkhem and-hәyîtem to-me for-ʿām and-ʾānōkî ʾehyeh to-you for-ʾĕlōhîm

Grammar Details

• *yәšabtem*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you will dwell
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular - land
• *nātattî*: Qal perfect 1st person singular - I gave
• *ʾăbōtêkhem*: masculine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your fathers
• *hәyîtem*: Qal perfect 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you will be
• *ʿām*: masculine singular - people
• *ʾānōkî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *ʾehyeh*: Qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will be
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural - God

Word Meanings

• *yәšabtem*: you will dwell/you will live/you will inhabit
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/country/earth
• *nātattî*: I gave/I provided/I granted
• *ʾăbōtêkhem*: your fathers/your ancestors/your forefathers
• *hәyîtem*: you will be/you will become
• *ʿām*: people/nation/folk
• *ʾānōkî*: I/myself
• *ʾehyeh*: I will be/I will become
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/deity (plural form used for singular God)

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 37:27 : 27 And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
• Ezek 37:23 : 23 And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
• Jer 30:22-23 : 22 And you will be my people, and I will be your God. 23 See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
• Ezek 14:11 : 11 So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.
• Ezek 28:25 : 25 This is what the Lord has said: When I have got together the children of Israel from the peoples among whom they are wandering, and have been made holy among them before the eyes of the nations, then they will have rest in the land which is theirs, which I gave to my servant Jacob
• Ezek 36:10 : 10 And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;
• Ezek 37:25 : 25 And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.
• Ezek 39:28 : 28 And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
• Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
• 2 Cor 6:16-7:1 : 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself, 18 And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all. 1 Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• Song 6:3 : 3 I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.