Ezekiel 37:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְכָרַתִּ֤י לָהֶם֙ בְּרִ֣ית שָׁל֔וֹם בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָ֖ם יִהְיֶ֣ה אוֹתָ֑ם וּנְתַתִּים֙ וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֣י אוֹתָ֔ם וְנָתַתִּ֧י אֶת־מִקְדָּשִׁ֛י בְּתוֹכָ֖ם לְעוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

And wᵊkārattî to them lāhem covenant of bᵊrît šālôm covenant of bᵊrît ʿôlām it will be yihyeh to them ʾôtām and ûnᵊtattîm and wᵊhirbêtî them ʾôtām and wᵊnātattî my ʾet-miqdāšî in their midst bᵊtôkām forever lᵊʿôlām

Grammar Details

• *wᵊkārattî*: verb, qal perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will cut/make
• *lāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to them
• *bᵊrît*: noun, feminine singular construct - covenant of
• *šālôm*: noun, masculine singular - peace
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - eternity/forever
• *yihyeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *ûnᵊtattîm*: conjunction with verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and I will place them
• *wᵊhirbêtî*: verb, hiphil perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will multiply
• *wᵊnātattî*: verb, qal perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will place
• *ʾet-miqdāšî*: direct object marker with noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my sanctuary
• *bᵊtôkām*: preposition with noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - in their midst
• *lᵊʿôlām*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - forever

Word Meanings

• *kārat*: cut/make (covenant)
• *bᵊrît*: covenant/agreement/treaty
• *šālôm*: peace/welfare/prosperity
• *miqdāš*: sanctuary/holy place/temple
• *hirbêtî*: multiply/increase/make numerous

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:3 : 3 Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
• Ezek 43:7 : 7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;
• Jer 30:19 : 19 And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.
• Ezek 34:25 : 25 And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods.
• 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 36:37 : 37 This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.
• Ezek 11:16 : 16 For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.
• Ps 89:3-4 : 3 I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant; 4 I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.)
• Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Lev 26:11-12 : 11 And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust. 12 And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
• 1 Kgs 8:20-21 : 20 And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 21 In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.
• Ps 68:18 : 18 You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
• Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
• Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?
• Isa 59:20-21 : 20 And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord. 21 And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.
• Ezek 45:1-6 : 1 And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy. 2 Of this, a square five hundred long and five hundred wide is to be for the holy place, with a space of fifty cubits all round it. 3 And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy. 4 This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle. 5 A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places. 6 And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel.
• Hos 2:18-23 : 18 And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace. 19 And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies. 20 I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord. 21 And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth; 22 And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel; 23 And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.
• Zech 2:5 : 5 And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.
• Zech 8:4-5 : 4 This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old. 5 And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.
• John 14:27 : 27 May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 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.
• Ezek 16:62 : 62 And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:
• Jer 31:27 : 27 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will have Israel and Judah planted with the seed of man and with the seed of beast.
• Jer 32:40 : 40 And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
• Heb 13:20-21 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement, 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
• Heb 6:14 : 14 Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.