Ezekiel 37:26

World English Bible (2000)

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 forevermore.

📖 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 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Ezek 43:7 : 7 He said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
• Jer 30:19 : 19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
• Ezek 34:25 : 25 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
• Ezek 36:10 : 10 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built;
• Ezek 36:37 : 37 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
• Ezek 11:16 : 16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.
• Ps 89:3-4 : 3 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, 4 'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Lev 26:11-12 : 11 I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you. 12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.
• 1 Kgs 8:20-21 : 20 Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 21 There I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt."
• Ps 68:18 : 18 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
• Isa 27:6 : 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
• Isa 49:21 : 21 Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'"
• Isa 59:20-21 : 20 "A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob," says Yahweh. 21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says Yahweh. "My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed," says Yahweh, "from henceforth and forever."
• Ezek 45:1-6 : 1 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of twenty-five thousand [reeds], and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all its border all around. 2 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square all around; and fifty cubits for its suburbs all around. 3 Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy. 4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 Twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, [for] twenty rooms. 6 You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
• Hos 2:18-23 : 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely. 19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh. 21 It will happen in that day, I will respond," says Yahweh, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth; 22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel. 23 I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God!'"
• Zech 2:5 : 5 For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
• Zech 8:4-5 : 4 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. 5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."
• John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
• Ezek 16:62 : 62 I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;
• Jer 31:27 : 27 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of animal.
• Jer 32:40 : 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Heb 13:20-21 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, 21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Heb 6:14 : 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."