Ezekiel 37:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

Shall they defile

Zechariah 14:21

But

Ezekiel 36:24

Leviticus 20:7

Micah 7:14

Will cleanse

Ephesians 5:26

Hebrews 9:13

1 John 1:7

They be

General references

Jeremiah 30:9

Ezekiel 11:18

Ezekiel 37:17

Bible References

Shall they defile

There you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all your evil deeds which you have done.

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.

And He [the Lord] 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 sons (descendants) of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their [idolatrous] prostitution and by the corpses and monuments of their kings in their graves,

And the idols will completely vanish (be abolished).

O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
It is I who have answered and will care for you and watch over you.
I am like a luxuriant cypress tree;
With Me your fruit is found [which is to nourish you].

“In that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and for the people of Jerusalem for [cleansing from] sin and impurity.

Every cooking pot in [all the houses in] Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take them and boil [their sacrifices] in them. And in that day there will no longer be a Canaanite [that is, any godless or spiritually unclean person, whether Jew or Gentile] in the house of the Lord of hosts.

But

For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.

You shall consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the Lord your God.

Shepherd and rule Your people with Your scepter [of blessing],
The flock of Your inheritance and Your possession
Which dwells alone [separate and secure from attack] in the forest,
In the midst of a garden land.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead
As in the days of old [the days of Moses and Elijah].

Will cleanse

so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God],

For if the sprinkling of [ceremonially] defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a [burnt] heifer is sufficient for the cleansing of the body,

but if we [really] walk in the Light [that is, live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God], as He Himself is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another [He with us, and we with Him], and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin [by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].

They be

My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

You will live in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you will be My people, and I will be your God.

So the house of Israel will know [with absolute confidence] that I am the Lord their God from that day forward.

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

God is to us a God of acts of salvation;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].

“At that time,” says the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”

They will be My people, and I will be their God;

Yet the number of the sons of Israel
Shall be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”

“And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will listen and answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

and then I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “See! The tabernacle of God is among men, and He will live among them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them [as their God,]

General references

But they shall serve the Lord their God and [the descendant of] David their King, whom I will raise up for them.

When they return there, they will remove from it all [traces of] its detestable things and all its repulsive things (remnants of paganism).

Then join them together into one stick, so that they may become one in your hand.