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

And there shall you remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

And he said unto me, Son of man, 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, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their harlotry, nor by the dead bodies of their kings on their high places.

And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green cypress tree. In me is your fruit found.

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

But

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

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be you holy: for I am the LORD your God.

Feed your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Will cleanse

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

They be

My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto you, and to your descendants after you.

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the escape from death.

At the same time, says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, you are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, you are the sons of the living God.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, They are my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

General references

But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.

And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand.