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 ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.

and He saith unto me: 'Son of man, the place of My throne, And the place of the soles of My feet, Where I dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel to the age, Defile no more do the house of Israel My holy name, They, and their kings, by their whoredom, And by the carcases of their kings -- their high places.

And the idols -- they completely pass away.

O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I -- I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: 'I am as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.

In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.

And every pot in Jerusalem, and in Judah, Have been holy to Jehovah of Hosts, And all those sacrificing have come in, And have taken of them, and boiled in them, And there is no merchant any more in the house of Jehovah of Hosts in that day!

But

And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land,

And ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I am Jehovah your God;

Rule Thou Thy people with Thy rod, The flock of Thine inheritance, Dwelling alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel, They enjoy Bashan and Gilead as in days of old.

Will cleanse

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the bathing of the water in the saying,

for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

They be

And My tabernacle hath been over them, And I have been to them for God, And they have been to Me for a people.

And ye have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I -- I am to you for God.

And known have the house of Israel that I am Jehovah their God, From that day and henceforth.

'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

God Himself is to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, I am for God to all families of Israel, And they -- they are to Me for a people.

and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;

and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye are not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;

And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'

and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, 'Lo, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,

General references

And they have served Jehovah their God, And David their king whom I raise up to them.

And they have gone in thither. And turned aside all its detestable things, And all its abominations -- out of it.

and bring them near one unto another, to thee, for one stick, and they have become one in thy hand.