Ezekiel 37:23-28

23-28. The new Israel will not be defiled by idolatry, but God will cleanse them and save them from the temptations connected with their ancient dwelling places, and “from all their backslidings” (Ezekiel 37:23, R.V., margin), and a new David, who shall live forever (Ezekiel 37:25), shall be their shepherd-king (Ezekiel 37:24; compare Ezekiel 34:23-24), and they shall dwell in the land which was promised to Jacob and to Abraham before him, though he never made a sandal track in it (Acts 7:5); and it shall be to them and to their children an inheritance forever, according to the new “covenant of peace” (compare Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 16:60), and Jehovah will place them ( or “give it them”) and set his sanctuary in the midst of them (Leviticus 26:11), and his “dwelling place” shall be with them (Ezekiel 37:27; Ezekiel 48:35), and the “nations” shall know that he is the Lord that doth sanctify Israel when his holy sanctuary is permitted to abide in the midst of the nation; which must therefore have been sanctified or separated unto himself as a holy possession. (Compare note Eze 37:15-22 ; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Revelation 21:22.)