Ezekiel 26:21

26:21 I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more! Though you are sought after, you will never be found again, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 37:28

37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” ¹ 

Ezekiel 43:9

43:9 Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

Ezekiel 37:26

37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. ²  I will establish them, ³  increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

Ezekiel 37:25

37:25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

Ezekiel 43:7

43:7 He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne ⁴  and the place for the soles of my feet, ⁵  where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die. ⁶ 

¹ sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.

¹ sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.

² tn Heb “give them.”

¹ sn God’s throne is mentioned in Isa 6:1; Jer 3:17.

² sn See 1 Chr 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7; Isa 60:13; Lam 2:1.

³ tn Heb “by their corpses in their death.” But the term normally translated “corpses” is better understood here as a reference to funeral pillars or funerary offerings. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:583-85, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:257.