37:24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow 1 my regulations and carefully observe my statutes. 2 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. 37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. 3 I will establish them, 4 increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever. 37:27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” 5
1 tn Heb “walk [in].”
2 tn Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”
3 sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.
4 tn Heb “give them.”
5 sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.