Jeremiah 24:7

24:7 I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I ¹  am the Lord. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly ²  return to me.’

Jeremiah 30:22

30:22 Then you will again be my people

and I will be your God. ³ 

Jeremiah 31:31

31:31 “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, ⁴  “when I will make a new covenant ⁵  with the people of Israel and Judah. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 31:33

31:33 “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel ⁷  after I plant them back in the land,” ⁸  says the Lord. ⁹  “I will ¹⁰  put my law within them ¹¹  and write it on their hearts and minds. ¹²  I will be their God and they will be my people. ¹³ 

Jeremiah 32:28

32:28 Therefore I, the Lord, say: ¹⁴  ‘I will indeed hand ¹⁵  this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonian army. ¹⁶  They will capture it.

Genesis 17:8

17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing ¹⁷  – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent ¹⁸  possession. I will be their God.”

Leviticus 26:12

26:12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

Ezekiel 11:20

11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. ¹⁹ 

Ezekiel 14:11

14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, ²⁰  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 36:28

36:28 Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God. ²¹ 

Ezekiel 37:23

37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness ²²  by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

Ezekiel 37:27

37:27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Zechariah 8:8

8:8 And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, ²³  in truth and righteousness.’

Zechariah 13:9

13:9 Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire;

I will refine them like silver is refined

and will test them like gold is tested.

They will call on my name and I will answer;

I will say, ‘These are my people,’

and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’” ²⁴ 

Zechariah 13:2

13:2 And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove ²⁵  the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Colossians 1:16

1:16 for all things in heaven and on earth were created by him – all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, ²⁶  whether principalities or powers – all things were created through him and for him.

Hebrews 8:10

8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put ²⁷  my laws in their minds ²⁸  and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. ²⁹ 

[24:7]  ¹ tn Heb “I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord.” For the use of “heart” here referring to “inclinations, resolutions, and determinations of the will” see BDB 525 s.v. לֵב 4 and compare the usage in 2 Chr 12:14. For the use of “know” to mean “acknowledge” see BDB 384 s.v. יָדַע Qal.1.f and compare the usage in Jer 39:4. For the construction “know ‘someone’ that he…” = “know that ‘someone’…” see GKC 365 §117.h and compare the usage in 2 Sam 3:25.

[24:7]  ² tn Heb “with all their heart.”

[30:22]  ³ sn This was their highest privilege (cf. Exod 6:7, Lev 26:12; Jer 24:7) but also their greatest responsibility (cf. Jer 7:3; 11:4). It is a formula referring to a covenant relationship in which God pledges to protect, provide, and be present with his people and they in turn promise to be loyal and obedient to him (see Deut 26:17-18; 29:10-13).

[31:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:31]  ⁵ tn Or “a renewed covenant” (also in vv. 22-23).

[31:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”

[31:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “with the house of Israel.” All commentators agree that the term here refers to both the whole nation which was divided into the house of Israel and the house of Judah in v. 30.

[31:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “after those days.” Commentators are generally agreed that this refers to the return from exile and the repopulation of the land referred to in vv. 27-28 and not to something subsequent to the time mentioned in v. 30. This is the sequencing that is also presupposed in other new covenant passages such as Deut 30:1-6; Ezek 11:17-20; 36:24-28.

[31:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “‘But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days:’ says the Lord, ‘I will….’” The sentence has been reworded and restructured to avoid the awkwardness of the original style.

[31:33]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in their inward parts.” The Hebrew word here refers to the seat of the thoughts, emotions, and decisions (Jer 9:8 [9:7 HT]). It is essentially synonymous with “heart” in Hebrew psychological terms.

[31:33]  ¹² tn The words “and minds” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation to bring the English psychology more into line with the Hebrew where the “heart” is the center both of knowing/thinking/reflecting and deciding/willing.

[31:33]  ¹³ sn Compare Jer 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 and see the study note on 30:2.

[32:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Thus says the Lord.” However, the speech has already been introduced as first person. So the first person style has been retained for smoother narrative style.

[32:28]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of…”

[32:28]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

[17:8]  ¹⁷ tn The verbal root is גּוּר (gur, “to sojourn, to reside temporarily,” i.e., as a resident alien). It is the land in which Abram resides, but does not yet possess as his very own.

[17:8]  ¹⁸ tn Or “as an eternal.”

[11:20]  ¹⁹ sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).

[14:11]  ²⁰ sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.

[36:28]  ²¹ sn This promise reflects the ancient covenantal ideal (see Exod 6:7).

[37:23]  ²² tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.

[8:8]  ²³ sn The affirmation They will be my people, and I will be their God speaks of covenant renewal, a restoration of the unbroken fellowship the Lord desired to have with his people but which their disloyalty had shattered. In the eschaton God and Israel will be in covenant union once again (cf. Jer 31:33).

[13:9]  ²⁴ sn The expression I will say ‘It is my people,’ and they will say ‘the Lord is my God’ is reminiscent of the restoration of Israel predicted by Hosea, who said that those who had been rejected as God’s people would be reclaimed and once more become his sons and daughters (Hos 2:23).

[13:2]  ²⁵ tn Heb “cut off” (so NRSV); NAB “destroy”; NIV “banish.”

[1:16]  ²⁶ tn BDAG 579 s.v. κυριότης 3 suggests “bearers of the ruling powers, dominions” here.

[8:10]  ²⁷ tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”

[8:10]  ²⁸ tn Grk “mind.”

[8:10]  ²⁹ tn Grk “I will be to them for a God and they will be to me for a people,” following the Hebrew constructions of Jer 31.