Yehezkiel 43:7

43:7 He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne ¹  and the place for the soles of my feet, ²  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. ³ 

Yehezkiel 37:26-28

37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. ⁴  I will establish them, ⁵  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.’” ⁶ 

[43:7]  ¹ sn God’s throne is mentioned in Isa 6:1; Jer 3:17.

[43:7]  ² sn See 1 Chr 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7; Isa 60:13; Lam 2:1.

[43:7]  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.

[37:26]  ⁴ sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.

[37:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “give them.”

[37:28]  ⁶ sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.