Ezekiel 16:62
in Ezekiel 16So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,
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ASV
And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah;
KJV
And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord:
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This verse in Ezekiel 16
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd I will establish my covenant with thee,.... See Gill on Eze 16:60; and which is repeated for the comfort of the Lord's people, being ashamed upon the remembrance of their evil ways; and to show the certainty of it, as well as because it is a matter of the greatest importance: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; a covenant keeping God; true and faithful to my promises, and able to make them good: this is a principal blessing of the covenant of grace, to know the Lord, Jer 31:34.
This site's exposition
For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done
on Ezekiel 16:59-63
The chapter's long indictment ends where its own words carry it: the Lord remembers his covenant with her in the days of her youth and establishes an everlasting covenant, mercy standing on the far side of every charge just named. Keil reads the everlasting covenant as the same new covenant Jeremiah names in the same exile, mercy that answers the record rather than erasing it. The closing note is deliberately not triumphant, never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee, restoration held together with an honesty about what it restores.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
on Ezekiel 16:59-63
(Verse 59 and following) Thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath and broken the covenant. But I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant. Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both the older and the younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of the covenant.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
(Ho 2:19, 20). thou shalt know that I am the Lord--not, as elsewhere, by the judgments falling on thee, but by My so marvellously restoring thee through grace.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַהֲקִימוֹתִ֥י | vahakimoti | and I will establish | H6965 → | 628 times |
| אֲנִ֛י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בְּרִיתִ֖י | beriti | covenant my | H1285 → | 284 times |
| אִתָּ֑ךְ | ʾitakh | with you | H854 → | 929 times |
| וְיָדַ֖עַתְּ | veyadaat | and you will know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֥י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וַהֲקִימוֹתִ֥יand I will establish
vahakimotiH6965 →628 times
אֲנִ֛יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בְּרִיתִ֖יcovenant my
beritiH1285 →284 times
אִתָּ֑ךְwith you
ʾitakhH854 →929 times
וְיָדַ֖עַתְּand you will know
veyadaatH3045 →945 times
כִּֽי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֥יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָֽה׃[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 24:7I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their…
it leads to
- Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 30:22
“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
- Ezekiel 37:23
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse…
- Ezekiel 36:24–28
For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
- Zechariah 8:8
I will bring them back to dwell in Jerusalem, where they will be My people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”
- Hebrews 8:10
Through
Ezekiel 20:37I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 33:13
In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under…
- Leviticus 27:32
Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
- Jeremiah 33:13
Through
Ezekiel 16:60But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
it leads to
- Hosea 2:19–20
So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
- Hosea 2:19–20
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.