Created Saturday 10 May 2014
(46) Eseg.37:12-14, 21-28
"12 Daarom, profeteer en sê aan hulle: So spreek die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek sal julle grafte oopmaak en julle uit jul grafte laat opkom, o my volk! En Ek sal julle bring in die land van Israel. 13 En julle sal weet dat Ek die HERE is as Ek julle grafte oopmaak en julle uit jul grafte laat opkom, o my volk! 14 En Ek sal my Gees in julle gee, dat julle lewendig kan word; en Ek sal julle vestig in jul land; en julle sal weet dat Ek, die HERE, dit gespreek en gedoen het, spreek die HERE. ...
21 en sê vir hulle: So spreek die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek gaan die kinders van Israel haal tussen die nasies uit waarheen hulle getrek het, en Ek sal hulle van alle kante bymekaar laat kom en hulle bring in hul land. 22 En Ek sal hulle een volk maak in die land, op die berge van Israel; en een Koning sal vir hulle almal koning wees; en hulle sal nie meer twee nasies wees nie en verder nie meer in twee koninkryke verdeeld wees nie. 23 En hulle sal hul nie meer verontreinig met hulle drekgode en hulle verfoeisels en met al hulle oortredinge nie; en Ek sal hulle verlos uit al hulle woonplekke waarin hulle gesondig het, en sal hulle reinig. So sal hulle dan vir my 'n volk wees, en Ek vir hulle 'n God wees. 24 En my kneg Dawid sal koning oor hulle wees, en hulle sal almal een herder hê; en hulle sal in my verordeninge wandel en my insettinge onderhou en daarna handel. 25 En hulle sal woon in die land wat Ek aan my kneg Jakob gegee het, waar julle vaders in gewoon het; ja, húlle sal daarin woon, hulle kinders en hulle kindskinders tot in ewigheid; en my kneg Dawid sal hulle vors wees vir ewig. 26 En Ek sal 'n verbond van vrede met hulle sluit, dit sal 'n ewige verbond met hulle wees; en Ek sal hulle daar bring en hulle vermenigvuldig; en Ek sal my heiligdom in hulle midde vestig vir ewig. 27 En my tabernakel sal oor hulle wees, en Ek sal vir hulle 'n God wees en hulle vir my 'n volk wees. 28 En die nasies sal weet dat Ek die HERE is wat Israel heilig as my heiligdom vir ewig in hulle midde sal wees."
"Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”
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then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” "
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