Ezekiel 43:7

And he said unto me, Son of man, [this] is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever: and the house of Israel shall not defile any more my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their lewdness, nor by the carcasses of their kings on their high-places.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.

In Context

6And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and a man was standing alongside of me.

8Inasmuch as they placed their threshold by my threshold, and their door-posts close by my door-posts, and the wall being only between me and them, and they defiled my holy name by their abominations which they committed; so that I made an end of them in my anger.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:45And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I will be to them for a God.

1 Kings 8:13I have indeed built a dwelling-house for thee, a settled place for thy abode for ever.

1 Chronicles 28:2Then arose king David upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people! I had in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and I had made preparations to build;

Psalms 68:17(68:18) The chariots of God are two myriads; thousands of angels [follow him]: the Lord is among them: so is Sinai holy [among mountains].

Psalms 99:1The Lord reigneth; people tremble: he sitteth enthroned over the cherubim; the earth is moved.

Psalms 132:14This is my resting-place for evermore: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:2-7

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.… Read the whole commentary →

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