Hebrews 8:10

“This is the covenant that I will make with the Israelites [MTY], after the first covenant has ended [MTY],” says the Lord: “I will enable them to understand my laws [MTY], and I will enable them to obey them (OR, truly know them) [MTY] sincerely. I will be their God, and they will be my people [DOU].

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

In Context

9That covenant will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I led them out of Egypt [MET] like a father leads a child by the hand. They did not continue to obey my covenant, so I rejected them,” says the Lord.

11As a result, no one will need to teach a fellow citizen or tell his fellow kinsmen, ‘ You need to know the Lord,’ because all my people will know me: My people of every status will know me.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5So now, if you will do what I tell you and obey all that I command you, you will be my own people. All the people-groups on the earth are mine, but you will be ◄dearer/more special► to me than all the other people-groups.

Exodus 24:7Then he/I took the scroll on which he/I had written everything that Yahweh had commanded in the agreement that he had made, and he/I read it aloud, while all the people were listening. Then all the people said, “We will do all that Yahweh has told us to do. We will obey everything.”

Exodus 34:27Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Write down the words that I have told you. By giving you these commands, I have made a solemn agreement with you and with the other Israeli people.”

Song of Solomon 2:16You who love me, I belong to you and you belong to me, and you experience pleasure when you kiss my lips like [MET] a shepherd enjoys taking care of his sheep.

Jeremiah 31:1Yahweh says that at that time, he will be the God who is worshiped by all the clans in Israel, and they will be his people.

Jeremiah 32:38They will be my people, and I will be their God.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 8:7-13

The Old and New Covenant. ( a. d. 62.) 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their… Read the whole commentary →

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