Revelation 21:3

I heard a loud voice that spoke from the throne of God. It said, “Listen to this! Now God will live with people. He will live right in the midst of them [DOU]! They will be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

In Context

2I saw God’s holy city, which is the new city of Jerusalem. It was coming down out of heaven from God. The city had been prepared and decorated { God had prepared and decorated the city} as [SIM] a bride is decorated {decorates herself} beautifully in order to marry her husband.

4As a result, he will cause them to no longer be sad. It will be as though he will [MTY] wipe every tear from their eyes. None of them will ever again die or mourn or cry [DOU] or suffer pain, because the former things that make us sad will have disappeared.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:11I will live among you in my Sacred Tent, and I will never reject you.

1 Kings 8:27But God, you cannot really live on the earth. There is surely not enough space for you in the sky, or even in the heaven. So there is surely not enough space for you to live in this temple that my workers have built.

Isaiah 12:6You people of Jerusalem, shout joyfully to praise Yahweh, because he is the great Holy One whom we Israeli people worship, and he lives among us!”

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

Ezekiel 43:7He said, “You human, this is my temple, the place where I sit on my throne and where I rest my feet. This is where I will live with the Israeli people forever. The Israeli people and their kings will never again disgrace me [SYN] by worshiping other gods [MET] at the shrines on their hilltops, or by building monuments to honor their kings who have died.

Zechariah 13:9And I will test the ones that remain alive by causing them to experience great difficulties, to find out if they will continue to worship me. I will purify them like [MET] a man purifies gold or silver by putting it into a very hot fire. Then my people will call to me [MTY] for help, and I will answer them. I will say to them, ‘You are my people,’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is our God.’”

Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:2-9

The New Jerusalem. ( a. d. 95.) 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away… Read the whole commentary →

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