23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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. …
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. …
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-28)Here are more exceedingly great and precious promises made of the happy state of the Jews after their return to their own land; but they have a further reference to the kingdom of the Messiah and the glories of gospel-times. I. It is here promised that Ephraim and Judah shall be happily united in brotherly love and mutual serviceableness; so that whereas, ever since the desertion of the ten tribes…
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