Ezekiel 37:24

Myles Coverdale Bible

Dauid my seruaunt shalbe their kinge, & they all shal haue one shepherde only. They shal walke in my lawes, and my commaundementes shalt they both kepe & fulfill.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my ordinances, and keep my statutes and obey them.

Hebrew Names Version
My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

King James Version
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

English Standard Version
"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.

New American Standard Bible
"And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and follow them.

New Century Version
"‘My servant David will be their king, and they will all have one shepherd. They will live by my rules and obey my laws.

Amplified Bible
"My servant David will be king over them, and they all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Dauid my seruant shalbe king ouer them, and they all shall haue one shepheard: they shall also walke in my iudgements, and obserue my statutes, and doe them.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

Legacy Standard Bible
"And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My judgments and keep My statutes and do them.

Berean Standard Bible
My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.

Contemporary English Version
Their king will always come from the family of my servant King David and will care for them like a shepherd. The people of Israel will faithfully obey my laws. They and their descendants will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, just as their ancestors did.

Complete Jewish Bible
My servant David will be king over them, and all of them will have one shepherd; they will live by my rulings and keep and observe my regulations.

Darby Translation
And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: and they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my statutes, and do them.

Easy-to-Read Version
"‘And my servant David will be the king over them. There will be only one shepherd over all of them. They will live by my rules and obey my laws. They will do the things I tell them.

George Lamsa Translation
And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall walk in my judgments and keep my commandments and do them.

Good News Translation
A king like my servant David will be their king. They will all be united under one ruler and will obey my laws faithfully.

Lexham English Bible
"‘"And my servant David will be king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them.

Literal Translation
And My Servant, David, shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments and keep My statutes, and do them.

American Standard Version
And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in mine ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Bible in Basic English
And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And My servant David shall be king over them, and they all shall have one shepherd; they shall also walk in Mine ordinances, and observe My statutes, and do them.

King James Version (1611)
And Dauid my seruant shall be King ouer them, and they all shall haue one shepheard: they shall also walke in my iudgements, and obserue my statutes, and doe them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Dauid my seruaunt shalbe their king, and they all shall haue one sheepheard only: they shall walke in my iudgementes, and my commaundementes shall they kepe, and fulfill them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And my servant David shall be a prince in the midst of them: there shall be one shepherd of them all; for they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my judgments, and do them.

English Revised Version
And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

World English Bible
My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And my seruaunt Dauid schal be kyng on hem, and o scheepherde schal be of alle hem; thei schulen go in my domes, and thei schulen kepe my comaundementis, and schulen do tho.

Update Bible Version
And my slave David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

New English Translation
"‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow my regulations and carefully observe my statutes.

New King James Version
"David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.

New Living Translation
"My servant David will be their king, and they will have only one shepherd. They will obey my regulations and be careful to keep my decrees.

New Life Bible
"My servant David will be their king, and they will have one shepherd. They will follow and keep My Laws, and obey them.

New Revised Standard
My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And my servant David shall be king over them, And one shepherd, shall they all have, And in my regulations, shall they walk, And my statutes, shall they observe and do them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my servant David shall be king over them, and they shall have one shepherd: they shall walk in my judgments, and shall keep my commandments, and shall do them.

Revised Standard Version
"My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.

Young's Literal Translation
And My servant David [is] king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ The worde of the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge: ¹⁶ Thou sonne of man, take a sticke and wryte vpon it: Vnto Iuda & to the children of Israel his companyons. Then take another sticke, and wryte vpon it: Vnto Ioseph the stocke of Ephraim, and to all the housholde of Israel his companyons. ¹⁷ And than take both these together in thine honde, so shal there be one stycke therof. ¹⁸ Now yf the childre of thy people saye vnto the: wilt thou not shewe vs, what thou meanest by these? ¹⁹ Then geue them this answere: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil take the stocke of Ioseph, which is in the honde of Ephraim and of the trybes of Israel his felowes, and wil put them to the stocke of Iuda, & make them one stocke, and they shalbe one in my honde. ²⁰ And the two stickes where vpon thou wrytest, shalt thou haue in thine honde, that they maye se, ²¹ and shalt saye vnto them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: beholde I wil take awaye the childre of Israel from amonge the Heithen, vnto whom they be gone, and wil gather them together on euery syde, and bringe them agayne in to their owne londe: ²² yee I wil make one people of the in ye londe, vpon the mountaynes of Israel, and they all shal haue but one kinge. They shall nomore be two peoples from hensforth, nether be deuyded in to two kingdomes: ²³ they shal also defyle the selues nomore with their abhominacions, Idols and all their wickeddoinges. I wil helpe the out of all their dwellinge places, wherin they haue synned: & will so clense them, that they shalbe my people, and I their God. ²⁴ Dauid my seruaunt shalbe their kinge, & they all shal haue one shepherde only. They shal walke in my lawes, and my commaundementes shalt they both kepe & fulfill.

Bible Verse Review
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David: Ezekiel 37:25, Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 55:4, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 30:9, Hosea 3:5, Luke 1:32

one: Ezekiel 37:22, Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel 34:24, Psalms 78:71, Psalms 78:72, Psalms 80:1, Ecclesiastes 12:11, Isaiah 40:11, Micah 5:2, Micah 5:4, Zechariah 13:7, John 10:11, John 10:14-16, Ephesians 4:4-6, Hebrews 13:20, 1 Peter 5:4

they shall: Ezekiel 36:27, Deuteronomy 30:6, Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah 32:39, 1 Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 2:12, Philippians 2:13, Titus 2:11-13, Titus 3:3-8, 1 John 2:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:13 - the land Leviticus 18:4 - General Numbers 27:16 - set a man Deuteronomy 4:1 - unto the statutes Deuteronomy 5:32 - observe Deuteronomy 6:1 - the commandments Deuteronomy 12:28 - General Deuteronomy 30:8 - General 2 Samuel 5:2 - feed 2 Chronicles 10:16 - David Psalms 89:29 - throne Isaiah 1:26 - And I will Isaiah 29:22 - Jacob shall Isaiah 37:35 - and for Jeremiah 3:15 - And I Jeremiah 23:6 - Judah Jeremiah 30:21 - governor Jeremiah 31:10 - and keep Jeremiah 33:22 - so Ezekiel 18:9 - walked Ezekiel 20:19 - walk Ezekiel 21:27 - until Ezekiel 45:7 - General Ezekiel 48:21 - the residue Daniel 12:1 - the great Amos 9:11 - raise Zephaniah 3:15 - the king Zechariah 1:16 - I am Zechariah 3:8 - my Zechariah 12:8 - the house Matthew 2:6 - rule Matthew 21:5 - thy King Matthew 25:34 - the King Mark 11:10 - the kingdom Luke 1:69 - in John 3:10 - and knowest John 12:34 - Christ Acts 1:6 - restore Acts 13:22 - he raised Acts 13:34 - the sure Acts 26:6 - the promise 1 Peter 2:25 - the Shepherd

Cross-References

Genesis 37:1
Iacob dwelt in ye lande, wherin his father was a straunger, namely in the lade of Canaa.

Genesis 37:2
And these are ye generacios of Iacob. Ioseph was seuetene yeare olde, wha he became a keper of the catell wt his brethren, & the lad was wt the children of Bilha & Silpa his fathers wyues, and tolde their father of ye euell reporte yt was of the.

Psalms 35:7
For they haue pryuely laied their nett to destroye me without a cause, yee and made a pitte for my soule, which I neuer deserued.

Psalms 40:2
He brought me out of the horrible pitte, out of the myre and claye: he set my fete vpo the rocke, and ordred my goinges.

Psalms 88:6
Thy indignacion lieth hard vpon me, and thou vexest me with all thy floudes.

Psalms 88:8
I am so fast in preson, that I can not get forth.

Jeremiah 38:6
Then toke they Ieremy, and cast him in to the dongeon off Malchias the sonne off Amalech, that dwelt in the fore entre off the preson. And they let downe Ieremy wt coardes in to a dongeon, where there was no water, but myre.

Lamentations 4:20
The very breth of oure mouth; euen the anoynted LORDE himself shalbe take in oure synnes, of whom we saye: Vnder his shadowe we shal be preserued amonge the Heithen.

Zechariah 9:11
Thou also thorow the bloude of thy couenaunt: shalt let thy presoners out of the pytte, wherin is no water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David my servant shall be king over them,.... The King Messiah, as Kimchi interprets it; and so Abarbinel i and others; being of the seed of David, and of whom David was an eminent type; and who, as Mediator, is the Lord's servant, and as man appeared in the form of one: this shows that this prophecy looks further than the times of deliverance from the Babylonish captivity:

and they all shall have one shepherd: or king, the same as before: kings are called shepherds; see Ezekiel 34:23:

and they shall also walk in my judgments, and keep my statutes, and do them; not the statutes and ordinances of the ceremonial law, which are abolished; and which the Jews, when converted, shall have no regard unto; but rather the precepts of the moral law, and chiefly the evangelic ordinances of baptism and the Lord's supper; which ordinances they shall walk in, and attend unto with constancy and pleasure; and which statutes they shall keep, as they have been delivered, impartially, without delay, in faith and love, and with a view to the glory of God; see Ezekiel 36:27.

i Mashmiah Jeshuah, fol. 47. 4. Vid. Sepher Ikkarim, l. 2. c. 28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A prophecy of the reunion of Israel and Judah, the incorporation of Israel under one Ruler, the kingdom of Messiah upon earth and in heaven.

Ezekiel 37:16

One stick - So in the marginal reference the names of the tribes had been written on rods or sticks.

For Judah ... - To the house of David had remained faithful, not only Judah, but also Benjamin, Levi, and part of Simeon, and individual members of various tribes 2 Chronicles 11:12-16. Compare the marginal references.

Joseph ... Ephraim - Compare Psalms 78:67; Hosea 5:5 ff “Joseph” is the general name here for the ten tribes, including “Ephraim,” the chief tribe, and his companions. Omit “for” before “all.” “All the house of Israel” is here the ten tribes.

Ezekiel 37:19

In the hand of Ephraim - Because Ephraim was the ruling tribe; the words are contrasted with “in mine hand.”

Ezekiel 37:20

This sign was literally enacted in the presence of the people, not, like some signs, merely in vision (see the Ezekiel 3:1 note).

Ezekiel 37:21

The gathering together of the children of Israel was to take effect in the first place in the return from Babylon, when the distinction of Israel and Judah should cease. The full completion concerns times still future, when all Israel shall come in to acknowledge the rule of Christ.

Ezekiel 37:22

One king - The restoration of Israel to their native soil will lead the way to the coming of the promised King, the Son of David, who will gather into His kingdom the true Israel, all who shall by faith be acknowledged as the Israel of God. The reign of the One King David is the reign of Christ in His kingdom, the Church.

Ezekiel 37:25, Ezekiel 37:26

An enlargement of the promises. The kingdom is to be “forever,” the covenant “everlasting.” This looks forward to the consummation of all God’s promises 1 Corinthians 15:24, 1 Corinthians 15:28.

Ezekiel 37:27

This gives a final blessing reserved for God’s accepted servants. The tabernacle and temple were outward symbols of His presence. The re-erection of the temple by Zerubbabel was the first step to a restoration of the presence of God. The second step was the presence of Christ, first in the flesh, then in His Church, and finally the eternal presence of God and of the Lamb in the New Jerusalem Revelation 21:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 37:24. And David my servant shall be King — That this refers to Jesus Christ, see proved, Ezekiel 34:23.