Ezekiel 37:24

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.

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.

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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.

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 Lord spoke his word to me, saying, ¹⁶ "Human, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and all the Israelites with him.' Then take another stick and write on it, ‘The stick of Ephraim, for Joseph and all the Israelites with him.' ¹⁷ Then join them together into one stick so they will be one in your hand. ¹⁸ "When your people say to you, ‘Explain to us what you mean by this,' ¹⁹ say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I will take the stick for Joseph and the tribes of Israel with him, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and I will put it with the stick of Judah. I will make them into one stick, and they will be one in my hand.' ²⁰ Hold the sticks on which you wrote these names in your hand so the people can see them. ²¹ Say to the people, ‘This is what the Lord God says: I am going to take the people of Israel from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land. ²² I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will rule all of them. They will never again be two nations; they will not be divided into two kingdoms anymore. ²³ They will not continue to make themselves unclean by their idols, their statues of gods which I hate, or by their sins. I will save them from all the ways they sin and turn against me, and I will make them clean. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. ²⁴ "‘My servant David will be their king, and they will all have one shepherd. They will live by my rules and obey my laws.

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
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived.

Genesis 37:2
This is the family history of Jacob: Joseph was a young man, seventeen years old. He and his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives, cared for the flocks. Joseph gave his father bad reports about his brothers.

Psalms 35:7
For no reason they spread out their net to trap me; for no reason they dug a pit for me.

Psalms 40:2
He lifted me out of the pit of destruction, out of the sticky mud. He stood me on a rock and made my feet steady.

Psalms 88:6
You have brought me close to death; I am almost in the dark place of the dead.

Psalms 88:8
You have taken my friends away from me and have made them hate me. I am trapped and cannot escape.

Jeremiah 38:6
So the officers took Jeremiah and put him into the well of Malkijah, the king's son, which was in the courtyard of the guards. The officers used ropes to lower Jeremiah into the well, which did not have any water in it, only mud. And Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Lamentations 4:20
The Lord 's appointed king, who was our very breath, was caught in their traps. We had said about him, "We will be protected by him among the nations."

Zechariah 9:11
As for you, because of the blood of the agreement with you I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

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.