My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 37 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
The conflated citation also draws Ezekiel's new-covenant promise 'My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people'; the 'dwelling/tabernacle among them' language is closer to Ezekiel than Leviticus. A genuine second link of the catena, high volume and coherence within the temple theme.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Covenant-dwelling formula: 'My dwelling place (LXX kataskenosis) will be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people' — directly behind v.3 ('God's dwelling is with people... they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God'). Recurrence with Lev 26 strengthens.
High confidenceEzekiel's restoration promise, 'My dwelling place shall be with them... I will be their God and they shall be my people,' projects God's sanctuary into the eschatological community. Paul's church-as-temple indwelt by the Spirit realizes this promised dwelling-with-the-people, making the allusion coherent with Second-Temple temple-eschatology.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'My dwelling place shall be with them... I will be their God' parallels the church as 'a habitation of God in the Spirit.' Ezekiel's eschatological-covenant dwelling, joined to Spirit-language, coheres with Paul's Spirit-indwelt temple.
Medium confidence'My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God,' the new-covenant restatement of God dwelling among his people, reinforces the indwelling promise of 14:23. Recurrence of the 'dwelling with them' formula (Lev/Ezek) strengthens Volume; medium because John gives the topos individual rather than national scope.
Medium confidence"My dwelling place (LXX kataskenosis) shall be with them, and I will be their God" — the eschatological tabernacling-with-the-redeemed promise, near-synonymous with Lev 26:11 and directly echoed in the skenoo of 7:15 (and again Rev 21:3). Reinforces the new-covenant-presence reading.
Medium confidence'My dwelling place shall be with them' continues the indwelling-sanctuary stream Paul figurally applies to the Spirit-filled body in v.19. Faint and recurrent rather than a single discrete source.
Low confidence