Ezekiel 20:37
Good News Translation
"I will take firm control of you and make you obey my covenant.

New Revised Standard Version
I will make you pass under the staff, and will bring you within the bond of the covenant.

Contemporary English Version
I will force each of you to obey the regulations of our solemn agreement.

New American Bible
Thus I will make you pass under the staff and will impose on you the terms of the covenant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you into the bands of the covenant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you into the bands of the covenant.

pass

Ezekiel 34:17 And as for you, O my flocks, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I judge between cattle and cattle, of rams and of he goats.

Leviticus 27:32 Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd's rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:13 And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards the south: and in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda shall the flocks pass again under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith the Lord.

Matthew 25:32,33 And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: . . .

I will

Ezekiel 16:59,60 For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant: . . .

Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you. And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,

Psalm 89:30-32 And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: . . .

Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

the bond.

Context
Judgment and Restoration
36As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God. 37And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you into the bands of the covenant.38And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord.…
Cross References
Leviticus 27:32
Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd's rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:13
And in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities of the plains, and in the cities that are towards the south: and in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda shall the flocks pass again under the hand of him that numbereth them, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:62
And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,

Ezekiel 34:25
And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure in the forests.

Ezekiel 37:26
And I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will establish them, and will multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.

Ezekiel 20:36
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