Ezekiel 39:28 Cross References
Ezekiel 39:28
28: Then my people will know that I am the LORD their God--responsible for sending them away to exile and responsible for bringing them home. I will leave none of my people behind.
Ezekiel 39:22
- And from that time on the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.
Isaiah 27:12
- Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together one by one like handpicked grain. He will bring them to his great threshing floor--from the Euphrates River in the east to the brook of Egypt in the west.
Romans 11:1
- I ask, then, has God rejected his people, the Jews? Of course not! Remember that I myself am a Jew, a descendant of Abraham and a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
- No, God has not rejected his own people, whom he chose from the very beginning. Do you remember what the Scriptures say about this? Elijah the prophet complained to God about the people of Israel and said,
- "Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I alone am left, and now they are trying to kill me, too."
- And do you remember God's reply? He said, "You are not the only one left. I have seven thousand others who have never bowed down to Baal!"
- It is the same today, for not all the Jews have turned away from God. A few are being saved as a result of God's kindness in choosing them.
Romans 9:6
- Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to the Jews? No, for not everyone born into a Jewish family is truly a Jew!
- Just the fact that they are descendants of Abraham doesn't make them truly Abraham's children. For the Scriptures say, "Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted," though Abraham had other children, too.
- This means that Abraham's physical descendants are not necessarily children of God. It is the children of the promise who are considered to be Abraham's children.
Ezekiel 34:30
- In this way, they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them. And they will know that they, the people of Israel, are my people, says the Sovereign LORD.
Amos 9:9
- "For I have commanded that Israel be persecuted by the other nations as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not one true kernel will be lost.
Nehemiah 1:8
- "Please remember what you told your servant Moses: 'If you sin, I will scatter you among the nations.
- But if you return to me and obey my commands, even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.'
- "We are your servants, the people you rescued by your great power and might.
Hosea 2:20
- I will be faithful to you and make you mine, and you will finally know me as LORD.
Deuteronomy 30:3
- then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you.
- Though you are at the ends of the earth, the LORD your God will go and find you and bring you back again.