Ezekiel 20:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ I will make you pass under the staff and will bring you within the bond of the covenant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under the rod [as the shepherd does his sheep when he counts them, and I will count you as Mine and I will constrain you] and bring you into the covenant to which you are permanently bound. [Lev. 27:32.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

Common English Bible

³⁷ I will make you walk under the rod, and I will bring you into the covenant bond.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And I will subject you to my scepter, and I will lead you into the bonds of the covenant.

Ezekiel 20:37 Cross References

Jeremiah 33:13

In the towns of the hill country, of the Shephelah, and of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places around Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:62

I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,

Ezekiel 34:17

As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: I shall judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and goats:

Ezekiel 34:25

I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild animals from the land, so that they may live in the wild and sleep in the woods securely.

Ezekiel 37:26

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will bless them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant, and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

Leviticus 27:32

All tithes of herd and flock, every tenth one that passes under the shepherd’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord.

Amos 3:2

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.