The Lord Is There

The Lord Is There (Hebrew: Yahweh-shammah) appears once in Scripture as the new name of the restored Jerusalem in the climactic final verse of Ezekiel's long visionary catalog: "It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there" (Ezekiel 48:35). The new name closes Ezekiel's book on the promise that the divine presence which had departed from the old Jerusalem in the early visions (Ezekiel 10-11) will return permanently to dwell in the restored city — a typological foreshadowing the New Testament picks up in Revelation 21:3 ("Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them").