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The new name of the restored Jerusalem in Ezekiels final vision — Yahweh-shammah — sealing the climactic promise that the divine presence will dwell there forever
JudeaThe 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").
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