Quotes About Community

I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Yes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children.

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.

Then they will say, ëThis land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.í

This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ëOur bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.í

“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ëBelonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.í Then take another stick and write on it: ëBelonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.í

Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.

When your people ask you, ëWonít you explain to us what you mean by these?í

They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Get ready; prepare yourself, you and all your company gathered around you; you will be their guard.

There were three gate chambers on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the gateposts on either side also had the same measurements.

They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.

It will be a holy portion of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister before the LORD. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary.

An adjacent area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide shall belong to the Levites who minister in the temple; it will be their possession for towns in which to live.

As the property of the city, you are to set aside an area 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the holy district. It will belong to the whole house of Israel.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëEnough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.í

This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel.