Leviticus - 26:12



12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 26:12.

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and I have walked habitually in your midst, and have become your God, and ye, ye are become My people;
And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.
Ambulabo autem in medio vestri, eroque vobis in Deum, et vos eritis mihi in populum.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And I will walk among you,.... As they journeyed from place to place, he walked among them, in the tabernacle built for him, see 2-Samuel 7:6; it may be expressive of the familiarity and communion which the Lord grants to his people, in and through Christ:
and will be your God; to provide for them, and supply them with all the blessings of his goodness, both in providence and grace; and to protect and defend them against all their enemies, temporal and spiritual:
and ye shall be my people; appear to be a special and peculiar people of his, chosen, redeemed, and sanctified by him, and to whom he bore a special love, and took special care of; see 2-Corinthians 6:16; the Targum of Jonathan of the whole is,"I will make the glory of my Shechinah dwell among you, and my Word shall be unto you for God the Redeemer, and ye shall be to my name for a people of Holy Ones.''

God's walking in the midst of Israel does not refer to His accompanying and leading the people on their journeyings, but denotes the walking of God in the midst of His people in Canaan itself, whereby He would continually manifest Himself to the nation as its God and make them a people of possession, bringing them into closer and closer fellowship with Himself, and giving them all the saving blessings of His covenant of grace.

I will walk among you - As I have hitherto done, both by my pillar of cloud and fire, and by my tabernacle, which have walked or gone along with you in all your journeys, and staid among you in all your stations, to protect, conduct, instruct, and comfort you. And I will own you for that peculiar people which I have singled out of mankind, to bless you here and to save you hereafter.

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