The Chosen People:
Regathered to The Land
Dt 30:1-5
1 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the
curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all
the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all
that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and
with all your soul;
3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on
you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God
has scattered you.
4 If any of your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from
there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back:
5 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed,
and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your
fathers.
Ezr 2:1
Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of
those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had
carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to
his city;
Neh 1:8,9
8 Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying,
If you trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:
9 but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your
outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from
there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to
dwell there.
Ps 53:6
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God brings back his people from captivity,
then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.
Ps 106:47
Save us, Yahweh, our God,
gather us from among the nations,
to give thanks to your holy name,
to triumph in your praise!
Ps 107:2-7
2 Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so,
whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
3 And gathered out of the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.
They found no city to live in.
5 Hungry and thirsty,
their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
and he delivered them out of their distresses,
7 he led them also by a straight way,
that they might go to a city to live in.
Ps 126:1-4
1 When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion,
we were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the nations,
“Yahweh has done great things for them.”
3 Yahweh has done great things for us,
and we are glad.
4 Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh,
like the streams in the Negev.
Ps 147:2
Yahweh builds up Jerusalem.
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
Is 11:11,12,16
11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second
time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt,
from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea.
12 He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the
earth.
16 There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from
Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of
Egypt.
Is 14:1,2
1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set
them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will
unite with the house of Jacob.
2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel
will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will
take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their
oppressors.
Is 27:6,12,13
6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will
fill the surface of the world with fruit.
12 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream
of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one,
children of Israel.
13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who
were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the
land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at
Jerusalem.
Is 35:10
The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return,
and come with singing to Zion;
and everlasting joy will be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Is 41:8,9
8 “But you, Israel, my servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
the seed of Abraham my friend,
9 You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
and called from its corners,
and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and
not cast you away;’
Is 43:5,6
5 Don’t be afraid; for I am with you.
I will bring your seed from the east,
and gather you from the west.
6 I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’
and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!
Bring my sons from far,
and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
Is 49:11-13,18,22
11 I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far; and behold, these from the north and from
the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, heavens; and be joyful, earth; and break forth into singing, mountains:
for Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together,
and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them
all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride.
22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and
set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom,
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Is 51:11
The ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Is 54:7
For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather
you.
Is 56:8
The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather others
to him, besides his own who are gathered.
Is 60:4,8,9
4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together,
they come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be
carried in the arms.
8 Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
9 Surely the islands shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of
Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
Is 66:20
They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to
Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on
dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of
Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.
Jr 3:14
Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will
take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Jr 16:14-16
14 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said,
As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
15 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of
the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring
them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them
up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from
every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Jr 23:3,7,8
3 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have
driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be
fruitful and multiply.
7 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As
Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
8 but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of
Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven
them. They shall dwell in their own land.
Jr 24:6
For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this
land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and
not pluck them up.
Jr 29:10,14
10 For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I
will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to
this place.
14 I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity,
and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have
driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I
caused you to be carried away captive.
Jr 30:3,10,18
3 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity
of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to
the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
10 Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be
dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the
land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease,
and none shall make him afraid.
18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob’s tents,
and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built on its
own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.
Jr 31:8-12,16,17,21,23
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the
uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the
woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall
they return here.
9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will
cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall
not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off;
and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does
his flock.
11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was
stronger than he.
12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the
goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to
the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered
garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
16 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears;
for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the
land of the enemy.
17 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your children
shall come again to their own border.
21 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the highway, even
the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of Israel, turn again to these
your cities.
23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this
speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I shall bring again their
captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.
Jr 32:37,41,42
37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them
in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them
again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this
land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil on this
people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have promised them.
Jr 33:7,10-13
7 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and
will build them, as at the first.
10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which
you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of
Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and
without inhabitant and without animal,
11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and
the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of
Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; and of
them who bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh.
For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says
Yahweh.
12 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is
waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of
shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the
cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about
Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the
hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh.
14 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that good word which
I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
Jr 43:5
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the
remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the nations where they had been
driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah;
Jr 46:27
27 But don’t be afraid you, Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, Israel:
for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their
captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none
shall make him afraid.
Jr 50:4,5,19
4 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall
come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way
weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.
5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying,
Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall
not be forgotten.
19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and
Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
Ezk 11:17,18
17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples,
and assemble you out of the countries where you
have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
18 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of
it and all its abominations from there.
Ezk 16:53,55
53 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters,
and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your
captives in the midst of them;
55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate;
and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and
your daughters shall return to your former estate.
Ezk 20:34,35,40-42
34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the
countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;
35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I
enter into judgment with you face to face.
40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the
Lord Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the
land: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the
first fruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
41 As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples,
and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will
be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
42 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into the land of
Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.
Ezk 28:25
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from
the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in
the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave
to my servant Jacob.
Ezk 34:11-16
11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my
sheep, and will seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that
are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out
of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries,
and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains
of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
14 I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of
Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat
pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.
15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down,
says the Lord Yahweh.
16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven
away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was
sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
Ezk 36:8-12,24,28
8 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield
your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled
and sown;
10 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and
the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built;
11 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be
fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and
will do better to you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I
am Yahweh.
12 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall
possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more
henceforth bereave them of children.
24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the
countries, and will bring you into your own land.
28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my
people, and I will be your God.
Ezk
37:1-28 Note: This very important chapter on the
Regathering of the Jews is being presented in its entirety.
1 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of
Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in
the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.
3 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you
know.
4 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones,
hear the word of Yahweh.
5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter
into you, and you shall live.
6 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with
skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise,
and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up, and skin
covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the
wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe
on these slain, that they may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they
lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut
off.
12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will
open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I
will bring you into the land of Israel.
13 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and
caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
14 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your
own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,
says Yahweh.
15 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
16 You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the
children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For
Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his
companions:
17 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one
in your hand.
18 When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not
show us what you mean by these?
19 tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his
companions; and I will put them with it, even with the stick of Judah,
and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20 The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of
Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on
every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and
one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations,
neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with
their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save
them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will
cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one
shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do
them.
25 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which
your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and
their children’s children, forever: and David my servant shall be their prince
for ever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an
everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and
will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
27 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be
my people.
28 The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
Ezk 38:8,12
8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into
the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many
peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it
is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste
places that are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered
out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle
of the earth.
Ezk 39:25,27,28
25 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of
Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my
holy name.
27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of
their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.
28 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into
captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I
will leave none of them any more there;
Hs 1:11
The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and
they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great
will be the day of Jezreel.
Hs 8:10
But although they sold themselves among the nations,
I will now gather them;
and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty
ones.
Hs 11:10,11
10 They will walk after Yahweh,
who will roar like a lion;
for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
11 They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,
and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;
and I will settle them in their houses,” says Yahweh.
Am 9:14,15
14 I will bring my people Israel back from captivity,
and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
and eat the fruit of them.
15 I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I
have given them,”
says Yahweh your God.
Mc 2:12
I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you;
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah,
as a flock in the midst of their pasture;
they will swarm with people.
Mc 4:6,7
6 “In that day,” says Yahweh,
“I will assemble that which is lame,
and I will gather that which is driven away,
and that which I have afflicted;
7 and I will make that which was lame a remnant,
and that which was cast far off a strong nation:
and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”
Zp 2:7
The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture.
In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their
God, will visit them, and restore them.
Zp 3:19,20
19 Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will
save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them
praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
20 At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I
will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring
back your captivity before your eyes, says Yahweh.
Zc 8:7,8
7 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “Behold, I will save my people from the east
country, and from the west country;
8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they
will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”
Zc 10:6,8-10
6 “I will strengthen the house of Judah,
and I will save the house of Joseph,
and I will bring them back;
for I have mercy on them;
and they will be as though I had not cast them off:
for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
8 I will signal for them, and gather them;
for I have redeemed them;
and they will increase as they have increased.
9 I will sow them among the peoples;
and they will remember me in far countries;
and they will live with their children, and will return.
10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,
and gather them out of Assyria;
and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon;
and there won’t be room enough for them.