The New Name of the Restored Jerusalem Is Yahweh-Shammah The Lord Is There

Ezekiel 48:35 records the new name of the restored Jerusalem as the climactic close of Ezekiel's long final vision: "It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there." The Hebrew Yahweh-shammah closes the 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. The new name typologically foreshadows the New Testament's climactic promise — Revelation 21:3 picks up the same theme: "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people."

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