Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
out of heaven--so ANDREAS. But A and Vulgate read, "out of the throne."
the tabernacle--alluding to the tabernacle of God in the wilderness (wherein many signs of His presence were given): of which this is the antitype, having previously been in heaven: Revelation 11:19; Revelation 15:5, "the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven"; also Revelation 13:6. Compare the contrast in Hebrews 9:23, Hebrews 9:14, between "the patterns" and "the heavenly things themselves," between "the figures" and "the true." The earnest of the true and heavenly tabernacle was afforded in the Jerusalem temple described in Eze. 40:1-42:20, as about to be, namely, during the millennium.
dwell with them--literally, "tabernacle with them"; the same Greek word as is used of the divine Son "tabernacling among us." Then He was in the weakness of the flesh: but at the new creation of heaven and earth He shall tabernacle among us in the glory of His manifested Godhead (Revelation 22:4).
they--in Greek emphatic, "they" (in particular).
his people--Greek, "His peoples": "the nations of the saved" being all peculiarly His, as Israel was designed to be. So A reads. But B, Vulgate, Syriac, and Coptic read, "His people": singular.
God himself . . . with them--realizing fully His name Immanuel.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Song of Solomon 2:16
Song of Solomon 7:5
Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 12:2
Isaiah 66:1
Jeremiah 31:1
Ezekiel 37:27
Ezekiel 43:9
Ezekiel 48:35
Daniel 2:35
Joel 2:27
Amos 9:11
Zechariah 14:16
John 1:14
2 Corinthians 6:18
Hebrews 8:10
Hebrews 9:8
Revelation 2:7
Revelation 3:12
Revelation 4:8
Revelation 7:15
Revelation 19:7
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