What Does Ezekiel 16:62 Mean in the King James?

And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

Ezekiel 16:62 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The covenant is something the LORD makes stand, and that standing becomes how you know who God is.

THE MEANING

The LORD’s commitment stands now, and through it you come to know God by encounter, not merely by a title. The verse joins covenant with recognition: who God is becomes known through what God establishes.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that you must hold the relationship together yourself: the covenant stands by the LORD’s action, and knowing follows.

THE ROOT

וַהֲקִימוֹתִי

vahaqimoti

GROWS FROM

קום

qum

To rise or stand.

“establish” in this verse is vahaqimoti. The Hebrew verb for establishing comes from the root for standing or rising. The covenant is made to stand: it is a commitment with staying power, not just a declaration.

ALSO GROWS

qum: To rise, stand, or arise.

קוּם

This basic sense shows the standing beneath the verse’s promise to establish the covenant.

heqim: To raise up or establish.

הֵקִים

This causative form carries the root’s sense of making something stand.

וְיָדַעַתְּ

veyadaat

GROWS FROM

ידע

yada

To know, recognize, or perceive through encounter.

“know” in this verse is veyadaat. The same root can speak of knowing and making something known. Here, knowing the LORD is more than identifying a title: it is recognizing God through the covenant that stands.

ALSO GROWS

daat: Knowledge or understanding.

דַּעַת

This noun keeps knowing connected to what is perceived and understood.

hodi'a: To make known or declare.

הוֹדִיעַ

This form shows the root’s movement from knowing to bringing something into recognition.

THE PATTERN

The LORD’s covenantal commitment becomes the ground on which people come to know who God is.

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 17:7 · KJVThe covenant is established as a lasting relationship in which God is known as God to the people.

And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Exodus 6:7 · KJVThe LORD’s action of bringing people out and claiming them as a people leads to knowing who God is.

And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

Hebrews 8:11 · KJVThe covenant’s promise opens into direct knowing of the LORD, extending from the least to the greatest.

THE THREAD

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 31:34 · KJV

Jeremiah uses the same ⁨ידע⁩ (yada, know) root as Ezekiel’s promise. It opens the covenant into a knowing shared by all, and links that knowing with the LORD releasing crookedness and no longer remembering what was missed.

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