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1 The hand of the LORD was upon me,
and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the
midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were
very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I
answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto
them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause
breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you,
and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was
a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to
his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them,
and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of
man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the
four winds, O breath, and breathe upon 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 upon their feet, an exceeding
great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is
lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come
up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your
graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall
place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have
spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon
it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then
take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of
Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall
become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee,
saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the
stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of
Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick
of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine
hand.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before
their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be 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 upon 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 dwellingplaces,
wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my
people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe
my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my
servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell
therein, even they, and their children, and their children's
children for ever: and my servant David 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 for
evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel,
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2.
Matthew Henry Bible Commentary -
http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/ezekiel/mh/ezekielintro.htm
3. John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
- http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/ezekiel/gill/ezekiel37.htm
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About Ezekiel 37 |
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Concerning the penman of the Book of Ezekiel—it was
Ezekiel; his name signifies, The strength of God,
or one girt or strengthened of God. He
girded up the loins of his mind to the service, and God
put strength into him. Ezekiel's name was answered when
God said, I have made thy face strong against their
faces.2
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Structure of Ezekiel 37 |
This chapter contains a prophecy of the Jews'
return from captivity to their own land; of the union of the
each tribes with one another; and of the glorious kingdom of
Christ among them. Their restoration is represented by a
vision of dry bones made alive; the place in which they
were; the condition they were in; and the manner in which
they were made to live, are described, Ezekiel 37:1,
the explication and application of this
vision to the Jews,
Ezekiel 37:11,
their union is signified by a sign or
emblem of two sticks, which became one in the hand of the
prophet,
Ezekiel 37:15,
the meaning of this is shown,
Ezekiel 37:18,
then follow promises of their return to
their own land, in express words; of their being one
kingdom, under one King, Christ, the antitype of David, of
their sanctification; of their covenant interest in God,
made manifest to them; and of his presence, and dwelling
among them,
Ezekiel 37:213
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Synopsis of Ezekiel 37 |
The threatenings of the destruction of Judah
and Jerusalem for their sins, which we had in the former
part of this book, were not so terrible, but the promises of
their restoration and deliverance for the glory of God,
which we have here in the latter part of the book, are as
comfortable; and as those were illustrated with many visions
and similitudes, for the awakening of a holy fear, so are
these, for the encouraging of a humble faith. God had
assured them, in the foregoing chapter, that he would gather
the house of Israel, even all of it, and would bring them
out of their captivity, and return them to their own land;
but there were two things that rendered this very unlikely:—
I. That they were so dispersed among their enemies, so
destitute of all helps and advantages which might favour or
further their return, and so dispirited likewise in their
own minds; upon all these accounts they are here, in vision,
compared to a valley full of the dry bones of dead men,
which should be brought together and raised to life. The
vision of this we have (v. 1-10) and the explication of it,
with its application to the present case (v. 11-14).
II.
That they were so divided among themselves, too much of the
old enmity between Judah and Ephriam remaining even in their
captivity. But, as to this, by a sign of two sticks made one
in the hand of the prophet is foreshown the happy coalition
that should be, at their return, between the two nations of
Israel and Judah (v. 15-22). In this there was a type of the
uniting of Jews and Gentiles, Jews and Samaritans, in Christ
and his church. And so the prophet slides into a prediction
of the kingdom of Christ, which should be set up in the
world with God's tabernacle in it, and of the glories and
graces of that kingdom (v. 23-28).2
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