1-10 By the resurrection of dry bones 11-14 the dead hope of Israel is revised 15-17 By the uniting of two sticks 18-20 is shewn the incorporation of Israel into Judah 21-28 The promises of Christ's kingdom

hand. In this vision, the dry bones aptly represent the ruined and desperate state of both Israel and Judah; and the revivification of these bones signifies their restoration to their own land after their captivity, and also their recovery from their present long dispersion. Although this is the primary and genuine scope of the vision, yet the doctrine of a general resurrection of the dead may justly be inferred from it; for `a simile of the resurrection,' says Jerome, after Tertullian and others, would never have been used to signify the restoration of the people of Israel, unless such a future resurrection had been believed and known; because no one attempts to confirm uncertain things by things which have no existence.' Eze 1:2 3:14,22 33:22 40:1 Re 1:10

carried Eze 8:3 11:24 1Ki 18:12 2Ki 2:16 Lu 4:1 Ac 8:39

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.

valley. or, champaign De 11:30

they were Eze 37:11 Ps 141:7

3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

can Joh 6:5,6

O Lord God De 32:29 1Sa 2:6 Joh 5:21 11:25,26 Ac 26:8 Ro 4:17 2Co 1:9,10 Heb 11:19

4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Prophesy Eze 37:11,15,16 Nu 20:8 1Ki 13:2 Mt 21:21 Joh 2:5

O ye Eze 36:1 Isa 26:19 42:18 Jer 22:29 Mic 6:2 Joh 5:25,28,29

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

I will Eze 37:9,10,14 Ge 2:7 Ps 104:29,30 Joh 20:22 Ro 8:2 Eph 2:5

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.

I will Eze 37:8-10

ye shall Eze 37:14 6:7,13 7:4,9 11:10,12 20:38 28:22-26 32:15 34:27 35:9,12,15 38:23 39:6,22,28 De 29:6 1Ki 20:28 Isa 49:23 Joe 2:27 3:17

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.

I prophesied as Jer 13:5-7 26:8 Ac 4:19 5:20-29

there 1Ki 19:11-13 Ac 2:2,37 16:26-29

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.

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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.

wind. or breath
Come Eze 37:5,14 So 4:16 Joh 3:8

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.

the breath Ps 104:30 Re 11:11 20:4,5

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.

whole house Eze 37:16,19 36:10 39:25 Jer 31:1 33:24-26 Ho 1:11 Ro 11:26 2Co 5:14 Eph 2:1

Our bones Eze 37:1-8 Nu 17:12,13 Ps 77:7-9 141:7 Isa 40:27 49:14 Jer 2:25

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.

Therefore. Job 35:14,15

I will open. This is a pointed allusion to the resurrection; under which figure Isaiah (ch. 26:9) also describes the restoration of the house of Israel, when he says, `thy dead men shall live;' at which time their bones are said to flourish (ch 66:14) or to be restored to their former strength and vigour; and, in like manner, Paul, (Ro. 11:15,) expressed their conversion by `life from the dead.' In the land of their captivity, they seemed as absolutely deprived of their country as persons committed to the grave are cut off from the land of the living; but when Cyrus issued his proclamation, Jehovah, as it were, opened their graves, and when he stirred up their spirits to embrace the proffered liberty, he put his Sprit within them, that they might live; and their re-establishment in their own land evinced the truth of God in the prediction, and his power in its accomplishment. Eze 37:21 Isa 26:19 66:14 Ho 6:2 13:14 1Th 4:16 Re 20:13

and bring Eze 37:25 28:25 36:24 Ezr 1:1-2:70 Am 9:14,15

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,

Eze 37:6 16:62 Ps 126:2,3

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.

shall put Eze 37:9 11:19 36:27 39:29 Isa 32:15 Joe 2:28,29 Zec 12:10 Ac 2:16,17 Ro 8:2,11 1Co 15:45 Tit 3:5,6

I the Lord Eze 17:24 22:14 36:36

15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

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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:

take thee Nu 17:2,3

For Judah 2Ch 10:17 11:11-17 15:9 30:11-18

For Joseph 1Ki 12:16-20 2Ch 10:19

17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

Eze 37:22-24 Isa 11:13 Jer 50:4 Ho 1:11 Zep 3:9

18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

Wilt Eze 12:9 17:12 20:49 24:19

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.

Behold Eze 37:16,17 1Ch 9:1-3 Zec 10:6 Eph 2:13,14 Col 3:11

20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

in thine Eze 12:3 Nu 17:6-9 Ho 12:10

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:

Eze 34:13 36:24 39:25 De 30:3,4 Isa 11:11 27:12,13 43:6 49:12 Jer 16:15 23:3,8 29:14 30:3,10,18 31:8-10 32:37 33:7,11 50:19 Am 9:14,15 Ob 1:17-21 Mic 7:11,12

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.

I will make Isa 11:12,13 Jer 3:18 32:39 50:4 Ho 1:11 Eph 2:19-22

and one It is evident that the grand union of Israel and Judah here predicted, and their government under one king, and that king to be David, must still be future; for, politically speaking, they never had a king from that day to this, far less a king or prince of that name. (See on ch 34:23) Eze 37:24 34:23,24 Ge 49:10 Ps 2:6,12 72:1,8 Isa 9:6,7 Jer 23:5,6 33:14-17,26 Ho 3:4,5 Lu 1:32,33 Joh 10:16 Re 11:15

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.

shall they defile Eze 20:43 36:25,29,31 43:7,8 Isa 2:13 Ho 14:8 Zec 13:1,2 14:21

but Eze 36:24,29 Le 20:7,8 Mic 7:14

will cleanse Eph 5:26,27 Heb 9:13,14 1Jo 1:7,9

they be Eze 37:27 36:28 39:22 Ge 17:7,8 Ps 68:20,35 Jer 31:1,33 32:38,39 Ho 1:10 Zec 13:9 Re 21:3,4,7

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.

David Eze 37:25 Isa 55:3,4 Jer 23:5 30:9 Ho 3:5 Lu 1:32

one Eze 37:22 34:23,24 Ps 78:71,72 80:1 Ec 12:11 Isa 40:11 Mic 5:2,4 Zec 13:7 Joh 10:11,14-16 Eph 4:4-6 Heb 13:20 1Pe 5:4

they shall Eze 36:27 De 30:6 Jer 31:33 32:39 1Co 11:2 Eph 2:10 Php 2:12,13 Tit 2:11-13 3:3-8 1Jo 2:6

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.

they shall dwell in Eze 37:21 28:25 36:28 37:26 Jer 30:3 31:24 32:41

even they Isa 60:21 66:22 Joe 3:20 Am 9:15 Zep 3:14,15 Zec 14:11

and my Eze 37:24 Isa 9:6,7 Da 2:44,45 Zec 6:12,13 Lu 1:32,33 Joh 12:34 Heb 7:2,21

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.

I will make Eze 34:25 Ge 17:7 2Sa 23:5 Ps 89:3,4 Isa 55:3 59:20,21 Jer 32:40 Ho 2:18-23 Joh 14:27 Heb 13:20,21

multiply Eze 36:10,37 Isa 27:6 49:21 Jer 30:19 31:27 Zec 8:4,5 Heb 6:14

set Eze 11:16 43:7 45:1 Le 26:11,12 1Ki 8:20,21 Ps 68:18 Zec 2:5 2Co 6:16

27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

tabernacle Joh 1:14 Col 2:9,10 Re 21:3,22

I will Eze 37:23 11:20 14:11 36:28 Le 26:12 Ho 2:23

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.

the heathen Eze 36:23,36 38:23 39:7,23 Ps 79:10 102:15 126:2 Ro 11:15

sanctify Eze 20:12 Ex 31:13 Le 20:8 21:8 Joh 17:17-19 1Co 1:30 Eph 5:26 1Th 5:23