Chapter 37

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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." Ezek 1:3, Ezek 3:14, Ezek 3:22, Ezek 33:22, Ezek 40:1; Rev 1:10

carried Ezek 8:3, Ezek 11:24; 1Kgs 18:12; 2Kgs 2:16; Luke 4:1; Acts 8:39


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valley or, champaign, Deut 11:30

they were Ezek 37:11; Ps 141:7


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can John 6:5-6

O Lord God Deut 32:29; 1Sam 2:6; John 5:21, John 11:25-26; Acts 26:8; Rom 4:17; 2Cor 1:9-10; Heb 11:19


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Prophesy Ezek 37:11, Ezek 37:15-16; Num 20:8; 1Kgs 13:2; Matt 21:21; John 2:5

O ye Ezek 36:1; Isa 26:19, Isa 42:18; Jer 22:29; Mic 6:2; John 5:25, John 5:28-29


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I will Ezek 37:9-10, Ezek 37:14; Gen 2:7; Ps 104:29-30; John 20:22; Rom 8:2; Eph 2:5


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I will Ezek 37:8-10

ye shall Ezek 37:14, Ezek 6:7, Ezek 6:13, Ezek 7:4, Ezek 7:9, Ezek 11:10, Ezek 11:12, Ezek 20:38, Ezek 28:22-26, Ezek 32:15, Ezek 34:27; Ezek 35:9, Ezek 35:12, Ezek 35:15, Ezek 38:23, Ezek 39:6, Ezek 39:22, Ezek 39:28; Deut 29:6; 1Kgs 20:28; Isa 49:23; Joel 2:27, Joel 3:17


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I prophesied as Jer 13:5-7, Jer 26:8; Acts 4:19, Acts 5:20-29

there 1Kgs 19:11-13; Acts 2:2, Acts 2:37, Acts 16:26-29


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wind or, breath

Come Ezek 37:5, Ezek 37:14; Song 4:16; John 3:8


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the breath Ps 104:30; Rev 11:11, Rev 20:4-5


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whole house Ezek 37:16, Ezek 37:19, Ezek 36:10, Ezek 39:25; Jer 31:1, Jer 33:24-26; Hos 1:11; Rom 11:26; 2Cor 5:14; Eph 2:1

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


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Therefore Job 35:14-15

I will open This is a pointed allusion to the resurrection; under which figure Isaiah (Isa 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 (Isa 66:14), or to be restored to their former strength and vigour; and, in like manner, St. Paul (Rom 11:15), expresses 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 Spirit 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. Ezek 37:21; Isa 26:19, Isa 66:14; Hos 6:2, Hos 13:14; 1Thess 4:16; Rev 20:13

and bring Ezek 37:25, Ezek 28:25, Ezek 36:24; Ezra 1:1-2:70; Amos 9:14-15


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Ezek 37:6, Ezek 16:62; Ps 126:2-3


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shall put Ezek 37:9, Ezek 11:19, Ezek 36:27, Ezek 39:29; Isa 32:15; Joel 2:28-29; Zech 12:10; Acts 2:16-17; Rom 8:2, Rom 8:11; 1Cor 15:45; Titus 3:5-6

I the Lord Ezek 17:24, Ezek 22:14, Ezek 36:36


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take thee Num 17:2-3

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

For Joseph 1Kgs 12:16-20; 2Chr 10:19


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Ezek 37:22-24; Isa 11:13; Jer 50:4; Hos 1:11; Zeph 3:9


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Wilt Ezek 12:9, Ezek 17:12, Ezek 20:49, Ezek 24:19


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Behold Ezek 37:16-17; 1Chr 9:1-3; Zech 10:6; Eph 2:13-14; Col 3:11


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in thine Ezek 12:3; Num 17:6-9; Hos 12:10


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


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I will make Isa 11:12-13; Jer 3:18, Jer 32:39, Jer 50:4; Hos 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 note on Ezek 34:23.) Ezek 37:24, Ezek 34:23-24; Gen 49:10; Ps 2:6, Ps 2:12, Ps 72:1, Ps 72:8; Isa 9:6-7; Jer 23:5-6; Jer 33:14-17, Jer 33:26; Hos 3:4-5; Luke 1:32-33; John 10:16; Rev 11:15


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shall they defile Ezek 20:43, Ezek 36:25, Ezek 36:29, Ezek 36:31, Ezek 43:7-8; Isa 2:18; Hos 14:8; Zech 13:1-2, Zech 14:21

but Ezek 36:24, Ezek 36:29; Lev 20:7-8; Mic 7:14

will cleanse Eph 5:26-27; Heb 9:13-14; 1John 1:7, 1John 1:9

they be Ezek 37:27, Ezek 36:28, Ezek 39:22; Gen 17:7-8; Ps 68:20, Ps 68:35; Jer 31:1, Jer 31:33, Jer 32:38-39; Hos 1:10; Zech 13:9; Rev 21:3-4, Rev 21:7


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David Ezek 37:25; Isa 55:3-4; Jer 23:5, Jer 30:9; Hos 3:5; Luke 1:32

one Ezek 37:22, Ezek 34:23-24; Ps 78:71-72, Ps 80:1; Eccl 12:11; Isa 40:11; Mic 5:2, Mic 5:4; Zech 13:7; John 10:11, John 10:14-16; Eph 4:4-6; Heb 13:20; 1Pet 5:4

they shall Ezek 36:27; Deut 30:6; Jer 31:33, Jer 32:39; 1Cor 11:2; Eph 2:10; Phil 2:12-13; Titus 2:11-13, Titus 3:3-8; 1John 2:6


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

even they Isa 60:21, Isa 66:22; Joel 3:20; Amos 9:15; Zeph 3:14-15; Zech 14:11

and my Ezek 37:24; Isa 9:6-7; Dan 2:44-45; Zech 6:12-13; Luke 1:32-33; John 12:34; Heb 7:2, Heb 7:21


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I will make Ezek 34:25; Gen 17:7; 2Sam 23:5; Ps 89:3-4; Isa 55:3, Isa 59:20-21; Jer 32:40; Hos 2:18-23; John 14:27; Heb 13:20-21

multiply Ezek 36:10, Ezek 36:37; Isa 27:6, Isa 49:21; Jer 30:19, Jer 31:27; Zech 8:4-5; Heb 6:14

set Ezek 11:16, Ezek 43:7, Ezek 45:1-6; Lev 26:11-12; 1Kgs 8:20-21; Ps 68:18; Zech 2:5; 2Cor 6:16


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tabernacle John 1:14; Col 2:9-10; Rev 21:3, Rev 21:22

I will Ezek 37:23, Ezek 11:20, Ezek 14:11, Ezek 36:28; Lev 26:12; Hos 2:23


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the heathen Ezek 36:23, Ezek 36:36, Ezek 38:23, Ezek 39:7, Ezek 39:23; Ps 79:10, Ps 102:15, Ps 126:2; Rom 11:15

sanctify Ezek 20:12; Exod 31:13; Lev 20:8, Lev 21:8; John 17:17-19; 1Cor 1:30; Eph 5:26; 1Thess 5:23


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