Ezekiel 37:6
in Ezekiel 37I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
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 Jehovah.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Ezekiel 37
Commentary
4 notes on this verseon Ezekiel 37:4-10
In minute detail the holy prophet Ezekiel teaches and describes how strength will be restored to our dry bones, feeling return and motion added; how, with the return of sinews, the whole structure of the human body will grow strong, and how the driest bones will be clothed with restored flesh and the openings of the veins and the streams of the blood will be concealed by a veil of skin drawn tautly over them.
This site's exposition
Prophesy upon these bones
on Ezekiel 37:4-8
The means of the miracle is the point of it: prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord, preaching commanded to an audience that cannot hear. As the prophet obeys there is a noise and a shaking, bone to his bone, sinews and flesh and skin, and then the verse's deliberate halt: but there was no breath in them. The bench draws the two-stage shape as the text draws it, structure without life first, which guards the vision from meaning mere reorganization, as Fairbairn puts it: a nation can be reassembled and still be a corpse.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Secondly, That which was immediately done for them was that they were moulded anew into shape. We may well suppose it was with great liveliness and vigour that the prophet prophesied, especially when he found what he said begin to take effect. Note, The opening, sealing, and applying of the promises, are the ordinary means of our participation of a new and divine nature.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
on Ezekiel 37:1-10
THIS vision has been used, from the time of Jerome onwards, as a description of the resurrection and certainly it may be so accommodated with much effect. What a vision of the great day the words picture before the mind's eye! The great army of the quick, who once were dead, seem to start up as we read. Here, too, we have a very fit and appropriate question to be asked in a tomb—"Son of man, can these bones live?"
The words behind it
17 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְנָתַתִּי֩ | venatati | and I will give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| עֲלֵיכֶ֨ם | ʾaleikhem | to you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| גִּדִ֜ים | gidim | sinews | H1517 → | |
| וְֽהַעֲלֵתִ֧י | vehaalti | and I will bring up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם | ʾaleikhem | over you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| בָּשָׂ֗ר | basar | flesh | H1320 → | 270 times |
| וְקָרַמְתִּ֤י | vekaramti | and I will cover | H7159 → | |
| עֲלֵיכֶם֙ | ʾaleikhem | over you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| ע֔וֹר | or | skin | H5785 → | |
| וְנָתַתִּ֥י | venatati | and I will put | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בָכֶ֛ם | vakhem | in you | ||
| ר֖וּחַ | ruach | breath | H7307 → | 378 times |
| וִחְיִיתֶ֑ם | vichyitem | and you will live | H2421 → | 282 times |
| וִידַעְתֶּ֖ם | vida'tem | and you will know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֥י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
וְנָתַתִּי֩and I will give
venatatiH5414 →2011 times
עֲלֵיכֶ֨םto you
ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times
גִּדִ֜יםsinews
gidimH1517 →
וְֽהַעֲלֵתִ֧יand I will bring up
vehaaltiH5927 →890 times
עֲלֵיכֶ֣םover you
ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times
בָּשָׂ֗רflesh
basarH1320 →270 times
וְקָרַמְתִּ֤יand I will cover
vekaramtiH7159 →
עֲלֵיכֶם֙over you
ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times
ע֔וֹרskin
orH5785 →
וְנָתַתִּ֥יand I will put
venatatiH5414 →2011 times
בָכֶ֛םin you
vakhem
ר֖וּחַbreath
ruachH7307 →378 times
וִחְיִיתֶ֑םand you will live
vichyitemH2421 →282 times
וִידַעְתֶּ֖םand you will know
vida'temH3045 →945 times
כִּֽי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֥יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָֽה׃[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 49:23Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…
it leads to
- Isaiah 60:14
The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy…
- Isaiah 60:16
You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
- Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of…
- Isaiah 45:14
This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge…
- Isaiah 60:14
Through
Joel 2:27Then you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 37:26–28
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
- Leviticus 26:11–12
And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
- Ezekiel 37:26–28
Through
Ezekiel 37:14I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 36:27
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
- Ezekiel 36:27
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Ambrose of Milan, On the Death of Satyrus 2.69; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 582: “The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.