Ezekiel 37:9 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 37:9

Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”

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ASV

Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On the Death of Satyrus 2.69 (397)

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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But we call in vain, still they are dead, still they are very dry; we must therefore be earnest with God in prayer for the working of the Spirit with the word: Come, O breath! and breathe upon them. God's grace can save souls without our preaching, but our preaching cannot save them without God's grace, and that grace must be sought by prayer.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The wind - Rather, as in the margin and as in Eze 37:5. The bones are the bones of the “slain,” because the scene was one which was likely to occur in the time of the Chaldaean invasion, and the fact of violent death reminded the prophet of the miserable condition of the people.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 582: “The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1864)

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?"

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֵלַ֔י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
הִנָּבֵ֖א	hi.na.Ve'	prophesy	H5012 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הָר֑וּחַ	ha.Ru.ach	the breath	H7307 →
הִנָּבֵ֣א	hi.na.Ve'	prophesy	H5012 →
בֶן־	ven-	O son of	H1121 →
אָ֠דָם	'A.dom	humankind	H120 →
וְאָמַרְתָּ֨	ve.'a.mar.Ta	and you will say	H559 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הָר֜וּחַ	ha.Ru.ach	the breath	H7307 →
כֹּֽה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר׀	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
יְהוִ֗ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3069 →
מֵאַרְבַּ֤ע	me.'ar.Ba'	from four	H702 →
רוּחוֹת֙	ru.chOt	winds	H7307 →
בֹּ֣אִי	Bo.'i	come	H935 →
הָר֔וּחַ	ha.Ru.ach	O breath	H7307 →
וּפְחִ֛י	u.fe.Chi	and blow	H5301 →
בַּהֲרוּגִ֥ים	ba.ha.ru.Gim	on the killed ones	H2026 →
הָאֵ֖לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
וְיִֽחְיֽוּ׃	ve.Yich.Yu	so they may live	H2421 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 3:8
The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 11:4–5
  He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
- 1 Corinthians 2:11
  For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
- Acts 2:2
  Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
- 1 John 2:29
  If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
- Mark 4:26–29
  Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground.
Through
Psalms 104:30
When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.
leads to
- Job 33:4
  The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Through
Ezekiel 37:14
I 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…
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.
- Joel 2:28–29
  And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel