Ezekiel 36:16--37:14
defiled <02930> [they defiled.]
uncleanness <02932> [as the.]
poured ........... shed <08210> [I poured.]
blood <01818> [for the.]
scattered <06327> [I scattered.]
behavior <01870> [according to their way.]
profaned <02490> [they profaned.]
The Jews, when thus scattered, appeared to them an abject and wretched company of people. They were recognized as the worshippers of Jehovah wherever they went; but they were looked upon as a viler and more worthless race than any of the idolaters among whom they were driven. Many would ascribe their wickedness to the tendency of their religion, which they abhorred, and not to their having acted inconsistently with it; and regard their miseries, not as the punishment of their sins, but as proofs of God's inability to protect them. This profanation of his holy name, Jehovah was determined to wipe away, by shewing mercy unto them.
people <05971> [These.]
magnify ................................. magnify <06942> [sanctify.]
nations ......... nations <01471> [and the heathen.]
magnify ................................. magnify <06942> [when I shall.]
sight <05869> [their. or, your.]
sprinkle .......... clean ........ purify <02236 02891> [will I.]
impurities <02932> [filthiness.]
idols <01544> [from all your idols.]
new heart ....... new ......... heart ........... heart <03820 02319> [new heart.]
stone <068> [the stony.]
put <05414> [I will.]
initiative .......... observe <06213> [cause.]
live <03427> [dwell.]
[be people.]
save <03467> [save.]
call <07121> [call.]
disgrace <02781> [reproach.]
remember <02142> [shall ye.]
loathe <06962> [shall lothe.]
act ............ behavior <06213 01870> [for your.]
ashamed <0954> [be ashamed.]
populate <03427> [cause.]
ruins <02723> [wastes.]
say <0559> [they shall.]
garden <01588> [like the.]
know <03045> [know.]
Lord ............. Lord ... spoken <03068 01696> [I the Lord have.]
ask <01875> [I will yet.]
multiply <07235> [I will increase.]
sheep ... offerings .... sheep ................ flocks <06629 06944> [holy flock. Heb. flock of holy things. as the flock.]
ruined <02720> [the waste.]
hand <03027> [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."
out <03318> [carried.]
valley <01237> [valley. or, champaign.]
great .......... very <03966> [they were.]
bones <06106> [can.]
Sovereign Lord <0136 03069> [O Lord God.]
Prophesy <05012> [Prophesy.]
Dry <03002> [O ye.]
breath <07307> [I will.]
put ................. put <05414> [I will.]
live ..... know <02421 03045> [ye shall.]
prophesied ..... commanded ........ prophesied <05012 06680> [I prophesied as.]
sound <06963> [there.]
breath .......... breath ............. winds ... breath <07307> [wind. or, breath. Come.]
breath <07307> [the breath.]
house <01004> [whole house.]
bones ............. bones <06106> [Our bones.]
prophesy <05012> [Therefore.]
open <06605> [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, St. Paul, (Ro 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.
bring <0935> [and bring.]
place <05414> [shall put.]
Lord ........... Lord <03068> [I the Lord.]
