The Valley of Dry Bones
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. Ezk 3:22Act 8:39Ezk 1:3Ezk 33:22Jer 7:32Ezk 8:31Ki 18:12Ezk 3:14 He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry. Psa 141:7Ezk 37:11Deu 11:30
Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” Jhn 11:25-26Jhn 5:21Deu 32:39Rom 4:172Co 1:9-10Heb 11:191Sa 2:6Act 26:8
“O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”
And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! Jhn 5:25Jhn 5:28-29Mat 21:21Ezk 36:1Jer 22:29Isa 26:19Ezk 37:11Jhn 2:5 This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath 1to enter you, and you will come to life. Ezk 37:14Gen 2:7Psa 104:29-30Ezk 37:9-10Jhn 20:22Eph 2:5Rom 8:2 I 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.’” Jol 2:27Isa 49:23Jol 3:17Ezk 37:141Ki 20:28Ezk 34:27Ezk 35:12Ezk 35:9
So I prophesied as I had been commanded. And as I prophesied, there was suddenly a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone. Act 2:21Ki 19:11-13Act 4:19Act 16:26-29Act 2:37Act 5:20-29Jer 13:5-7Jer 26:8 As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
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!” Jhn 3:8Sng 4:16Ezk 37:14Ezk 37:5Psa 104:30
So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army. Rev 11:11Psa 104:30Rev 20:4-5
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’ Eph 2:1Psa 77:7-9Ezk 39:25Ezk 36:10Jer 31:1Ezk 37:1-8Isa 49:14Hos 1:11
Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Isa 26:19Hos 13:141Th 4:16Amo 9:14-15Isa 66:14Rev 20:13Ezk 36:24Ezk 37:25 Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. Ezk 37:6Ezk 16:62Psa 126:2-3 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 it, declares the LORD.’” Ezk 36:27Jol 2:28-29Ezk 11:19Ezk 36:36Ezk 39:291Co 15:45Ezk 17:24Ezk 37:9
One Nation with One King
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “And you, son of man, take a single stick 2and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 2Ch 10:192Ch 15:92Ch 10:17Num 17:2-31Ki 12:16-202Ch 11:11-172Ch 30:11-18 Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand. Hos 1:11Jer 50:4Isa 11:13Ezk 37:22-24Zep 3:9
When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’ Ezk 24:19Ezk 12:9Ezk 17:12Ezk 20:49 you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’ Zec 10:6Col 3:11Eph 2:13-14Ezk 37:16-171Ch 9:1-3
When the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people, Ezk 12:3Hos 12:10Num 17:6-9 you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land. Ezk 36:24Jer 23:8Amo 9:14-15Jer 16:15Jer 29:14Jer 32:37Ezk 34:13Isa 11:11-16 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never again be divided into two kingdoms. Ezk 37:24Ezk 34:23-24Jer 3:18Jer 50:4Gen 49:10Hos 1:11Hos 3:4-5Isa 11:12-13
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, 3 and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God. Rev 21:3-41Jn 1:9Ezk 36:28-291Jn 1:7Eph 5:26-27Rev 21:7Zec 13:1-2Hos 14:8 My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes. Ezk 34:23-24Hos 3:5Ezk 37:25Jer 30:9Ezk 36:27Jer 23:5Jer 31:33Luk 1:32
They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever. Amo 9:15Ezk 37:24Ezk 28:25Ezk 36:28Dan 2:44-45Ezk 37:21Ezk 37:26Heb 7:21 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. Isa 55:3Ezk 34:25Heb 13:20-21Jer 30:192Co 6:16Ezk 43:7Lev 26:11-12Ezk 16:62 My dwelling place 4will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people. 5 Rev 21:3Ezk 37:232Co 6:16Col 2:9-10Jhn 1:14Lev 26:11-12Ezk 11:20Ezk 36:28 Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’” Jhn 17:17-19Ezk 20:12Exo 31:131Co 1:301Th 5:23Eph 5:26Ezk 36:23Lev 21:8