1 *See ch. 1:3The hand of the Lord was upon me, and *See ch. 3:12he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley;*37:1 Or plain; also verse 2 it was full of bones. 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, *See ch. 2:1"Son of man, *[1 Cor. 15:35] can these bones live?" And *[Deut. 32:39;John 5:21]I answered, "O Lord God, you know." 4 Then he said to me, *[ch. 6:2] "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, *[John 5:28]O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause *[Gen. 2:7]breath*37:5 Or spirit; also verses 6, 8, 9, 10 to enter you, and you shall live. 6 *[ver. 8] And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and *[ver. 8] cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, *See ch. 6:7and you shall know that I am the Lord."

7 So I prophesied *ch. 12:7;24:18as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, *[1 Kgs. 19:11]a rattling,*37:7 Or an earthquake (compare 3:12, 13) and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But *[ver. 5]there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, *[See ver. 4above] "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, *[See ver. 3above] son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from *Dan. 7:2;11:4;Rev. 7:1the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live." 10 So I prophesied *[See ver. 7above] as he commanded me, and *Rev. 11:11the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

11 Then he said to me, *[See ver. 3above] "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and *[ch. 33:10;Isa. 49:14] our hope is lost; *Lam. 3:54we are indeed cut off.’ 12 Therefore *[See ver. 4above] prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, *[Isa. 26:19;Hos. 13:14] I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And *ver. 21, 25;ch. 36:24I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And *See ch. 6:7you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. 14 And *ch. 36:27I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; *See ch. 17:24I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord."

15 The word of the Lord came to me: 16 *See ch. 2:1"Son of man, *[Num. 17:2] take a stick*37:16 Or one piece of wood; also verses 17, 19, 20 and write on it, ‘For *[Zech. 10:6] Judah, and *2 Chr. 11:12,13,16;15:9;30:11,18the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For *[Zech. 10:6] Joseph (the stick of *Gen. 48:13,14,19;[Hos. 5:3,5]Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 And *[ver. 37:22,24] join them one to another into one stick, that *[Isa. 11:13] they may become *[ch. 35:10]one in your hand. 18 And when *See ch. 33:2your people say to you, *See ch. 12:9‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ 19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take *[ver. 16] the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the *[ver. 16] stick of Judah,*37:19 Hebrew And I will place them on it, the stick of Judah and *[ver. 17] make them one stick, *[See ver. 17above]that they may be one in my hand. 20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand *See ch. 12:3before their eyes, 21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, *ver. 25;ch. 36:24;See ch. 11:17I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and *ver. 25;ch. 36:24;See ch. 11:17bring them to their own land. 22 And *[ver. 17;Jer. 50:4] I will make them one nation in the land, on *See ch. 6:2the mountains of Israel. And *[ver. 24, 25;ch. 34:24] one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer *[ch. 35:10]two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 *[ch. 36:25] They shall not *ch. 14:11defile themselves anymore *ch. 36:25with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But *ch. 36:29I will save them from all the backslidings*37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and *ch. 34:24,30;2 Cor. 6:16;Rev. 21:3;See Ex. 29:45;Lev. 26:12they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24 "My servant *See ch. 34:23David *See Jer. 23:5shall be king over them, and they shall all have *[ver. 22] one shepherd. *ch. 36:27They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 *ch. 28:25They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there *Isa. 60:21;Joel 3:20;Amos 9:15forever, and David my servant shall be their prince *[John 12:34]forever. 26 *ch. 34:25I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be *See Isa. 55:3an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land*37:26 Hebrew lacks in their land and *See ch. 36:10multiply them, and will *ver. 28;ch. 43:7;See ch. 11:16set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 *Lev. 26:11;Rev. 21:3My dwelling place shall be with them, *[See ver. 23above]and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Then *See ch. 36:23the nations will know that *See ch. 20:12I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when *[See ver. 26above]my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."