Ezekiel 37
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Ezekiel 37:11-24

11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the 1whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our 2bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are 3completely 4cut off.’ 12Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will open your graves and 5cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people. 14I will 6put My 7Spirit within you and you will come to life, and I will place you on your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken and done it,” declares the Lord.’”

15The word of the Lord came again to me saying, 16“And you, son of man, take for yourself 8one stick and write on it, ‘For 9Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For 10Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’ 17Then 11join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand. 18When the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us 12what you mean by these?’ 19say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’ 20The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. 21Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will 13take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; 22and I will make them 14one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and 15one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. 23They will 16no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but 17I will deliver them from all their 18dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

24“My servant 19David will be king over them, and they will all have 20one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances and keep My statutes and observe them.

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Notes

  1. 1. Ezekiel 37:11 Jer 33:24; Ezek 36:10; 39:25 ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 37:11 Ps 141:7 ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 37:11 Lit cut off to ourselves ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 37:11 Ps 88:5; Lam 3:54 ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 37:12 Deut 32:39; 1 Sam 2:6; Is 26:19; 66:14; Hos 13:14 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 37:14 Is 32:15; Ezek 11:19; 36:27; 37:6, 9; 39:29; Joel 2:28, 29; Zech 12:10 ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 37:14 Or breath ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 37:16 Num 17:2, 3 ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 37:16 2 Chr 10:17; 11:11-17; 15:9 ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 37:16 1 Kin 12:16-20; 2 Chr 10:19 ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 37:17 Is 11:13; Jer 50:4; Ezek 37:22-24; Hos 1:11; Zeph 3:9 ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 37:18 Ezek 12:9; 17:12; 20:49; 24:19 ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 37:21 Is 43:5, 6; Jer 29:14; Ezek 36:24; 39:27; Amos 9:14, 15 ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 37:22 Jer 3:18; 50:4, 5; Ezek 36:10 ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 37:22 Ezek 34:23, 24; 37:24 ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 37:23 Ezek 36:25 ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 37:23 Ezek 36:28, 29 ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 37:23 Another reading is backslidings ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 37:24 Jer 30:9; Ezek 34:24; 37:25; Hos 3:5 ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 37:24 Ps 78:71; Is 40:11; Ezek 34:23 ↩

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