1The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord , and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,[ † ]Ezekiel 1:3Ezekiel 3:14Ezekiel 8:3Ezekiel 11:24Acts 8:39 2and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God , thou knowest.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:391 Samuel 2:6John 5:21Romans 4:172 Corinthians 1:9 4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord . 5Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:[ † ]Genesis 2:7Psalms 104:29-30Ezekiel 37:9-10, 14 6and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord .[ † ]Isaiah 49:23Ezekiel 6:7Ezekiel 35:12Joel 2:27Joel 3:17
7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9Then 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.[ † ]Psalms 104:30 10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.[ † ]Revelation 11:11
11Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.[ † ]Jeremiah 33:24Ezekiel 36:10Psalms 141:7Isaiah 49:14 12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:391 Samuel 2:6Isaiah 26:19Isaiah 66:14Daniel 12:2Hosea 13:14Ezekiel 36:24 13And ye shall know that I am the Lord , when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it , and performed it , saith the Lord .[ † ]Isaiah 32:15Ezekiel 36:27Joel 2:28-29Zechariah 12:10
15The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 16Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:[ † ]Numbers 17:2-32 Chronicles 11:12-13, 162 Chronicles 15:92 Chronicles 30:11-18 17and join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.[ † ]Isaiah 11:13Jeremiah 50:4Ezekiel 37:22-24Hosea 1:11Zephaniah 3:9 18And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?[ † ]Ezekiel 12:9Ezekiel 24:19 19Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.[ † ]Zechariah 10:6Ezekiel 37:16-17 20And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.[ † ]Ezekiel 12:3 21And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:[ † ]Isaiah 43:5-6Jeremiah 32:37Ezekiel 36:24Amos 9:14-15 22and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:[ † ]Isaiah 11:13Jeremiah 3:18Hosea 1:11Ezekiel 34:23John 10:16 23neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.[ † ]Ezekiel 36:25Ezekiel 36:28-29
24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.[ † ]Isaiah 40:11Jeremiah 23:5Jeremiah 30:9Ezekiel 34:23-24Hosea 3:5Luke 1:32John 10:16Ezekiel 36:27 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.[ † ]Ezekiel 36:28Isaiah 60:21Joel 3:20Amos 9:15Psalms 89:3-4John 12:34 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.[ † ]Psalms 89:3Isaiah 55:3Jeremiah 32:40Jeremiah 30:19Ezekiel 36:102 Corinthians 6:16 27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.[ † ]Leviticus 26:11John 1:14Revelation 21:3Ezekiel 11:20 28And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.[ † ]Ezekiel 36:23Exodus 31:13Ezekiel 20:12