1 The hand of the LORD was on me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the middle of the valley which was full of bones, Compare verse12 commentaries
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, see, they were very dry. Compare verse12 commentaries
3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know. Compare verse13 commentaries
4 Again he said to me, Prophesy on these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Compare verse12 commentaries
5 Thus said the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: Compare verse14 commentaries
6 And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD. Compare verse12 commentaries
7 So 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. Compare verse15 commentaries
8 And when I beheld, see, the sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. Compare verse15 commentaries
9 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. Compare verse15 commentaries
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army. Compare verse15 commentaries
11 Then he said to 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. Compare verse12 commentaries
12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus said 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. Compare verse12 commentaries
13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, Compare verse12 commentaries
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, said the LORD. Compare verse15 commentaries
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions: Compare verse1 commentary
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand. Compare verse1 commentary
18 And when the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these? Compare verse1 commentary
19 Say to them, Thus said 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 my hand. Compare verse1 commentary
20 And the sticks where on you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. Compare verse1 commentary
21 And say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: Compare verse2 commentaries
22 And I will make them one nation in the land on 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. Compare verse1 commentary
23 Neither 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 dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. Compare verse1 commentary
24 And 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. Compare verse1 commentary
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelled; 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. Compare verse1 commentary
26 Moreover 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 middle of them for ever more. Compare verse1 commentary
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Compare verse4 commentaries
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the middle of them for ever more. Compare verse1 commentary