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Ezekiel 37:5

This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bones;   Ezekiel;   Regeneration;   Resurrection;   Vision;   Thompson Chain Reference - Breath;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Resurrection, the;   Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Vision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Word;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hananiah;   Jonah;   Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;   Ezekiel;   Oracles;   Wind;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dura, Plain of;   Ethics;   Ezekiel;   Kidron (1);   Resurrection;   Servant of the Lord;   Symbol;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Odes of Solomon;   Resurrection of the Dead;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Israel ;   Resurrection;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Adoption;   Valley;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breath;   Daniel, Book of;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Ezekiel;   Isaiah;   Regeneration;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Daniel;   Hafṭarah;   Tanna Debe Eliyahu;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
English Standard Version
Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
New American Standard Bible
"This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: 'Behold, I am going to make breath enter you so that you may come to life.
New Century Version
This is what the Lord God says to the bones: I will cause breath to enter you so you will come to life.
Amplified Bible
"Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will make breath enter you so that you may come to life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus saith the Lord God vnto these bones, Behold, I wil cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall liue.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones, 'Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus says Lord Yahweh to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
Contemporary English Version
"I, the Lord God, will put breath in you, and once again you will live.
Complete Jewish Bible
To these bones Adonai Elohim says, "I will make breath enter you, and you will live.
Darby Translation
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is what the Lord God says to you: I will cause breath to come into you, and you will come to life!
George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live;
Good News Translation
Tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord , am saying to them: I am going to put breath into you and bring you back to life.
Lexham English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: "Look! I am bringing into you breath, and you will live!
Literal Translation
So says the Lord Jehovah to these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth the LORDE God vnto these bones: Beholde, I will put breth in to you, that ye maye lyue:
American Standard Version
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord has said to these bones: See, I will make breath come into you so that you may come to life;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord God vnto these bones, Behold, I wil cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall liue.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lorde God vnto these bones: Beholde, I wyll cause breath to enter into you, that ye may lyue.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life:
English Revised Version
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
World English Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God seith these thingis to these boonys, Lo! Y schal sende in to you a spirit, and ye schulen lyue.
Update Bible Version
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Look, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
New English Translation
This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.
New King James Version
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
New Living Translation
This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!
New Life Bible
This is what the Lord God says to these bones: ‘I will make breath come into you, and you will come to life.
New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, Unto these bones, - Lo! I am about to bring into you - spirit, and ye shall live;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live.
Revised Standard Version
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said the Lord Jehovah to these bones: Lo, I am bringing into you a spirit, and ye have lived,
THE MESSAGE
God , the Master, told the dry bones, "Watch this: I'm bringing the breath of life to you and you'll come to life. I'll attach sinews to you, put meat on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathe life into you. You'll come alive and you'll realize that I am God !"

Contextual Overview

1The 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; it was full of bones. 2He 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. 3Then He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" "O Lord GOD," I replied, "only You know." 4And He said to me, "Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them: 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! 5This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.6I 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.'" 7So I prophesied as I had been commanded. And as I prophesied, there was suddenly a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell it 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!'" 10So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet-a vast army.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Ezekiel 37:9, Ezekiel 37:10, Ezekiel 37:14, Genesis 2:7, Psalms 104:29, Psalms 104:30, John 20:22, Romans 8:2, Ephesians 2:5

Reciprocal: Revelation 11:11 - the Spirit

Cross-References

Genesis 28:12
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God's angels were going up and down the ladder.
Genesis 37:4
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:8
"Do you intend to reign over us?" his brothers asked. "Will you actually rule us?" So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.
Genesis 37:13
Israel said to him, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them." "I am ready," Joseph replied.
Genesis 37:14
Then Israel told him, "Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me." So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
Genesis 40:5
both of these men-the Egyptian king's cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison-had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
Genesis 41:1
After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
Genesis 42:9
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, "You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable."
Genesis 49:23
The archers attacked him with bitterness, and aimed in hostility.
Numbers 12:6
He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision, I will speak to him in a dream;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones,.... By the prophet, who was sent to prophesy over them:

behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live; and none could do this but the living God, who breathed the breath of life into Adam at first, and he became a living soul; to which there seems to be an allusion here; and when the Lord puts his Spirit into men, or bestows his grace on them, then they shall live, and not till then.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 37:5. Behold, I will cause breath — רוח ruach signifies both soul, breath, and wind; and sometimes the Spirit of God. Soul is its proper meaning in this vision, where it refers to the bones: "I will cause the SOUL to enter into you."


 
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