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Yehezkiel 37:1

Lalu kekuasaan TUHAN meliputi aku dan Ia membawa aku ke luar dengan perantaraan Roh-Nya dan menempatkan aku di tengah-tengah lembah, dan lembah ini penuh dengan tulang-tulang.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bones;   Depravity of Man;   Ezekiel;   Prophets;   Regeneration;   Resurrection;   Vision;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mysteries-Revelations;   Revelation;   Valleys;   Visions;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;   Resurrection, the;   Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Vision;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jonah;   Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Oracles;   Resurrection;   Word;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dura, Plain of;   Ethics;   Ezekiel;   Hand;   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 - Valley;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plains;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Valley;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Resurrection;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu kekuasaan TUHAN meliputi aku dan Ia membawa aku ke luar dengan perantaraan Roh-Nya dan menempatkan aku di tengah-tengah lembah, dan lembah ini penuh dengan tulang-tulang.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebermula, maka berlakulah tangan Tuhan atasku, dihantar-Nya akan daku keluar oleh Roh Tuhan, lalu didudukkan-Nya aku di tengah-tengah lembah; heran, maka adalah ia itu penuh dengan tulang orang mati.

Contextual Overview

1 The hande of the Lorde was vpon me, and caried me out in the spirite of the Lorde, and set me downe in the midst of a plaine fielde that was full of bones. 2 And he led me rounde about by them, and beholde, there were very many in the open fielde, and lo [they were] very drye. 3 Then saide he vnto me: Thou sonne of man, thinkest thou these bones may liue againe? I aunswered, O Lorde God, thou knowest. 4 And he saide vnto me, Prophecie thou vpon these bones, & speake vnto them: Ye drye bones, heare the worde of the Lorde, 5 Thus saith the Lorde God vnto these bones: Beholde, I wyll cause breath to enter into you, that ye may lyue. 6 I wyll geue you sinowes, and make fleshe growe vpon you, and couer you ouer with skinne, & so geue you breath, that ye may liue, and knowe that I am the Lorde. 7 So I prophecied as I was comaunded: and as I was propheciyng, there was a noyse, and lo a great motion, so that the bones came neare together, bone to his bone. 8 Now when I had loked, behold they had sinowes, & flesh grewe vpon them, and aboue they were couered with skin: but there was no breath in them. 9 Then saide he vnto me: Thou sonne of man, prophecie thou towarde the winde, prophecie & speake to the winde, thus saith the Lorde God: Come, O thou ayre from the foure windes, and blowe vpon these slaine, that they may lyue. 10 So I prophecied as he had commaunded me: then came the breath into them, and they receaued lyfe, and stoode vp vpon their feete, a marueilous great armie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hand: In this vision, the dry bones aptly represent the ruined and desperate state of both Israel and Judah; and the revivification of these bones signifies their restoration to their own land after their captivity, and also their recovery from their present long dispersion. Although this is the primary and genuine scope of the vision, yet the doctrine of a general resurrection of the dead may justly be inferred from it; for "a simile of the resurrection," says Jerome, after Tertullian and others, "would never have been used to signify the restoration of the people of Israel, unless such a future resurrection had been believed and known; because no one attempts to confirm uncertain things by things which have no existence." Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 3:14, Ezekiel 3:22, Ezekiel 33:22, Ezekiel 40:1, Revelation 1:10

carried: Ezekiel 8:3, Ezekiel 11:24, 1 Kings 18:12, 2 Kings 2:16, Luke 4:1, Acts 8:39

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 13:21 - touched Job 14:14 - shall he live Psalms 53:5 - scattered Psalms 88:10 - shall Isaiah 11:11 - set his hand Isaiah 26:19 - dead men Isaiah 66:14 - your bones Jeremiah 8:1 - General Ezekiel 8:1 - that the Ezekiel 11:1 - the spirit Ezekiel 37:11 - Our bones Ezekiel 43:5 - the spirit Daniel 12:2 - many Mark 12:24 - because John 5:28 - for John 11:24 - I know Romans 11:15 - but 2 Corinthians 1:9 - in God Colossians 2:13 - dead Hebrews 6:2 - resurrection

Cross-References

Genesis 17:8
And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger [euen] al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
Genesis 23:4
I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.
Genesis 28:4
And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.
Genesis 36:7
For theyr ryches was much, and they coulde not dwell together: and the land wherein they were straungers coulde not receaue them, because of theyr possessions.
Genesis 37:9
And he dreamed yet another dreame, and tolde it his brethren, saying: behold I haue had one dreame more, and beholde, the sunne, and the moone, & xj. starres made obeysaunce to me.
Genesis 37:16
He aunswered: I seke my brethren, tell me I praye thee where they kepe [cattell]

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The hand of the Lord was upon me,.... The Spirit of the Lord, a powerful impulse of his upon the prophet; the Targum interprets it a spirit of prophecy; :-:

and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord: out of the place where he was to another; not really, but visionally, as things appeared to him, and as they were represented to his mind by the Spirit of God:

and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones: of men, as the Targum adds: this valley, Kimchi thinks, was the same by the river Chebar, where the prophet had his visions at first. R. Jochanan says it was the valley of Dura, and these the bones of them that were slain by Nebuchadnezzar there, Daniel 3:1. Rab says these were the children of Ephraim, slain by the men of Gath, 1 Chronicles 7:20. Some of the Jewish Rabbins think there was a real resurrection at this time. R. Eliezer says, the dead Ezekiel quickened stood upon their feet, sung a song, and died. R. Eliezer, the son of R. Jose the Galilean, says, they went up into the land of Israel, married wives, and begat sons and daughters. R. Judah ben Bethira stood upon his feet, and said, I am of their children's children, and these are the "tephillim" my father's father left me r; but these are all fabulous and romantic: others of them understand the whole in a parabolical way: these bones, and the quickening of them, were an emblem of the restoration of the Jews from their captivity, who were in a helpless and hopeless condition, as appears from Ezekiel 37:11, and of the conversion of that people in the latter day, which will be as life from the dead; and of the revival of the interest and church of Christ, when the slain witnesses shall rise, and ascend to heaven; and of the resurrection of the dead at the last day; and may be applied unto and be used to illustrate the quickening of dead sinners, by the efficacious grace of the Spirit of God.

r T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 92. 2. Vid. Kimchi & Abendana in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The valley - The same word as “the plain” Ezekiel 3:22; Ezekiel 8:4. The “dry bones” represented the Israelites dispersed abroad, destitute of life national and spiritual.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXVII

This chapter treats of the same subject with the preceding, in

a beautiful and significant vision. Under the emblem of the

open valley being thickly strewed with very dry bones is

represented the hopeless state of the Jews when dispersed

throughout the provinces of the Chaldean empire. But God,

contrary to every human probability, restores these bones to

life, thereby prefiguring the restoration of that people from

the Babylonish captivity, and their resettlement in the land of

their forefathers, 1-14.

The prophet then makes an easy and elegant transition to the

blessedness of the people of God under the Gospel dispensation,

in the plenitude of its manifestation, when the genuine

converts to Christianity, the spiritual Israel, shall be no

longer under the domination of heathen and anti-christian

rulers, but shall be collected together into one visible

kingdom, and constitute but one flock under one Shepherd, 15-28.

The vision of the dry bones reviving is considered by some as

having a remote view to the general resurrection.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXVII

Verse Ezekiel 37:1. The hand of the Lord was upon me — The prophetic influence was communicated.

And carried me out in the spirit — Or, And the Lord brought me out in the spirit; that is, a spiritual vision, in which all these things were doubtless transacted.

The valley which was full of bones — This vision of the dry bones was designed, first, as an emblem of the then wretched state of the Jews; secondly, of the general resurrection of the body.


 
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