Ezekiel 37:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then 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.

Whole house

Our bones

Jeremiah 2:25

General references

Bible References

Whole house

“Son of man, take a single stick and write on it: Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him. Then take another stick and write on it: Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and all the house of Israel associated with him.

I will fill you with people, with the whole house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

“So this is what the Lord God says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.

“At that time”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

“Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families He had chosen.’ My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.

And the Judeans and the Israelites
will be gathered together.
They will appoint for themselves a single ruler
and go up from the land.
For the day of Jezreel will be great.

>

And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

The Liberator will come from Zion;
He will turn away godlessness from Jacob.

For Christ’s love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: If One died for all, then all died.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

Our bones

The hand of the Lord was on me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we’re perishing! We’re lost; we’re all lost!

“Will the Lord reject forever
and never again show favor?

As when one plows and breaks up the soil,
turning up rocks,
so our bones have been scattered
at the mouth of Sheol.

Jacob, why do you say,
and Israel, why do you assert:
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?

Zion says, “The Lord has abandoned me;
The Lord has forgotten me!”

Keep your feet from going bare
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;
I love strangers,
and I will continue to follow them.”

General references

For this is what the Lord says:

Your injury is incurable;
your wound most severe.

There is hope for your future—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
and your children will return to their own territory.

Fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It’s a desolation without man or beast; it has been handed over to the Chaldeans!’

Then I thought: My future is lost,
as well as my hope from the Lord.