So I prophesied as I had been commanded. While I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man.

Can you put a cord through his nose
or pierce his jaw with a hook?

A ruler can be persuaded through patience,
and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.

When they pass through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker next to it until the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.

“At that time”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of her officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the residents of Jerusalem will be brought out of their graves.

So he said, “Let him rest. Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat
and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who carouse in her!

His breath is like an overflowing torrent
that rises to the neck.
He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction
and to put a bridle on the jaws of the peoples
to lead them astray.

This is the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether it is an ox, a sheep, or a goat; the priests are to be given the shoulder, jaws, and stomach.

I will put hooks in your jaws
and make the fish of your streams
cling to your scales.
I will haul you up
from the middle of your Nile,
and all the fish of your streams
will cling to your scales.

Indeed, He lured you from the jaws of distress
to a spacious and unconfined place.
Your table was spread with choice food.

I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, including horses and riders, who are all splendidly dressed, a huge company armed with shields and bucklers, all of them brandishing swords.

Who can open his jaws,
surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

I led them with human cords,
with ropes of love.
To them I was like one
who eases the yoke from their jaws;
I bent down to give them food.

He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

David had the bones brought from there. They gathered up the bones of Saul’s family who had been hung

After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the Israelites swear a solemn oath, saying, “God will certainly come to your aid; then you must take my bones with you from this place.”

For my days vanish like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.

Because of the sound of my groaning,
my flesh sticks to my bones.

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.

He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.

My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.

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

This will be healing for your body
and strengthening for your bones.

A capable wife is her husband’s crown,
but a wife who causes shame
is like rottenness in his bones.

A tranquil heart is life to the body,
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.

Bright eyes cheer the heart;
good news strengthens the bones.

A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in the womb of a pregnant woman,
so you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.

He burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

God brought him out of Egypt;
He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
He will feed on enemy nations
and gnaw their bones;
he will strike them with his arrows.

I thought until the morning:
He will break all my bones like a lion;
You make an end of me day and night.

The Lord will always lead you,
satisfy you in a parched land,
and strengthen your bones.
You will be like a watered garden
and like a spring whose waters never run dry.

They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and the whole heavenly host, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the surface of the soil.

If I say, “I won’t mention Him
or speak any longer in His name,”
His message becomes a fire burning in my heart,
shut up in my bones.
I become tired of holding it in,
and I cannot prevail.

Concerning the prophets:

My heart is broken within me,
and all my bones tremble.
I have become like a drunkard,
like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord,
because of His holy words.

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

fear and trembling came over me
and made all my bones shake.

Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the parcel of land Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 qesitahs. It was an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and wove me together with bones and tendons.

Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions.
The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria;
the last one who crushed his bones
was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

מ MemHe sent fire from heaven into my bones;
He made it descend.
He spread a net for my feet
and turned me back.
He made me desolate,
sick all day long.

ב BetHe has worn away my flesh and skin;
He has shattered my bones.

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

His bones may be full of youthful vigor,
but will lie down with him in the grave.

His body is well fed,
and his bones are full of marrow.

ח KhetNow they appear darker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become dry like wood.

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Night pierces my bones,
but my gnawing pains never rest.

My skin blackens and flakes off,
and my bones burn with fever.

Place the pieces of meat in it,
every good piece—
thigh and shoulder.
Fill it with choice bones.

Take the choicest of the flock
and also pile up the fuel under it.
Bring it to a boil
and cook the bones in it.”

Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!
Cook the meat well
and mix in the spices!
Let the bones be burned!

A person may be disciplined on his bed with pain
and constant distress in his bones,

His flesh wastes away to nothing,
and his unseen bones stick out.

Afterward, they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

They do not lie down
with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised,
who went down to Sheol
with their weapons of war,
whose swords were placed under their heads.
The punishment for their sins
rested on their bones,
although the terror of these warriors
was once in the land of the living.

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 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

I replied, “Lord God, only You know.”

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

His bones are bronze tubes;
his limbs are like iron rods.

Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am weak;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking;

he went and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the leaders of Jabesh-gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies the day the Philistines killed Saul at Gilboa.

and buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan at Zela in the land of Benjamin in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. They did everything the king commanded. After this, God answered prayer for the land.

The king then gave the command, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the lions’ den—they, their children, and their wives. They had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Moab
for three crimes, even four,
because he burned the bones
of the king of Edom to lime.

I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are disjointed;
my heart is like wax,
melting within me.

I can count all my bones;
people look and stare at me.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief
and my years with groaning;
my strength has failed
because of my sinfulness,
and my bones waste away.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle
from my groaning all day long.

The man of God cried out against the altar by a revelation from the Lord: “Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, ‘A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’”

You hate good and love evil.
You tear off people’s skin
and strip their flesh from their bones.

You eat the flesh of my people
after you strip their skin from them
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”

I heard, and I trembled within;
my lips quivered at the sound.
Rottenness entered my bones;
I trembled where I stood.
Now I must quietly wait for the day of distress
to come against the people invading us.

He protects all his bones;
not one of them is broken.

My very bones will say,
“Lord, who is like You,
rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,
the poor or the needy from one who robs him?”

There is no health in my body
because of Your indignation;
there is no strength in my bones
because of my sin.

My adversaries taunt me,
as if crushing my bones,
while all day long they say to me,
“Where is your God?”

Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Then they will be filled with terror—
terror like no other—
because God will scatter
the bones of those who besiege you.
You will put them to shame,
for God has rejected them.

Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a raiding party, so they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. When he touched Elisha’s bones, the man revived and stood up!

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, then filled their places with human bones.

As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar. He defiled it according to the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who proclaimed these things.

He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of the high places who were there, and he burned human bones on the altars. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity.

So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”

all their brave men set out and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones.

It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.

Look at My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself! Touch Me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.”