'Bones' in the Bible

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up bones under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said to him, "Sovereign Lord, you know."

Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.

So I prophesied as I was commanded. There was a sound when I prophesied -- I heard a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, 'Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.'