'Bones' in the Bible
I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile [of wood] for the bones under [the caldron]; make it boil well; yes, let its bones be boiled in its midst.
Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered, Lord Yahweh, you know.
Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.