Eze 37:1

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Eze 37:1 By the resurrection of dry bones,

Eze 37:11 the dead hope of Israel is revived.

Eze 37:15 By the uniting of two sticks,

Eze 37:18 is shewn the incorporation of Israel into Judah.

Eze 37:21 The promises of Christ's kingdom.

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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."

Ezek 1:3; Ezek 3:14; Ezek 3:22; Ezek 33:22; Ezek 40:1; Rev 1:10

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Ezek 8:3; Ezek 11:24; 1Kgs 18:12; 2Kgs 2:16; Luke 4:1; Acts 8:39