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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 37 MSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/37.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//ezekiel/37-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">MSB</a> > Ezekiel 37</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/msb/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/36.htm" title="Ezekiel 36">◄</a> Ezekiel 37 <a href="../ezekiel/38.htm" title="Ezekiel 38">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/ezekiel/37.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Valley of Dry Bones<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” <p class="reg">“O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> to enter you, and you will come to life. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So I prophesied as I had been commanded. And as I prophesied, there was suddenly a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’ <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.’” <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">One Nation with One King<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“And you, son of man, take a single stick<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’ <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand. <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’ <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’ <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never again be divided into two kingdoms. <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>My dwelling place<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>spirit</i>; also in verses 6, 9, and 10<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>branch</i>; also in verses 17, 19, and 20<br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Many Hebrew manuscripts (see also LXX); most Hebrew manuscripts <i>all their dwelling places where they sinned</i><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>My tabernacle</i><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> Cited in <a href="../2_corinthians/6.htm#16">2 Corinthians 6:16</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="//majoritybible.com">The Holy Bible, Majority Standard Bible, MSB</a> is produced in cooperation with <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a>, <a href="//discoverybible.com">Discovery Bible</a>, <a href="//openbible.com">OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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