Ezek 37
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And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit,
and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones.
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And he led me round about them Gr. in a circle every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very
dry.
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And he said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? and I said, O Lord God, you
know this.
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And he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and you shall say to them, You dry bones,
hear the word of the Lord.
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Thus says the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life:
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and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and will spread
skin upon you, and will put my Spirit into you, and you shall live; and you shall
know that I am the Lord.
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So I prophesied as the Lord commanded me: and it came to pass while I was prophesying,
that, behold, there was a shaking, and the bones approached each one to his joint.
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And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and Lit. skins came up upon skin came upon them above: but there
was not breath in them.
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And he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind,
Thus says the Lord; Come from the four winds, and breathe upon these dead men, and
let them live.
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So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath entered into them, and they lived,
and stood upon their feet, a very great congregation.
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And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:
and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent.
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therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I will open your tombs, and
will bring you up out of your tombs, and will bring you into the land of Israel.
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And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may
bring up my people from their graves.
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And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you upon
your own land: and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and will do it,
says the Lord.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Son of man, take for yourself a rod, and write upon it, Juda, and the children of
Israel his adherents; and you shall take for yourself another rod, and you shall inscribe
it for Joseph, the rod of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel Gr. that are added to him that belong to him.
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And you shall joint them together for yourself, so as that they should bind themselves
into one stick; and they shall be in your hand.
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And it shall come to pass, when the children of your people shall say to you, Will
you not tell us what you mean by these things?
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Then shall you say to them, Thus says the Lord; behold, I will take the tribe of Joseph,
which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that belong to him, and
I will add them to the tribe of Juda, and they shall become one rod in the hand of
Juda.
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And the rods on which you did write shall be in your hand in their presence.
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And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will take the whole house
of Israel out of the midst of the nations, among whom they have gone, and I will gather
them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel.
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And I will make them a nation in my land, even on the mountains of Israel; and they
shall have one prince: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall Gr. there shall be one prince of them they be
divided any more at all into two kingdoms:
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that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them
from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and
they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.
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And my servant David shall be a prince in the midst of them: there shall be one shepherd
of them all; for they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my judgements, and do
them.
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And they shall dwell in their land, which I have given to my servant Jacob, where
their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it: Alex. +’and their children and their children’s children for ever’ and
David my servant shall be their prince forever.
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And I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant
with them; and I will establish my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever.
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2 Co 6:16 And my tabernacle shall be among them; and I will be to them a God, and they shall
be my people.
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And the nations shall know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them, when my sanctuary
is in the midst of them for ever.