Ezekiel 37:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. ”

Ezekiel 37:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Resurrection of the People. Those fair ideals, however, cannot abolish the melancholy reality. The truth is that the exiled people are as good as dead and in their graves ( Ezekiel 37:11 f.)....
Ezekiel 37:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

graves . sepulchres, or burying-places. Hebrew. keber , not Sheol . See App-35. The repetition of this must include resurrection as well as restoration. into the land of Israel . upon the soil...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1121 SOULS QUICKENED BY THE GOSPEL Ezekiel 37:11-13 . Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. I will...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, O my people— That is, you who are truly such: for this most gracious appellation seems evidently taken from the words of the covenant so often mentioned; I will be their God, and they shal...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel....
Ezekiel 37:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The New Israel (Ezekiel 33-48) So long as the Jewish kingdom remained in existence Ezekiel's prophecies (those in Ezekiel 1-24) dealt almost exclusively with the nation's sin, and with the certain...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Open your graves. — In Ezekiel 37:2 it is said that the bones were “in the open valley,” literally, upon the face of the valley. This was a necessity of the vision, in order that they might be...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

LIFE FROM THE DEAD Ezekiel 37:1-28 The most formidable obstacle to faith on the part of the exiles in the possibility of a national redemption was the complete disintegration of the ancient peo...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Resurrection of a Dead Nation Ezekiel 37:1-14 A marvelous chapter-the vision is so graphic. Time does not rob it of its significance. Indeed every sign points to speedy fulfillment. The Jew...
Ezekiel 37:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The wonderful vision of the valley filled with bones was now granted to the prophet. As he gazed on them, he was asked, "Son of man, can these bones live?" His utter abandonment to God, even in the m...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

See, Reader, how the Lord himself hath graciously explained this vision to the Prophet. Whether, as some read it, the subject refers to the restoration of Israel from Babylon, temporally considered;...
Ezekiel 37:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore prophesy, and say unto them ,.... For their comfort, in order to revive their hope, and encourage their faith, in these distressed circumstances: thus saith the Lord, behold, O my people...
Ezekiel 37:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. Ver....
Ezekiel 37:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

These bones are the whole house of Israel These bones represent the forlorn and desperate condition to which the whole nation of Israel is reduced; they say, Our bones are dried , &c. Our affa...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Dry Bones. B. C. 586. 1 The hand of the L ORD was upon me, and carrie...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Prophesy; tell them their mistake, and revive their hope by a new promise and declaration of my purposes of mercy towards them. Say unto them; these poor desponding, dejected Israelites. Behold;...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Vision of The Valley Of Dry Bones ( Ezekiel 37:1-14 ). This vision is not directly an illustration or promise of physical resurrection. Ezekiel nowhere gives any indication of expecting a resu...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE VISION OF THE DRY BONES REVIVIFIED A SYMBOL OF THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF ISRAEL. (Chap. 37.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 37:1 . “The hand of the Lord was upon me.” “The abrupt commencement...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 37:1 . The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, God's servants learn nothing until they have an experience similar to that of Ezekiel. They must be...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 37:14 . I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live. A moral resurrection shall pass upon the people of Israel; the Lord shall “bring them up out of their graves,” where they have long...
Ezekiel 37:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Son of man, can these bones live? The vision of a true revival I. Such a revival often seems utterly hopeless. The condition of a nation in some of its eras of misfortune; the condition of the...
Ezekiel 37:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter embraces, in its earlier section ( Ezekiel 37:1-26 ), the concluding portion of the "word of God" begun at Ezekiel 36:16 ; in its later section ( Ezekiel 36:15-26 ), an...
Ezekiel 37:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vision of the Resurrection
Ezekiel 37:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 4:16 ; Amos 9:14 ; Amos 9:15 ; Ezekiel 28:25 ; Ezekiel 36:24 ; Ezekiel 37:21 ; Ezekiel 37:25 ; Ezra 1:1-2 ; Hosea 13:14 ; Hosea 6:2 ; Isaiah 26:19 ; Isaiah 66:14 ; Job 35...
Ezekiel 37:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I will open — Though your captivity be as death, your persons close as the grave, yet I will open those graves.

Ezekiel 37:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 37:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Ezekiel 37:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 37:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 37:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 37:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 37:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 37:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 37:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 37:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 37:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 37:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 37:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 37:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 37:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 37:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes