Ezekiel 37:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 37 By the resurrection of dry bones the revival of the lost hope of Israel is prefigured, Ezekiel 37:1-14. By the uniting of two sticks is showed the incorporation of Israel with Judah, Ezekiel 37:15-19. Their blessings in union under Christ their king, Ezekiel 37:20-28. The hand; either the prophetic Spirit, as Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 8:1, moving him to prophesy by this emblem; or else the Spirit of God carrying him visionally, not corporeally, as in Eze 8, into such a prospect or landscape. In the spirit; either in the power of the Spirit of God, or it may refer to the prophet's own spirit, he was in his spirit, or mind and apprehension. Set me down; so it seemed to me in the vision, that I was set gently down. In the valley; it is vain to inquire what valley this should be, which was visional, not corporeal or real. Full of bones: it is as vain to inquire whose bones these were, they are visional, and hieroglyphics of Israel's present condition.

Ezekiel 37:1

1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,