Ezekiel 37:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Caused me; I was made to go round about them, in the same manner in which I was carried to see them. Round about; round, round, perhaps twice or oftener, to view them well. Behold: he reports what he observed remarkable. Very many; first for number, they were not only many, but very many, as Ezekiel 37:10, they made an exceeding great army. In the open valley; next the place, the face or surface of the plain, exposed to wind, weather, and to violence. Very dry; the quality of them, dry, very dry, in which could be nothing that might promise life.

Ezekiel 37:2

2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley;a and, lo, they were very dry.