--- title: Ezekiel 37 slug: kjv/ezekiel-37 createdAt: 2024-08-22T05:42:23.971Z --- **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, **2 **And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, *there were* very many in the open valley; and, lo, *they were* very dry. **3 **And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. **4 **Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. **5 **Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: **6 **And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I *am* the LORD. **7 **So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. **8 **And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but *there was* no breath in them. **9 **Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. **10 **So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. **11 **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 is lost: we are cut off for our parts. **12 **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. **13 **And ye shall know that I *am* the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, **14 **And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken *it*, and performed *it*, saith the LORD. **15 **The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, **16 **Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and *for* all the house of Israel his companions: **17 **And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. **18 **And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou *meanest* by these? **19 **Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which *is* in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, *even* with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. **20 **And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. **21 **And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: **22 **And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: **23 **Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. **24 **And David my servant *shall be* king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. **25 **And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, *even* they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David *shall be* their prince for ever. **26 **Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. **27 **My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. **28 **And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.