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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 37:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Eze 37:12 |
Strong Concordance |
Therefore prophesy [05012] and say [0559] unto them, Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Behold, O my people [05971], I will open [06605] your graves [06913], and cause you to come up [05927] out of your graves [06913], and bring [0935] you into the land [0127] of Israel [03478]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
my people--in antithesis to "for our parts" (Eze 37:11). The hope that is utterly gone, if looking at themselves, is sure for them in God, because He regards them as His people. Their covenant relation to God ensures His not letting death permanently reign over them. Christ makes the same principle the ground on which the literal resurrection rests. God had said, "I am the God of Abraham," &c.; God, by taking the patriarchs as His, undertook to do for them all that Omnipotence can perform: He, being the ever living God, is necessarily the God of, not dead, but living persons, that is, of those whose bodies His covenant love binds Him to raise again. He can--and because He can--He will--He must [FAIRBAIRN]. He calls them "My people" when receiving them into favor; but "thy people," in addressing His servant, as if He would put them away from Him (Eze 13:17; Eze 33:2; Exo 32:7).
out of your graves--out of your politically dead state, primarily in Babylon, finally hereafter in all lands (compare Eze 6:8; Hos 13:14). The Jews regarded the lands of their captivity and dispersion as their "graves"; their restoration was to be as "life from the dead" (Rom 11:15). Before, the bones were in the open plain (Eze 37:1-2); now, in the graves, that is, some of the Jews were in the graves of actual captivity, others at large but dispersed. Both alike were nationally dead. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| I will open - Though your captivity be as death, your persons close as the grave, yet I will open those graves. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
I will open your graves - Here is a pointed allusion to the general resurrection; a doctrine properly credited and understood by the Jews, and to which our Lord refers, Joh 5:25, Joh 5:28, Joh 5:29 : "The hour is coming when they that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and come forth."
And cause you to come up out of your graves - I am determined that ye shall be restored; so that were ye even in your graves, as mankind at the general resurrection, yet my all-powerful voice shall call you forth. |
1 The hand [03027] of the LORD [03068] was upon me, and carried me out [03318] in the spirit [07307] of the LORD [03068], and set me down [05117] in the midst [08432] of the valley [01237] which was full [04392] of bones [06106],
2 And caused me to pass [05674] by them round about [05439]: and, behold, there were very [03966] many [07227] in the open [06440] valley [01237]; and, lo, they were very [03966] dry [03002].
15 For [1063] if [1487] the casting away [580] of them [846] be the reconciling [2643] of the world [2889], what [5101] shall the receiving [4356] of them be, but [1508] life [2222] from [1537] the dead [3498]?
14 I will ransom [06299] them from the power [03027] of the grave [07585]; I will redeem [01350] them from death [04194]: O death [04194], I will [0165] be thy plagues [01698]; O grave [07585], I will [0165] be thy destruction [06987]: repentance [05164] shall be hid [05641] from mine eyes [05869].
8 Yet will I leave a remnant [03498], that ye may have some that shall escape [06412] the sword [02719] among the nations [01471], when ye shall be scattered [02219] through the countries [0776].
7 And the LORD [03068] said [01696] unto Moses [04872], Go [03212], get thee down [03381]; for thy people [05971], which thou broughtest [05927] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], have corrupted [07843] themselves:
2 Son [01121] of man [0120], speak [01696] to the children [01121] of thy people [05971], and say [0559] unto them, When I bring [0935] the sword [02719] upon a land [0776], if the people [05971] of the land [0776] take [03947] a [0259] man [0376] of their coasts [07097], and set [05414] him for their watchman [06822]:
17 Likewise, thou son [01121] of man [0120], set [07760] thy face [06440] against the daughters [01323] of thy people [05971], which prophesy [05012] out of their own heart [03820]; and prophesy [05012] thou against them,
11 Then he said [0559] unto me, Son [01121] of man [0120], these bones [06106] are the whole house [01004] of Israel [03478]: behold, they say [0559], Our bones [06106] are dried [03001], and our hope [08615] is lost [06]: we are cut off [01504] for our parts.
29 And [2532] shall come forth [1607]; they that have done [4160] good [18], unto [1519] the resurrection [386] of life [2222]; and [1161] they that have done [4238] evil [5337], unto [1519] the resurrection [386] of damnation [2920].
28 Marvel [2296] not [3361] at this [5124]: for [3754] the hour [5610] is coming [2064], in [1722] the which [3739] all [3956] that are in [1722] the graves [3419] shall hear [191] his [846] voice [5456],
25 Verily [281], verily [281], I say [3004] unto you [5213], [3754] The hour [5610] is coming [2064], and [2532] now [3568] is [2076], when [3753] the dead [3498] shall hear [191] the voice [5456] of the Son [5207] of God [2316]: and [2532] they that hear [191] shall live [2198].