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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Ezekiel 37:3

And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? Did it seem possible to human eyes that these dry bones would be restored to life again? And I answered, properly leaving the answer of the question to the Lord's almighty power, O Lord God, Thou knowest. With God nothing is impossible, and therefore the believers trust in Him to perform His mighty deeds at His own time.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 37:3. _CAN THESE BONES LIVE?_] Is it possible that the persons whose bones these are can return to life?...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 37-48 The Future Blessings of Israel, the Nation Regathered, Their Enemies Overthrown, the Millennial Temple, and the Division of the Land _ 1. The vision of the dry bones and Judah and I...

  • 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.). Over...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    To the question, Can these bones live? the prophet, looking at them, could not answer Yea (even to the Apostle attainment unto the resurrection of the dead was something ineffably lofty, Philippians 3...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The vision of Israel's resurrection from the dead The vision seems suggested by the saying current among the people, "our bones are dried, our hope is lost; we are wholly cut off." This idea and feel...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1120 UNIVERSAL RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Ezekiel 37:1. 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 teas fu...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    CAN THESE BONES LIVE?— _Shall these bones revive?_ Houbigant, who observes very justly, that the question is not concerning the possibility of the fact; for the prophet well knew that God could do all...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE REBIRTH OF THE NATION 37:1-28 Ezekiel had been promising God's people a bright future with new leadership and a new Canaan. However, these promises were met with as much skepticism as his earl...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. CAN THESE BONES LIVE? AND I ANSWERED, O LORD GOD, THOU KNOWEST - implying that, humanly speaking, th...

  • 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 certainty o...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 37 THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES – EZEKIEL 37:1-14 V1 I fe

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CAN THESE BONES LIVE? — The question is put to the prophet in order to emphasise the human impossibility of that which is immediately brought about by the Divine omnipotence. (Comp. Matthew 9:5.) It w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י בֶּן ־אָדָ֕ם הֲ תִחְיֶ֖ינָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    LIFE FROM THE DEAD Ezekiel 37:1 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 people of Is...

  • 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 Jewish na...

  • 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 ma...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord's question is very striking. The Lord asketh, not for his information, but for ours. The Prophet's answer is truly modest and becoming. Humanly speaking, the bones could not live. But with Go...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _CAN THESE BONES LIVE?_ ‘Can these bones live?’ Ezekiel 37:3 I need not dwell upon any description of the actual vision itself. I. IN THE FIRST PLACE, UNDER THE FIGURE OF RESURRECTION OF DRY BONES,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 37 reveals the definitive blessing of the people as a fact, without entering into any details of the events that terminate in this blessing. The dry bones of Israel, of the nation as a whole,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?.... Is there any probability of it? is there any reason to believe they shall live? can any ways and means be devised, or any methods taken, to c...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Ver. 3. _Can these bones live?_] In the resurrection at the last day he knew they should, for among th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He caused me to pass by them round about_ To take an exact view of them; _and behold, there were very many in the open valley _ As if it had been a place where a great battle had been fought, and a v...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 No created power could restore human bones to life. God alone could cause them to live. Skin and flesh covered them, and the wind was then told to blow upon these bodies; and they were restored...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE SAID; the Lord, who brought Ezekiel hither, asks him what he thought. CAN THESE BONES LIVE? either, is it likely they should? or, is it a future thing that shall be, or possible, that they may live...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 37:3 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 bones H6106 live H2421 (H8799) answered H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord Yahweh, you know.” Then God questioned Ezekiel as to whether he thought that anything could bring the skeletons to life....

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VISION OF THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES (EZEKIEL 37:1). This vision is not directly an illustration or promise of physical resurrection. Ezekiel nowhere gives any indication of expecting a resurrection...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Ezekiel 37:3 I. We may take Ezekiel's vision as a pledge that God does not abandon a good cause, however dark may appear its prospects at any particular time. There are in the world evils so great tha...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 led...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Vision of the valley of dry bones. Sign of the two sticks. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel, Joseph, Ephraim, Judah. CONCLUSION: He who made man so fearfully and wonderfully can in li...

  • 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 bee...

  • 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 hum...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 37:1 This vision is one of the most famous passages in Ezekiel. While it stands on its own as a statement of God’s power to re-create his people, the context is significant. Th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 37:3 The question CAN THESE BONES LIVE? anticipates the exiles’ view of their own situation (v. Ezekiel 37:11): total hopelessness. It also introdu

  • The 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 witho...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter embraces, in its earlier section (Ezekiel 37:1), the concluding portion of the "word of God" begun at Ezekiel 36:16; in its later section (Ezekiel 36:15), an additional "word,...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 37. THE VISION OF THE DRY BONES RESTORED TO LIFE AGAIN, AS SYMBOLICAL OF ISRAEL'S DEATH AND RESURRECTION. THE preceding prophecies have unfolded, in all essential particulars, the future salv...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 37, again, a prophecy of the restoration of the nation of Israel, the rebirth of the nation. The hand of the LORD was upon me, carried me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Corinthians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 1:9; Acts 26:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And he — The Lord....

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