Ezekiel 37:2

the often valley lit. on the face of the valley. The bones were strewed over the valley in vast numbers, and they appeared bleached and dry. Their great number no doubt was suggested by the actual fact that vast multitudes of the people had been slain with the sword or had otherwise perished; and their "dryness" expresses at least the utter deadness of the nation and the apparent hopelessness of its revival, if not that it had been long dead (Ezekiel 37:11).