EZEKIEL—NOTE ON Ezekiel 37:15 The idea of homecoming in the “dry bones” vision (vv. Ezekiel 37:1) provides a link to this oracle (see vv. Ezekiel 37:21, Ezekiel 37:25). This dramatized prophecy prompts questions from the onlookers (v. Ezekiel 37:18), which leads to two oracles: vv. Ezekiel 37:19 announce the reunification of the old northern and southern kingdoms; vv. Ezekiel 37:21 give the renewed nation its moral and political shape. Verses Ezekiel 37:24 further explain the second oracle. The closing verses, with their allusions to the temple, provide a bridge to chs. Ezekiel 40:1.

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