Eze 37:4-10 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Ezek 37:4-6: 37:4-6 It was God’s will that these bones should live. His will was mediated through the prophetic message that Ezekiel was to speak ... to these bones , declaring that they should be restored into living, breathing bodies again, complete with flesh and muscles and breath . • The word translated breath can also be translated “spirit” or “wind,” a play on words that continues throughout this chapter.

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cGen 2:7►

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‏ Ezekiel 37:4-10

Summary for Ezek 37:4-6: 37:4-6 ^a It was God’s will that these bones should live. His will was mediated through the prophetic message that Ezekiel was to speak ... to these bones, declaring that they should be restored into living, breathing bodies again, complete with flesh and muscles and breath.

• The word translated breath can also be translated “spirit” or “wind,” a play on words that continues throughout this chapter.
Summary for Ezek 37:7-8: 37:7-8 ^b Ezekiel obediently fulfilled his commission to prophesy to the bones, and in response, they came together into whole bodies. Yet a body of bones, muscles and flesh, and skin is still a corpse. These people still had to be filled with breath if they were to live (as in Gen 2:7 ^c).
Summary for Ezek 37:9-10: 37:9-10 ^d When Ezekiel prophesied to the four winds ... breath came into the re-formed bodies and they stood up on their feet as a great army prepared for action. This breath, emblematic of being filled with the Spirit, gave them life and empowered them for action, precisely as had happened to the prophet on two earlier occasions (1:28–2:2 ^e and 3:23-24 ^f).