- Text
- Textual versions
- Structure
- Verse 9
- Verse 24
- See also
- Notes and references
- Bibliography
- External links Jewish Christian
Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
}}Ezekiel 37 is the thirty-seventh chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Ezekiel, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets.[1] This chapter contains a vision of the resurrection of dry bones, widely known as the vision of the "valley of dry bones", in which Ezekiel at last assures the captives in Babylon that they will return from exile.[2]Text
The original text is written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 28 verses.
Textual versions
Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:
- Masoretic Text (10th century)
- Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC) [3]
- Masada (MasEzek): extant verses 1‑14, 16, 23, 28
- Pseudo-Ezekiel [4]
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; 
B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).{{sfn|Würthwein|1995|pp=73-74}}
Structure
NKJV groups this chapter into:
- {{bibleref2|Ezekiel|37:1-14}} = The Dry Bones Live
- {{bibleref2|Ezekiel|37:15-28}} = One Kingdom, One King
Verse 9
"Also He said to me,
“Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath,
‘Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath,
and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”" (NKJV)[5]
- "Son of man" (Hebrew: בן־אדם {{Strong-number|ḇen|H|01121}}-{{Strong-number|’ā-ḏām|H|00120}}): this phrase is used 93 times to address Ezekiel.{{sfn|Bromiley|1995|p=574}}
- "Breath" (Hebrew: רוח {{Strong-number|rū-akh|H|07307}}: in this sense, "breath of life", can also translated to "wind", "spirit", or "animus."{{sfn|Brown|1994|"רוּחַ"}}{{sfn|Gesenius|1979|"רוּחַ"}}{{sfn|The Nelson Study Bible|1997|p=1395-1396}}[6]
Verse 24
David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd;
they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. (NKJV)[7]
See also
{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}- David
- Ephraim
- Israel
- Jacob
- Joseph
- Judah
- Related Bible parts: Genesis 2, 2 Samuel 7, John 1, John 2
Notes and references
1. ^Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
2. ^Blenkinsopp, p.178
3. ^{{cite journal |author=Timothy A. J. Jull |author2=Douglas J. Donahue |author3=Magen Broshi |author4= Emanuel Tov |url=https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/1642 | title=Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert |journal=Radiocarbon |volume=38 |number=1 |year=1995 |page=14 |accessdate=26 November 2014}}
4. ^Devorah Dinant—XXI: Parabiblical Texts 4, Pseudo-Prophetic Texts DJD 30. Oxford, Clarendon 2001
5. ^{{bibleref2|Ezekiel|37:9|NKJV}}
6. ^The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. p. 1233-1235 Hebrew Bible. {{ISBN|978-0195288810}}
7. ^{{bibleref2|Ezekiel|37:24|NKJV}}
2. ^Blenkinsopp, p.178
3. ^{{cite journal |author=Timothy A. J. Jull |author2=Douglas J. Donahue |author3=Magen Broshi |author4= Emanuel Tov |url=https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/1642 | title=Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert |journal=Radiocarbon |volume=38 |number=1 |year=1995 |page=14 |accessdate=26 November 2014}}
4. ^Devorah Dinant—XXI: Parabiblical Texts 4, Pseudo-Prophetic Texts DJD 30. Oxford, Clarendon 2001
5. ^{{bibleref2|Ezekiel|37:9|NKJV}}
6. ^The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. p. 1233-1235 Hebrew Bible. {{ISBN|978-0195288810}}
7. ^{{bibleref2|Ezekiel|37:24|NKJV}}
Bibliography
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| last3 = Driver
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| year = 1994
| edition = reprint
| publisher = Hendrickson Publishers
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- {{Cite book
|last = Clements
|first = Ronald E
|title = Ezekiel
|publisher = Westminster John Knox Press
|year = 1996
|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cB5WoWI3FRAC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Ezekiel++By+Ronald+Ernest+Clements#v=onepage&q&f=false
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- {{cite book
| last = Gesenius
| first = H. W. F.
| title = Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index.
| translator-last = Tregelles
| translator-first = Samuel Prideaux
| year = 1979
| edition = 7th
| publisher = Baker Book House
}}
- {{Cite book
|last =Joyce
|first =Paul M.
|title =Ezekiel: A Commentary
|publisher =Continuum
|year =2009
|url =https://books.google.com/?id=LRepfsso2p0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=commentary+Ezekiel#v=onepage&q=commentary%20Ezekiel&f=false
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External links
Jewish
- Ezekiel 37 Hebrew with Parallel English
- Ezekiel 37 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary
Christian
- Ezekiel 37 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate
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