Ezekiel 37
| Ezekiel 37 | |
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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. | |
| Book | Book of Ezekiel |
| Bible part | Old Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 26 |
| Category | Nevi'im |
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]
Ancient translations in Koine Greek:
- Septuagint
- Theodotion version
Structure
NKJV groups this chapter into:
- Ezekiel 37:1-14 = The Dry Bones Live
- 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,
- "Son of man" (Hebrew: בן־אדם ḇen-’ā-ḏām): this phrase is used 93 times to address Ezekiel.[6]
- "Breath" (Hebrew: רוח rū-akh: in this sense, "breath of life", can also translated to "wind", "spirit", or "animus."[7][8][9][10]
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)[11]
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
- ↑ Blenkinsopp, p.178
- ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ↑ Devorah Dinant—XXI: Parabiblical Texts 4, Pseudo-Prophetic Texts DJD 30. Oxford, Clarendon 2001
- ↑ Ezekiel 37:9
- ↑ Bromiley 1995, p. 574.
- ↑ Brown, 1994 & "רוּחַ".
- ↑ Gesenius, 1979 & "רוּחַ".
- ↑ The Nelson Study Bible 1997, p. 1395-1396.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Ezekiel 37:24
Bibliography
- Blenkinsopp, Joseph. "A history of prophecy in Israel" (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996)
- Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1995). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: vol. iv, Q-Z. Eerdmans.
- Brown, Francis; Briggs, Charles A.; Driver, S. R. (1994). The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (reprint ed.). Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 978-1565632066.
- Clements, Ronald E (1996). Ezekiel. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664252724.
- Gesenius, H. W. F. (1979). Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index. Translated by Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux (7th ed.). Baker Book House.
- Joyce, Paul M. (2009). Ezekiel: A Commentary. Continuum. ISBN 9780567483614.
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