Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 37:6
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
6. Then follow the details of their becoming actual men of flesh and blood.
Eze 37:7-10 . As the prophet spoke there was a great sound and the bones came together, bone to his bone, and they became clothed with flesh; but as yet there was no breath of life in them.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 6. I will lay sinews upon you] Observe the progress:
1. Here are the bones.
2. The ligaments, called here sinews, are to be added in order to unite the bones, that the skeleton might be complete.
3. The flesh (the whole muscular system, the subjacent and superjacent muscles, including the arterial and venous system) clothes this skeleton.
4. The skin (the dermis and epidermis, or cutis and cuticle) envelopes the whole of these muscles or flesh; and now these bodies are in the state that the body of Adam was before it received the animal and intellectual principle from God.
5. There was no breath in them-they had not yet received their souls.
6. The wind, ruach, the soul, came into them. They were endued with animal and intellectual life; and they arose and evidenced a complete restoration to life, and began to perform its functions, Eze 37:10.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Sinews tie the bones together.
Flesh fills up the hollownesses, and being full of muscles helps motion.
Skin, as the upper silken garment, covers all with a clear and blushing colour.
Breath lastly must be added. All this God declares he will do, and I suppose these promises are what the prophet is to declare to these bones that they may revive.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
6. ye shall know that I am theLordby the actual proof of My divinity which I will give inreviving Israel.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will lay sinews upon you, and I will bring up flesh upon you,…. That is, before he should cause breath to enter into them; for though it is first mentioned, it is the last done: this is the orderly process; first sinews are laid to join the bones together; then flesh is laid to cover them, and fill up all vacancies, and form muscles to make the bones capable of motion:
and cover you with skin; both bones, sinews, and flesh; for this is uppermost of all, and which makes the whole smooth and beautiful. Job expresses his formation in much such language, “thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews”,
Job 10:11:
and put breath in you, and ye shall live; which is repeated for the confirmation of it:
and ye shall know that I am the Lord; the Lord God omnipotent, the Lord gracious and merciful, and your Lord and God: so men, when they are called by grace, know the Lord, they did not before; having an experience of his powerful and efficacious grace upon their hearts, they know him to be theirs and own and acknowledge him, and profess him before men.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 37:6. And I will lay, &c. For, &c.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 37:6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 6. And cover you with skin. ] Superindam; that the flesh may not look ghastly. The word rendered cover is Chaldee, and found only here and Eze 37:8 .
And put breath in you, and ye shall live.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Put breath, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen 2:7), App-92.
ye shall know, &c. See note on Eze 6:7.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will: Eze 37:8-10
ye shall: Eze 37:14, Eze 6:7, Eze 6:13, Eze 7:4, Eze 7:9, Eze 11:10, Eze 11:12, Eze 20:38, Eze 28:22-26, Eze 32:15, Eze 34:27, Eze 35:9, Eze 35:12, Eze 35:15, Eze 38:23, Eze 39:6, Eze 39:22, Eze 39:28, Deu 29:6, 1Ki 20:28, Isa 49:23, Joe 2:27, Joe 3:17
Reciprocal: Eze 36:11 – and ye Eze 37:13 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 37:6. The parts mentioned here had been removed by time and decay leaving only the dead, dry bones. Again the main point is that I am the Lord.