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Eze 37:12 — Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Therefore		Job 35:14,15
I will open		"This is a pointed allusion to the resurrection; under which figure Isaiah ( Isa 26:9; also describes the restoration of the house of Israel, when he says, ""thy dead men shall live;"" at which time their bones are said to flourish, ( Isa 66:14; ) or to be restored to their former strength and vigour; and, in like manner, St. Paul, (Rom 11:15,) expresses their conversion by ""life from the dead."" In the land of their captivity, they seemed as absolutely deprived of their country as persons committed to the grave are cut off from the land of the living; but when Cyrus issued his proclamation, Jehovah, as it were, opened their graves, and when he stirred up their spirits to embrace the proffered liberty, he put his Spirit within them, that they might live; and their re-establishment in their own land evinced the truth of God in the prediction, and his power in its accomplishment. Eze 37:21; Isa 26:19; Isa 66:14; Hsa 6:2; Hsa 13:14; 1Th 4:16; Rev 20:13"
and bring		Eze 37:25; Eze 28:25; Eze 36:24; Ezr 1;2; Amo 9:14,15

Correlating Passages

Therefore

	Job 35:14	Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.
	Job 35:15	But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity:

I will open

	Isa 26:9	With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
	Isa 66:14	And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his enemies.
	Rom 11:15	For if the casting away of them [be] the reconciling of the world, what [shall] the receiving [of them be], but life from the dead?
	Eze 37:21	And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
	Isa 26:19	Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
	Isa 66:14	And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his enemies.
	Hsa 6:2	After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
	Hsa 13:14	I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
	1Th 4:16	For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
	Rev 20:13	And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

and bring

	Eze 37:25	And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, [even] they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever.
	Eze 28:25	Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
	Eze 36:24	For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
	Ezr 1:1	Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and [put it] also in writing, saying,
	Ezr 1:2	Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah.
	Ezr 1:3	Who [is there] among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he [is] the God,) which [is] in Jerusalem.
	Ezr 1:4	And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that [is] in Jerusalem.
	Ezr 1:5	Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all [them] whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which [is] in Jerusalem.
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	Ezr 2:1	Now these [are] the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
	Ezr 2:2	Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
	Ezr 2:3	The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
	Ezr 2:4	The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
	Ezr 2:5	The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.
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	Amo 9:14	And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
	Amo 9:15	And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ezekiel 37:12," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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