The wind - Rather, as noted in the margin and as in Ezekiel 37:5. The bones are the bones of the "slain," because the scene was one which wa…

Upon these slain.— The word is used deliberately. The bones which Ezekiel had seen were those not merely of dead, but of slain men…

Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man,

"Prophesy to the wind." That seems a very absurd thing to do, but t…

Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind
Before he had been prophesying to the bones, and over them; and somethi…

No created power could restore human bones to life. God alone could cause them to live. Skin and flesh covered them, and the wind was then told to …