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I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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God's "I Will" Promise
Commentators emphasize that the restoration of the dry bones is entirely God's work. Phrases like "I will lay sinews" and "I will put breath in you" highlight God's sovereign and unconditional promise. As Charles Spurgeon notes, God proclaims His message and then He Himself fulfills His own purposes, demonstrating His absolute power to bring life from death.
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Ezekiel
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19th Century
Baptist
He had to tell these bones the unconditional purposes and promises of God: "I will," and "you shall;" and this is the way in which God works out hi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will lay sinews upon you, and I will bring up flesh upon you That is, before he…
Presbyterian
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 …
