Ezekiel 37:2
New International Version
He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.

New Living Translation
He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out.

English Standard Version
And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.

Berean Standard Bible
He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry.

King James Bible
And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

New King James Version
Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.

New American Standard Bible
He had me pass among them all around, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and behold, they were very dry.

NASB 1995
He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

NASB 1977
And He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

Legacy Standard Bible
He caused me to pass among them all around, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and behold, they were very dry.

Amplified Bible
He caused me to pass all around them, and behold, there were very many [human bones] in the open valley; and lo, they were very dry.

Christian Standard Bible
He led me all around them. There were a great many of them on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He led me all around them. There were a great many of them on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry.

American Standard Version
And he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he made me pass over them and around them, and I saw that there were very in the plain, and they were very dry

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he led me round about them every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very dry.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD showed me all around, and everywhere I looked I saw bones that were dried out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he led me about through them on every side: now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceeding dry.

English Revised Version
And he caused me to pass by them round about: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and lo, they were very dry.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He led me all around them. I saw that there were very many bones at the bottom of the valley, and they were very dry.

Good News Translation
He led me all around the valley, and I could see that there were very many bones and that they were very dry.

International Standard Version
He led me here and there throughout the valley, and I was amazed to see that the surface of the entire valley was covered with myriads of very dry bones!

JPS Tanakh 1917
and He caused me to pass by them round about, and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

Literal Standard Version
and He causes me to pass over by them, all around, and behold, very many [are] on the face of the valley, and behold—very dry.

Majority Standard Bible
He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry.

New American Bible
He made me walk among them in every direction. So many lay on the surface of the valley! How dry they were!

NET Bible
He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

New Revised Standard Version
He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry.

New Heart English Bible
He caused me to pass by them all around: and look, there were very many in the open valley; and look, they were very dry.

Webster's Bible Translation
And caused me to pass by them around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and lo, they were very dry.

World English Bible
He caused me to pass by them all around; and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and behold, they were very dry.

Young's Literal Translation
and He causeth me to pass over by them, all round about, and lo, very many are on the face of the valley, and lo, very dry.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Valley of Dry Bones
1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. 2He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry. 3Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”…

Cross References
Ezekiel 37:1
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.

Ezekiel 37:3
Then He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones come to life?" "O Lord GOD," I replied, "only You know."


Treasury of Scripture

And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, see, they were very dry.

valley.

Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

they were

Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

Psalm 141:7
Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

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1. By the resurrection of dry bones
11. the dead hope of Israel is revived
15. By the uniting of two sticks
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(2) Very dry--as showing that it was a long time since life had left them, and that the possibility of their living again was far removed.

Verse 2. - And he caused me to pass by them round about. Not over, as Keil, Klie-foth, and Plumptre translate, but round about them, so as to view them from every side. The result of the prophet's inspection of the bones was to excite within him a feeling of surprise which expressed itself in a twofold behold; the first occasioned by a contemplation of their number, very many, and their situation, in the open valley, literally, upon the face of the valley; i.e. not underground, where they could not have been seen, but upon the surface of the soil, and not piled up in heaps, but scattered over the ground; and the second by a discernment of their condition as very dry, so bleached and withered as to foreclose, not the possibility alone, but also the thought of their resuscitation.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He led me
וְהֶעֱבִירַ֥נִי (wə·he·‘ĕ·ḇî·ra·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

all
סָבִ֣יב ׀ (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

around
סָבִ֑יב (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

among them,
עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם (‘ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

and I saw
וְהִנֵּ֨ה (wə·hin·nêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

a great
מְאֹד֙ (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

many [bones]
רַבּ֤וֹת (rab·bō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

on
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the floor
פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

of the valley,
הַבִּקְעָ֔ה (hab·biq·‘āh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1237: A split, a wide level valley between mountains

and indeed
וְהִנֵּ֖ה (wə·hin·nêh)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

they were very
מְאֹֽד׃ (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

dry.
יְבֵשׁ֥וֹת (yə·ḇê·šō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 3002: Dry, dried


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