hand: In this vision, the dry bones aptly represent the ruined and desperate state of both Israel and Judah; and the revivification of these bones signifies their restoration to their own land after their captivity, and also their recovery from their present long dispersion. Although this is the primary and genuine scope of the vision, yet the doctrine of a general resurrection of the dead may justly be inferred from it; for "a simile of the resurrection," says Jerome, after Tertullian and others, "would never have been used to signify the restoration of the people of Israel, unless such a future resurrection had been believed and known; because no one attempts to confirm uncertain things by things which have no existence." Eze 1:3, Eze 3:14, Eze 3:22, Eze 33:22, Eze 40:1, Rev 1:10 carried: Eze 8:3, Eze 11:24, 1Ki 18:12, 2Ki 2:16, Luk 4:1, Act 8:39 Reciprocal: 2Ki 13:21 - touched Job 14:14 - shall he live Psa 53:5 - scattered Psa 88:10 - shall Isa 11:11 - set his hand Isa 26:19 - dead men Isa 66:14 - your bones Jer 8:1 - General Eze 8:1 - that the Eze 11:1 - the spirit Eze 37:11 - Our bones Eze 43:5 - the spirit Dan 12:2 - many Mar 12:24 - because Joh 5:28 - for Joh 11:24 - I know Rom 11:15 - but 2Co 1:9 - in God Col 2:13 - dead Heb 6:2 - resurrection