Can These Bones Live? Two Sticks Made One and a Final Enemy Overthrown | Ezekiel 37–39

Word for Word: The Bible · Sep 16, 2026 · 17m

Episode Overview

Today we read Ezekiel chapters 37 through 39, beginning with one of the most famous scenes in all of Scripture. Ezekiel is set down in the middle of a valley filled with bones—not recently fallen, but very dry, long past any hope. God asks him a question that is really a test of imagination: son of man, can these bones live? Ezekiel's answer is honest and careful. Sovereign Lord, you alone know.

Then he is told to prophesy to the bones, and as he speaks there is a noise, a rattling, and the bones come together, tendon by tendon, until a vast army stands on its feet. The…