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flesh came upon them, and the skin covered and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My
them over; but there was no breath in them. people, and I will be their God.
9 Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, 24 “David My servant shall be king over them,
prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, and they shall all have one shepherd; they
‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Come from the four shall also walk in My judgments and observe
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winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, My statutes, and do them. Then they shall
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that they may live.” ’ ” So I prophesied as He dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My
commanded me, and breath came into them, servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they
and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an shall dwell there, they, their children, and
exceedingly great army. their children’s children, forever; and My ser-
11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these vant David shall be their prince forever. More-
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bones are the whole house of Israel. They over I will make a covenant of peace with them,
indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is and it shall be an everlasting covenant with
lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ Therefore them; I will establish them and multiply them,
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prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord and I will set My sanctuary in their midst
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GOD: “Behold, O My people, I will open your forevermore. My tabernacle also shall be with
graves and cause you to come up from your them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall
graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. be My people. The nations also will know that
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13 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary
I have opened your graves, O My people, and is in their midst forevermore.” ’ ”
brought you up from your graves. I will put Now the word of the LORD came to me,
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My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will 38 saying, “Son of man, set your face
place you in your own land. Then you shall against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince
know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and per- of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy
formed it,” says the LORD.’ ” against him, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord
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15 Again the word of the LORD came to me, GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the
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saying, “As for you, son of man, take a stick prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. I will
for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for turn you around, put hooks into your jaws,
the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then and lead you out, with all your army, horses,
take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great
the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of company with bucklers and shields, all of
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Israel, his companions.’ Then join them one them handling swords. Persia, Ethiopia, and
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to another for yourself into one stick, and they Libya are with them, all of them with shield
will become one in your hand. and helmet; Gomer and all its troops; the
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18 “And when the children of your people speak house of Togarmah from the far north and all
to you, saying, ‘Will you not show us what you its troops—many people are with you.
mean by these?’— say to them, ‘Thus says the 7 “Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all
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Lord GOD: “Surely I will take the stick of Jo- your companies that are gathered about you;
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seph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the and be a guard for them. After many days you
tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join will be visited. In the latter years you will
them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make come into the land of those brought back from
them one stick, and they will be one in My the sword and gathered from many people on
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hand.” ’ And the sticks on which you write the mountains of Israel, which had long been
will be in your hand before their eyes. desolate; they were brought out of the nations,
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21 “Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord and now all of them dwell safely. You will
GOD: “Surely I will take the children of Israel ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land
from among the nations, wherever they have like a cloud, you and all your troops and many
gone, and will gather them from every side peoples with you.”
and bring them into their own land; and I will 10 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it
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make them one nation in the land, on the shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in
mountains of Israel; and one king shall be your mind, and you will make an evil plan:
king over them all; they shall no longer be two 11 You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of un-
nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two walled villages; I will go to a peaceful people,
kingdoms again. They shall not defile them- who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without
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selves anymore with their idols, nor with their walls, and having neither bars nor gates’— to
detestable things, nor with any of their trans- take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out
gressions; but I will deliver them from all their your hand against the waste places that are
dwelling places in which they have sinned, again inhabited, and against a people gathered
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