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The book of Ezekiel is notoriously strange. Ezekiel's visions, actions, and words are bizarre "sometimes utterly incomprehensible" to us. He lies on his side for over a year, he eats a scroll, he is asked to cook with human waste, and he cannot cry at his wife's death. Ezekiel's message seems unavailable to many because we simply don't have "ears to hear."

Other than the opening vision of the “wheel in the middle of the wheel,” the first half of chapter 37 is probably the best known portion of this strange book to audiences otherwise unfamiliar with the Bible. Celebrated in the slave spiritual, “Dem bones, dem bones,” verses 1–14 recount Ezekiel’s testimony to the power of Yahweh to reassemble the skeletons of people long dead, replenish their organs, muscle, and skin, and revivify them. Often
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