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Ezekiel and the valley of the dry bones. Wouldn’t that be something? At least in an interim sense (1948). Of course King David is about Jesus and His Church.

Ezekiel 37

1. The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

2. 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.

3. And He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?'' So I answered, "O Lord God, You know.''

4. Again He said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, `O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!

5. `Thus says the Lord God to these bones: "Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

6. "I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.''

7. So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.

8. Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.

9. Then He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, `Thus says the Lord God: "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.'' ' ''

10. So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.

11. Then He said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, `Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!'

12. "Therefore prophesy and say to them, `Thus says the Lord God: "Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13. "Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.

14. "I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken it and performed it,'' says the Lord.' ''

15. Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

16. "As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: `For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, `For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.'

17. "Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.

18. "And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, `Will you not show us what you mean by these?'

19. "say to them, `Thus says the Lord God: "Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.'' '

20. "And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

21. "Then say to them, `Thus says the Lord God: "Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;

22. "and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.

23. "They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

24. "David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.

25. "Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children's children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever.

26. "Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

27. "My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

28. "The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.'' ' ''

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Israel’s return to Palestine, 1948:

http://historyreally.org/hist15.html

Isaiah 44:

27. Who says to the deep, `Be dry! and I will dry up your rivers';

28. who says of Cyrus, `He is My shepherd, and he shall perform all My pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem, "You shall be built,'' and to the temple, "Your foundation shall be laid.'' '

Isaiah 45

1. "Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut:

2. `I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron.

Ezra 6

1. Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

2. And at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found, and in it a record was written thus:

3. In the first year of King Cyrus, King Cyrus issued a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem: "Let the house be rebuilt, the place where they offered sacrifices; and let the foundations of it be firmly laid, its height sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits,

4. with three rows of heavy stones and one row of new timber. Let the expenses be paid from the king's treasury.

5. Also let the gold and silver articles of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple which is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and taken back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; and deposit them in the house of God''

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Zechariah 14

1. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst.

2. For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

3. Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

4. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.

5. Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, for the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with You.

6. It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light; the lights will diminish.

7. It shall be one day which is known to the Lord neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen that it will be light.

8. And in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; in both summer and winter it shall occur.

9. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be "the Lord is one,'' and His name one.

10. All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.

11. The people shall dwell in it; and no longer shall there be utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

12. And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, and their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.

13. It shall come to pass in that day that a great panic from the Lord will be among them. Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor, and raise his hand against his neighbor's hand;

14. Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be gathered together: gold, silver, and apparel in great abundance.

15. Such also shall be the plague on the horse and the mule, on the camel and the donkey, and on all the cattle that will be in those camps. So shall this plague be.

16. And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

17. And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain.

18. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

19. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

20. In that day "HOLINESS TO THE LORD'' shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

21. Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.