Ezekiel 37:5 - Exposition

I will cause breath to eater into you ; literally, I am causing breath (or, spirit ) to enter into you . The real agent, therefore, in the resuscitation of the bones was to be, not the prophet or the word, but Jehovah himself; and that the end aimed at by the Divine activity was "life" shows the breath spoken of (ruach) was not to be the wind, as in Ezekiel 37:9 , or the Spirit, but the breath of life, as in Genesis 6:17 and Genesis 7:22 (comp. Genesis 2:7 ; Psalms 104:30 ; Isaiah 26:19 ).