17 He used to confirm what Ezekiel said: “Will these dry bones live?” (WEB) 18 For he didn’t forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, “I will kill, and I will make alive.” (WEB)
4 Maccabees 18:17–18
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Sirach 48:4–6
4 How you were glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is like yours? (WEB) 5 You raised up a dead man from death, from Hades, by the word of the Most High. (WEB) 6 You brought down kings to destruction, and honorable men from their sickbeds. (WEB)
Numbers 24:22–24
22 Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.” 23 Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it? 24 Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish forever.”
Ezekiel 37:2–4
2 He led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry. 3 Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.” 4 And He said to me, “Prophesy concer…
2 Esdras 7:128–130
128 if they are overcome, they will suffer as you have said, but if they get the victory, they will receive the thing that I say. (WEB) 129 For this is the way that Moses spoke to the people while he lived, saying, ‘Choose life, that you may live!’ (WEB) 130 Nevertheless they didn’t b… (WEB)
2 Baruch 84:1–3
1 Behold! I have therefore made known unto you (these things) whilst I live: for I have said (it) that ye should learn the things that are excellent; for the Mighty One hath commanded me to instruct you: and I will set before you some of the commandments of His… (2BA)
Matthew 22:30–32
30 In the resurrection, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you: 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the Go…
Odes of Solomon 42:19–21
19 And I made a congregation of living men amongst his dead men, and I spake with them by living lips: (ODE) 20 Because my word shall not be void: (ODE) 21 And those who had died ran towards me: and they cried and said, Son of God, have pity on us, and do with us according to thy k… (ODE)
1 Samuel 2:5–7
5 The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away. 6 The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. 7 The LORD sends poverty and weal…
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