Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yehezkiel 37:9

HORGEINI NA HAROG’ (KILL ME, I PRAY THEE). This means that Thou should send upon me those that kill by the sword, for it is better for me to die¹⁸⁷Jonah 4:3. even by the sword of man than to live¹⁸⁷Jonah 4:4. with this grief. It is possible that the sense [of the term horgeini] is “take my life” [and not, as explained before, that it means death by human agency]. A similar [usage of the term is found in these verses]: and let their men be ‘harugei maveth’ (slain of death), and their young men smitten of the sword in battle;¹⁸⁸Jeremiah 18:21. and breathe ‘baharugim ha’eileh’ (upon these slain).¹⁸⁹Ezekiel 37:9. The reference there [according to the plain meaning of Scripture] is to those who died a natural death in the exile (see in R’dak’s commentary there). According to the tradition of the Sages, that the dry bones were those of the tribe of Ephraim who left Egypt thirty years before the exodus and were killed on the way by the men of Gath (see Ramban Vol. II, p. 157), the term baharugim is to be understood literally: “upon those that were killed [by the sword]” (R’dak).

Finally, there is also an allusion to the resurrection of the dead in this procedure of the “waving.” The expression מוליך is reminiscent of Kohelet 12,7 where Solomon speaks of the resurrection saying רוח הולך, “the spirit is walking,” whereas also the word מביא is reminiscent of a similar connotation as it occurs as ותבא בהם הרוח ויחיו, “as soon as the spirit entered them (the bones and the skin and flesh) they revived” (Ezekiel 37,10). The word מעלה also is featured in connection with resurrection in Kohelet 12,7, where Solomon writes והרוח תשוב אל האלו-הים אשר נתנה, “and the spirit returns to the Lord Who had provided it;” Finally, the word מוריד also appears in such a connotation in Ezekiel 37,9: “and blow into these slain ones that they may live.”