² He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.

¹¹ Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’^(A)

³⁰ As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh,^(A) in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.^(B)