“As regards these bones, they are the whole house of Israel. Here they are saying, ‘Our bones have become dry, and our hope has perished. We have been severed off to ourselves.’

Ezek. 37:11-14.

The exiled Jews, then inclined to hopelessness, were to become reanimated with new hope based upon the unbreakable word of Jehovah.

The “whole house of Israel” was to share in this, including members of the ten tribes that had been deported earlier by the Assyrians.