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Bone
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
or Genesis 2:23 (c) This indicates the very intimate relationship which exists between CHRIST and the church. The church in a figure was made possible by His wounded side. As Adam may be taken as a type of CHRIST, so Eve being taken out of him as a very part of him, is a type of the church which owes her very existence to the pains, the suffering and the glory of the Lord JESUS CHRIST. This refers only to the true Church of true born-again believers, and not to the great false church which has been made by men.
Numbers 19:16 (c) Here is a type of anything that is dead. GOD does not want His people to be occupied with the dead things of this world, but with the living things of Heaven. The pleasures and the processes of this world are dead in the sight of GOD and have no spiritual value whatever in the Christian life. We are no longer dead in sins, but alive unto GOD.
Judges 9:2 (b) Abimelech is telling the people that he is related to them by blood, being born of and in the nation of Israel. It is a type of intimate relationship. (See also2Sa 5:1,2Sa 19:13,1Ch 11:1).
Psalm 38:3 (a) The innermost being of the Psalmist would rejoice in GOD's delivering power but, instead, he was filled with sorrow.
Psalm 42:10 (a) David felt it deeply and keenly that GOD's enemies should be able to question GOD's care for him.
Psalm 51:8 (a) By this figure David describes the misery of his heart because of his sin. He is hurt by his conscience as the pain of a broken bone hurts the body. (See Psalm 6:2; Psalm 31:10; Psalm 32:3; Psalm 102:3).
Psalm 141:7 (b) This is a picture of the utter desolation and hopelessness of Israel when they turned their backs on GOD.
Proverbs 3:8 (a) By this symbol Solomon assures that if they will walk with GOD they will be a strong, vigorous, active people, a nation of conquerors.
Proverbs 12:4. (a) The sorrow caused by the unfaithfulness of the wife is compared to a disease that eats away the very vitals of the blood stream, and weakens the whole person.
Proverbs 14:30 (a) Envy is compared to a disease which destroys the very foundations of faith and leaves the person spiritually sick and weak. Since the red blood cells come from the marrow of the bones, so rottenness in that substance destroys the vitality of the body. Envy has the same effect on the soul. It is a hidden malady in the life.
Proverbs 15:30 (a) Good news is compared here to the life-giving effect and power of healthy bones. The good news brings new life and strength into the heart and soul. (See also Proverbs 16:24; Isaiah 58:11; Isaiah 66:14).
Proverbs 17:22 (a) Diseased bones are a type of the bad news that causes the heart to faint, the strength to fail, and joy to cease. This is also a picture of the unhappy effect upon a person who is wholly occupied with his deep sorrows and his broken spirit.
Proverbs 25:15 (b) Here is indicated that a kind answer will soften the hard heart of an enemy and will break down his resistance.
Isaiah 38:13 (a) The pain which the king suffered, both physical and spiritual, hurt him so deeply he felt as if his bones were broken.
Jeremiah 20:9 (a) The prophet was so obsessed with a desire to serve GOD and to testify of and for Him that it stirred his whole being and he felt it as though the bones of his body were affected.
Jeremiah 23:9 (a) The prophet's whole body, as well as his mind. was deeply moved by the words of GOD given in power. He felt it especially because of the great failure of the prophets of Israel.
Jeremiah 50:17 (a) These bones represent the elders and rulers of Israel who were conquered by Nebuchadnezzar.
Ezekiel 24:4 (b) This figure is a prophecy that GOD will gather the choice men, the leading men of Israel, together for judgment because they forsook Him.
Ezekiel 37:11 (a) These dry bones are used as a type of the condition of Israel when she had departed from GOD. The bones were dead, dry, useless, ugly and disjointed. GOD saw them as though they were all in one valley, though actually Israel was scattered over the world. All the bones were there, even the tiny ear bones. No bone was missing. This is a type of the fact that throughout the world GOD has His people in training so that when the nation is revived under GOD's hand and restored to His favor there will be every kind of person there necessary for the operation of the fully equipped empire. He will have electricians, printers, teachers, scientists, physicians, dentists, navigators, farmers, machinists and every other form of human activity. When these bones come to life through the operation of the Spirit of GOD they become mature men, fully equipped for the purposes of GOD. Every bone must be there in order to produce this result. These bones represent the fact that there was a former life which had disappeared. We do not read of the bones of any other nation. GOD still reckons that the Jewish people are one nation, one people, and are to be again His own chosen people.
Zephaniah 3:3 (a) The prophet uses this figure to tell us that the rulers of Jerusalem were deliberate in their wickedness and went about their sinful practices leisurely.
Matthew 23:27 (a) These bones represent the old dead traditions of Israel which were worthless and useless as a means of godliness, but which were handed down from generation to generation for strict observance.
Ephesians 5:30 (a) This indicates the very intimate and sweet relationship which exists between CHRIST and His church.
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Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Bone'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wdt/b/bone.html. 1957.
