The description of the gates. n m 17 Then brought he me into " the out- || from gate to gate toward the south an hunward court, and, lo, there were " chambers, dred cubits. and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement. 18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. g 19 Then he measured the breadth from the fore-front of the lower gate unto the fore-front of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward. 20 And the gate of the outward court "that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. 21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the 'arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm-trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. 23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits. 24 After that he brought me toward ¶ the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures. 25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. 27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured m Rev. 11. 2. n 1 Kings 6. 5. och. 45. 5. g Or, from without. h Heb. whose face VOL. 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Nos. 83 & 4. 2 B 28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures; 29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30 And the arches round about were Pfive and twenty cubits long, and five cubits *broad. 31 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps. 32¶ And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that site and the going up to it had eight steps. 35 ¶ And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; 36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 37 And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and palia-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. 38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering. was. i Or, galleries or, porches. p Soo verso 21, & 25, & 33, & 36. & Heb. breadth 193 The eight tables, &c 49 The length of the porch was twenty 39 ¶ And in the porch of the gate were the gate was three cubits on this side, and two tables on this side, and two tables on three cubits on that side. that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering and the sin-offering and the trespass-cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they offering. went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. 40 And at the side without, 'as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt-offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice. m 43 And within were TM hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. 44 ¶ And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate haring the prospect toward the north. 45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the "charge of the house. 46 And the cnamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, "the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to X CHAP. XLI. [BEFORE CHRIST 574.] The measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 2 And the breadth of the "door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. a 4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. 5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6 b And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round minister unto him. about, that they might have hold, but they 47 So he measured the court, an hun-had not hold in the wall of the house. before the house. d dred cubits long, and an hundred cubits 7 And there was an enlarging, and a broad, four-square; and the altar that was winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house; therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. 48 ¶ And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of 1 Chrou q Lev. 4.2, 3. r Lev. 5. 6. & 6. 6. & 7. 1. Or, at the step. m Or, endirons, or, the two earth-stones. ■ 1 Chron. 6. 31. t Lov. 8. 35. Num. 3. 27, 28, 32, 38. & 18. 5. 9.23. 2 Chron. 13. 11. Ps. 134. 1. n Or, ward, or, ordinance: And so ver. 46. u Num. 18. 5. ch. 44. 15. x 1 Kings 2. 35. ch. 43. 19. & 14. 15. 16. v 1 Kings 6. 3. 21 Kings 7. 21. 2 Chronicles 3. 8. bl King 55,6 n. three and thirty times. or food or be holden. e Heb. it was made broader and went round a Or, entrance a 1 Kings 6. 20 and ornaments of the temple. CHAP. XLII. The chambers for the priests. 8 I saw also the height of the house round || between a cherub and a cherub; and every about the foundations of the side cham- cherub had two faces; d bers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within. 10 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palmtree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple. 21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22h The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD. 1 k 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors 24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palmtrees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. 26 And there were m narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; 16 The door-posts, and the narrow win-thick planks. dows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; е h g 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. f 18 And it was made with cherubims and palm-trees, so that a palm-tree was CHAP. XLII. 1 The chambers for the priests. 13 The use thereof. 19 The measures of the outward court. [BEFORE CHRIST 574.] THEN he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. 2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. deh. 40.5. f Or, several walks, or, walks with pillars. ech. 40. 16. ver. 26. g Heb. 6.29. g See ch. 1. 10. k Heb. post. h Ex. 30. i. ich. 44. 16. seiling of wood. h Or, and the grouna unto the windows. i Heb. measures. flKings 8. 11 Kings 6.31-35 m ch.40 16. ver. 16. CHAP. XLII. Mal. 1. 7, 12. Ex. 30. a ch. 41. 12, 15. The chambers for the priests. e d EZEKIEL. The measures of the outward court 3 Over against the twenty cubits which || unto the LORD shall eat the most holy were for the inner court, and over against things: there shall they lay the most holy the pavement which was for the outer court, things, and the meat-offering, and the sinwas gallery against gallery in three stories. offering, and the trespass-offering; for the 4 And before the chambers was a walk place is holy. of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries "were higher than these, 'than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. 6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the outer court on the fore-part of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 9 And from under these chambers was "the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court. 10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building. с 11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entcreth into them. 13 ¶ Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy 14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people. 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. f 16 He measured the east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about. 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed. 19¶ He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring-reed. 20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. 1 CHAP. XLIII. The returning of the glory of God into the temple. 7 The sin of Israel hindered God's presence. 10 The prophet horteth them to repentance, and observation of the law of the 13 The measures, 18 and the ordinances of the altar. [BEFORE CHRIST 574.] house. AFTERWARD he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: с waters: 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many and the earth shined with his glory. 3 And it was according to the appear chambers, where the priests that approachance of the vision which I saw, even accord b ch. 41. 16. a Or, did eat of these. b Or, and the building consisted of the lower Numbers 18.9, 10. fchapter 44. 19. f Hebrews wind. g chapter 40. 5. h chap. 45,9 and the middlemost. e Or, from the place. d Or, he that brought me. e Or, as he came. CHAP. XLIII. a ch. 10. 19. & 44. 1. & 46. 1. bch. 11. 23. ccb 1.24. Rev. 1. 15& e ch. 1. 4, 28. & 8. 4. 14. 2. & 19. 1,6. d ch. 10. 4. Rev. 18. 1. • Lov. 2. 3, 10. & 6. 14, 17, 25, 29. & 7. 1. & 10. 13, 14. aver. d Lev. 6. 16, 26. & 24. 9. 196 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. Р 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and 'the man stood by me. 7¶And he said unto me, Son of man, "the place of my throne, and "the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, 'and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine г anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 10 ¶ Thou son of man, "show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings-out thereof, and the comings-in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. Or, when I came to prophesy that the city should be destroyed: See ch. 9. 1,5. f So Jer. 1. 10. g ch. 1. 3. & 3. 23. h See ch. 10. 19. & 44. 2. ich. 3. 12, 14. & 8.3. k 1 Kings 8. 10, 11. ch. 44. 4. 1ch. 40. 3 m Ps. 99. 1. n 1 Chron. 28. 2. Ps. 99. 5. o Ex. 29. 45. l's 68, 16, & 132. 14. Joel 3, 17. John 1. 14. 2 Cor. 6. 16. p ch.39. 7. q Lev. 26.30. Jer. I See 2 Kings 16. 14. & 1. 4, 5, 7. ch. 8. 3. & 23, 39. & 44.7. b Or, for there was 16. 18 ordinances of the altar. 12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand-breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 Sof the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. g 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof. 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east. 18 And he said unto me, Son of man, ¶ thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin-offering. 20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin-offering, and he shall burn it in the but a wall between me and them. 8 ver. 7. t ver. 7. u ch. 40. 4. e Or, sum, or, number. x ch. 40. 2 y ch. 40. 5. & 41. 8. d Heb. bosom. e Heb. lip. f Heb. Harel, that is, the mountain of God. g Heb. Ariel, that is, the lion of God. Isai. 29. 1. z See Ex. 20. 26. a Lev. 1. 5. bch. 44. 15 c Ex. 29. 10, 12. Lev. 8. 14, 15. ch. 45. 18, 19. d Ex 29. 14. |