The chambers of the temple.

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ach. 40. 16. ver. 16.

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, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

26 And there were "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 thick planks.

CHAPTER XLII.

The chambers in the court of the temple. 13 Some of

them for the priests. 15 The measures of the out-
wurd court.

Then me forth int
THEN he brought me forth into

the north and he brought me into ach. 41. 12, 15. the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. 2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

ch. 41. 16.

1 Or, did eat
of these.

Or, and the braiding consted of the lower and the middleI met.

1 Or, from the place. Or, he that brought me. 1 Or, as he tame.

ver. 4.

4 And before the chambers was a walk 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 forepart 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 a 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.

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

The measures of the court.

all their goings out were both accord- B. C. 574. ing 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 entereth into them.

13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and "the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

d

Lev. 6. 16,

26. & 24. 9.

Lev. 2. 3, 10.

& 6. 14, 17, 25, 29. & 7. 1. & 10. 13, 14. Num. 18. 9,

10.

14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy ch. 44. 19. 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. 16 He measured the east side with + Heb. wind. 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.

CHAPTER XLIII.

The return of God's glory to the temple. 7 His promise to dwell there on condition of his people's repentance and future obedience. 13 The altar of burnt offerings, 18 and the ordinances thereof.

AFTERWARD he brought me to

a

the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:

ch. 40. 5. h ch. 45. 2.

a ch. 10. 19. & 44. 1. & 46. 1.

b ch. 11. 23. e ch. 1. 24. Rev. 1. 15. & 14. 2. & 19. 1, 6.

d ch. 10. 4. Rev. 13. 1.

e ch. 1. 4, 28. & 8. 4.

Return of God's glory.

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Or, when I came to

prophesy that the city should be destroyed. See ch. 9. 1, 5.

1 So Jer. 1. 10.

ch. 1. 3. & 3. 23.

4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; i ch. 3. 12, 14. and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

h See ch. 10,

19. & 44. 2.

& 8.3. k1 Kings 8. 10, 11. ch. 44. 4.

1 ch. 40, 3.

k

6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. 7

n

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 1. 14. 2 Cor. my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor I See 2 Kings their high places. by the carcasses of their kings in

6. 16.

p ch. 39. 7.

q Lev. 26. 30.

Jer. 16. 18.

16. 14. & 21. 4, 5, 7. ch. 8. 3. & 23, 39. & 41. 7.

Or, for there

was but a wall between

me and them.

s ver. 7. t ver. 7.

u ch. 40. 4.

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 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, "shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the

Ordinances of the altar.

14 And from the bottom upon the B. C. 574. 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 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

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.

23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

e Heb. 13. 11.

f Lev. 2. IS.

96. Lev. 8. $5.

25 € Seven days shalt thou prepare & Ex. 29. $5. every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.

h

+ Heb. All their hands. Ex. 29. 24.

27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth Lev. 9. 1. day, and so forward, the priests shall

The priests reproved.

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1 Or, thank ferings.

i Job 42. 8. ch. 20. 40, 41. Rom.

12. 1. 1 Pet. 2.5.

ach. 43. 1.

ch. 43. 4.

<Gen. 31. 54. 1 Cor. 10. 18. 4 ch. 46. 2, 8.

e ch. 3. 23. & £3.5.

fch. 1. 28.

sch. 40. 4. * Heb. set thine heart.

ch. 2. 5.

eh. 45. 9. | Pet. 4. 3. ch. 43. 8. ver. 9. Acts 21. 2 + Heb. chilCrea of a stranger.

1 Lev. 22, 25. Lev. 26. 41. Deut. 10. 16. Acts 7.51. Lev. 21. 6, 8, 17, 21.

Lev. 3. 16. & 17. 11

way

4 ¶ Then brought he me the of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: 'and I fell upon my face. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, † mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.

6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary'strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer "my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set Or, ward, or, keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

ordinance.

And so ver.

14, 16, &
ch. 40. 45.

P Lev. 22. 2, &c.

1 ver. 7.

r See 2 Kings 23. 8, &c.

ch. 40. 11.

9 Thus saith the Lord GoD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

10 And the Levites that are gone 2 Chr. 29. 4,5. away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

Ordinances for them.

The priests' possession.

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+ Heb. thrust forth.

+ Heb. from a priest.

o Lev. 21. 7, 13, 14.

p Lev. 10. 10,

11. ch. 22. 26.

Mal. 2. 7.

q Deut. 17. 8,

wives a widow, nor her that is put away but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

P

23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall &c. 2 Chr. 19. stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

8, 10.

r See ch. 22. 26.

Lev. 21. 1,

&C.

t Num. 6. 10. & 19. 11, &c.

u ver. 17.

x Lev. 4. 3.

y Num. 18. 20. Deut. 10. 9. & 18. 1, 2. Josh. 13. 14, 33.

z Lev. 6. 18, 29. & 7. 6.

a Lev. 27. 21, 28. compared with Num. 18. 14.

Il Or, devoted.

|| Or, chief. b Ex. 13. 2. & 22. 29, 30. & 23. 19. Num. 3. 13. & 18. 12, 13.

25 And they shall come at no 'dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, "unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, The shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.

28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye Num. 15. 20. shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

Neh. 10. 37.

d Prov. 3, 9, 10. Mal. 3. 10.

e Ex. 22. 31. Lev. 22.8.

+ Heb. when ye cause the

land to fall.

a ch. 47. 22. + Heb, holiness.

b ch.48. 8.

c ch. 42. 20.

Or, void places.

The land for the prince.

d ch. 43. 10.

48. 10, &c.

thousand, and the breadth of ten thou- B. C. 574. sand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 4 The holy portion of the lande ver. 1. ch. shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 And the five and twenty thou-fch. 48. 15. sand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

6And ye shall appoint the pos-h ch. 48. 15. session of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

7 And a portion shall be for the ich. 48. 21. prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.

9 T Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let 1 eh. 44. 6. it suffice you, O princes of Israel : remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith + Heb. epul the Lord God.

10 Ye shall have just " balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a

vide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, a holy portion of the land the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. 2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.

3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty

after the homer.

12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley:

14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer:

Ordinances for the prince

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Or, kid.

1 Or, thank Herings.

+ Heb. shall se for. ! Or, with.

› Lev. 1. 4.

1 Or, thank Cerings.

Lev 16. 16.

tch. 45. 20.

Lev. 4. 27.

Ex. 12. 18, Lev. 23, 5, 6.

& 28. 16, 17. Deut. 16. 1,

17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the "peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

21 In the first month, in the fourNim 9.2.3. teenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land "a bullock for a sin offering.

- Lev. 4. 14.

* Lev. 23. 8.

See Num. 29. 15, 22, 30.

& 29, 5, 11,

16, 19, &c. Ich. 46. 5, 7.

* Lev. 23. 34. VIE 29.12.

23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.

25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven Deut. 16. 15 days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

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ver. 8.

2 And the prince shall enter by a ch. 44. 3. the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

4 And the burnt offering that the bch. 45. 17. prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

5 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.

7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

9 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

e Ex. 23. 1417. Deut. 16. 16.

people. 16 An order for the prince's inheritance. 19 The courts for boiling and baking.

THUS

an ephah.

12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or