The prince's inheritance.

EZEKIEL.

Vision of the holy waters.

& ch. 44. 3. ver. 2

h Ex. 29. 39. Num. 28. 3.

ing.

Zuch ISL

i Lev. 25. 10.

of the anir,

B. C. 574. LORD, 5 one shall then open him the them four, and it was made with B. C.574.

gate that looketh toward the east, boiling places under the rows round
and he shall prepare his burnt offer- about.
ing and his peace offerings, as he did 24 Then said he unto me, These are
on the sabbath day: then he shall go the places of them that boil, where
forth; and after his going forth one the ministers of the house shall boil o See ver. 20.
shall shut the gate.

the sacrifice of the people.
13 - Thou shalt daily prepare a
burnt offering unto the LORD of a

CHAPTER XLVII.
+ Heb. a son lamb # of the first year without blem- | The vision of the holy waters. 6 The virtue of them.
of his year.

13 The borders of the land. 22 The division of it ish: thou shalt prepare it tewery

by lot.
+ Heb. morn-
ing by murns morning.

14 And thou shalt prepare a meat again unto the door of the
offering for it every morning, the house; and, behold, a waters issued Joel S. 18
sixth part of an ephah, and the third out from under the threshold of the
part of a hin of oil, to temper with house eastward : for the forefront of Res. 22. 1.
the fine flour; a meat offering con- the house stood toward the east, and
tinually by a perpetual ordinance the waters came down from under,
unto the Lord.

from the right side of the house, at
15 Thus shall they prepare the the south side of the altar.
lamb, and the meat offering, and the 2 Then brought he me out of the
oil, every morning for a continual way of the gate northward, and led
burnt offering

me about the way without unto the
16 ( Thus saith the Lord God; If outer gate by the way that looketh
the prince give a gift unto any of his eastward; and, behold, there ran out
sons, the inheritance thereof shall be waters on the right side.
his sons'; it shall be their possession 3 And when the man that had bch. 40. &
by inheritance.

the line in his hand went forth 17 But if he give a gift of his in- eastward, he measured a thousand heritance to one of his servants, then cubits, and he brought me through it shall be his to i the year of liberty ; the waters; the waters were to the + Heb esztett after, it shall return to the prince: ankles. but his inheritance shall be his sons' 4 Again he measured a thousand, for them.

and brought me through the waters; k ch. 45, 8. 18 Moreover k the prince shall not the waters were to the knees. Again

take of the people's inheritance by he measured a thousand, and brought
oppression, to thrust them out of me through ; the waters were to the
their possession ; but he shall give loins.
his sons inheritance out of his own 5 Afterward he measured a thou-

possession ; that my people be not sand; and it was a river that I could
scattered every man from his pos- not pass over: for the waters were
session.

risen, + waters to swim in, a river that + Heb. erom
19 1 After he brought me through could not be passed over.
the entry, which was at the side of 6 ( And he said unto me, Son of
the gate, into the holy chambers of man, hast thou seen this? Then he
the priests, which looked toward the brought me, and caused me to return
north: and, behold, there was a place to the brink of the river.
on the two sides westward.

7 Now when I had returned, behold, 20 Then said he unto me, This is at the + bank of the river were very + Heb. list 12 Chr. 35. 13. the place where the priests shall' boil many trees on the one side and on ever. 12

the trespass offering and the sin offer- the other.
m Lev. 2. 4,5, ing, where they shall mbake the meat 8 Then said he unto me, These wa-

offering ; that they bear them not out ters issue out toward the east coun-
into the outer court, "to sanctify the try, and go down into the li desert, and 101, plain
people.

go into the sea : which being brought 1724.6. 21 Then he brought me forth into forth into the sea, the waters shall be Josh. 3. the outer court, and caused me to healed.

pass by the four corners of the court; 9 And it shall come to pass, that + Heb. a court and, behold, t in every corner of the every thing that liveth, which movin a corner of court there was a court.

eth, whithersoever the rivers shall + Heb tasa 22 In the four corners of the court come, shall live: and there shall be there were courts Ill joined of forty cu- a very great multitude of fish, bebits long and thirty broad: these four cause these waters shall come thitht corners were of one measure.

er: for they shall be healed; and + Heb. cor. 23 And there was a row of building every thing shall live whither the

Rev... 2

7.

och. 44. 19.

riters

a court, and a court in a corner of a court. || Or, made uith chimneye.

The borders of the land.

EZEKIEL.

The portions of the tribes.

ch. 48. 23.

which shall

e ver. 7.

&c.

Job 8. 16.
P. 1. &
Jer. 17. 8.

11 Orfor

bruises and

Rev. 22. 2.

Gen. 48,5. 1 Chr. 5. 1.

1 Or, szpore.

7. & 17. 8. & 28. 3. & 23.

B. C. 574. 10 And it shall come to pass, that shall be unto you as born in the B. C. 574.

the fishers shall stand upon it from country among the children of Is-
En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they rael; they shall have inheritance
shall be a place to spread forth nets; with you among the tribes of Israel.

their fish shall be according to their 23 And it shall come to pass, that
4. Num. 34.6. kinds, as the fish of the great sea, in what tribe the stranger sojourn-
Jush. 23. 4.
exceeding many.

eth, there shall ye give him his in-
11 But the miry places thereof and heritance, saith the Lord God.
1 Or, and that the marshes thereof ishall not be
be healed. healed; they shall be given to salt.

CHAPTER XLVIII.
12 And by the river upon the bank The portions of the twelre tribes. 8 The portion for

the sanctuary; 15 for the city and suburbs; 21 and
thereof, on this side and on that side,

for the prince. 30° The dimensions and gates of the + Heb, shall # shall grow all trees for meat,' whose

city.
leaf shall not fade, neither shall the row these are the names of the
fruit thereof be consumed: it shall

a ch. 47. 15, i Or, princi- bring forth ll new fruit according to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as

his months, because their waters they one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan,
issued out of the sanctuary: and the the border of Damascus northward, to
fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the coast of Hamath; for these are his
the leaf thereof ll for medicine. sides east and west; ta portion for Dan. + Heb.one
13 | Thus saith the Lord God; 2 And by the border of Dan, from

portion.
This shall be the border, whereby the east side unto the west side, a
ye shall inherit the land according portion for Asher.

to the twelve tribes of Israel : b Jo- 3 And by the border of Asher, from
ch. 13. 4. 5.
seph shall have two portions.

the east side even unto the west side,
14 And ye shall inherit it, one as a portion for Naphtali.
well as another: concerning the which 4 And by the border of Naphtali,

I 'lifted up mine hand to give it from the east side unto the west side,
Gen 127;& unto your fathers: and this land shall a portion for Manasseh.

kfall unto you for inheritance. 5 And by the border of Manasseh,
ch 2.5,

15 And this shall be the border of from the east side unto the west side,
the land toward the north side, from a portion for Ephraim.
the great sea, 'the way of Hethlon, 6 And by the border of Ephraim,
as men go to m Zedad;

from the east side even unto the west
16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, side, a portion for Reuben.
which is between the border of Da- 7 And by the border of Reuben,

mascus and the border of Hamath ; from the east side unto the west side,
Or, The | Hazar-hatticon, which is by the a portion for Judah.
Lage.
coast of Hauran.

8 [ And by the border of Judah, 17 And the border from the sea from the east side unto the west side, p Num. 34. 9. shall be p Hazar-enan, the border of shall be the offering which ye shall 1 ch. 45. 1-6.

Damascus, and the north northward, offer of five and twenty thousand reeds
and the border of Hamath. And this in breadth, and in length as one of
is the north side.

the other parts, from the east side
18 And the east side ye shall measure unto the west side: and the sanctuary
+ from Hauran, and from Damascus, shall be in the midst of it.
and from Gilead, and from the land 9 The oblation that ye shall offer
of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the Lord shall be of five and

unto the east sea. And this is the twenty thousand in length, and of ten 9 Nam. 29. 13. east side.

thousand in breadth. Daul S2. 51. 19 And the south side southward, 10 And for them, even for the priests,

from Tamar even to "the waters of shall be this holy oblation; toward Or, Meribah. strife in Kadesh, the river to the the north five and twenty thousand Or, villey.

great sea. And this is the south side in length, and toward the west ten 107, Lorcard Il southward.

thousand in breadth, and toward the 20 The west side also shall be the east ten thousand in breadth, and togreat sea from the border, till a man ward the south five and twenty thoucome over against Hamath. This is sand in length: and the sanctuary the west side.

of the LORD shall be in the midst 21 So shall ye divide this land unto thereof. you according to the tribes of Israel. 11 ell It shall be for the priests that 10r. The

sanctified 22 And it shall come to pass, that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok ; Sea Eph. 3.

portion shall 6. Rev. 7.9, ye shall divide it by lot for an inher- which have kept my charge, which

priests. itance unto you, and to the strangers went not astray when the children of

| Or, wonard, that sojourn among you, which shall Israel went astray, as the Levites beget children among you: "and they went astray.

ch. 48. 2. Ieb. 43. I.

Num, 34, 8, s Num. 34. 8.

2 Sam. 8. &.

midte vil

eh. 48.1.

+ 4.b. from between,

Pa 81. 7. ch. 18. 28.

Lev. 27. 10, 28, 33.

I ch. 45. 6.

6 ch. 42. 20.

The portion for the city.

EZEKIEL

The twelve gates of the city. B. C. 574. 12 And this oblation of the land that the prince: and it shall be the holy B. C. 574.

is offered shall be unto them a thing oblation; "and the sanctuary of the
most holy by the border of the Le-house shall be in the midst thereof. I ver. 8, 10.
vites.

22 Moreover, from the possession of
13 And over against the border of the Levites, and from the possession
the priests, the Levites shall have five of the city, being in the midst of that
and twenty thousand in length, and which is the prince's, between the
ten thousand in breadth: all the length border of Judah and the border of
shall be five and twenty thousand, and Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
the breadth ten thousand.

23 As for the rest of the tribes, from • Ex. 22. 29. 14 • And they shall not sell of it, the east side unto the west side, Benneither exchange, nor alienate the jamin shall have ta portion.

+ Heb. one

portion.
firstfruits of the land: for it is holy 24 And by the border of Benjamin,
unto the Lord.

from the east side unto the west side,
15 ['And the five thousand, that are Simeon shall have a portion.
left in the breadth over against the 25 And by the border of Simeon,
five and twenty thousand, shall be 5 a from the east side unto the west side,
profane place for the city, for dwell- | Issachar a portion.
ing, and for suburbs; and the city 26 And by the border of Issachar,
shall be in the midst thereof.

from the east side unto the west side,
16 And these shall be the measures Zebulun a portion.
thereof; the north side four thousand 27 And by the border of Zebulun,
and five hundred, and the south side from the east side unto the west side,
four thousand and five hundred, and Gad a portion.
on the east side four thousand and five 28 And by the border of Gad, at
hundred, and the west side four thou- the south side southward, the border
sand and five hundred.

shall be even from Tamar unto 'the 1ch. 47.19.
17 And the suburbs of the city shall waters of t strife in Kadesh, and to Heb. Veri
be toward the north two hundred and the river toward the great sea.
fifty, and toward the south two hun- 29 m 'This is the land which ye shall nch. 47. 14,
dred and fifty, and toward the east divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel
two hundred and fifty, and toward for inheritance, and these are their
the west two hundred and fifty. portions, saith the Lord God.

18 And the residue in length over 30 1 And these are the goings out of
against the oblation of the holy por- the city on the north side, four thou-
tion shall be ten thousand eastward, sand and five hundred measures.
and ten thousand westward : and it 31 "And the gates of the city shall Rev, 21. 12
shall be over against the oblation of be after the names of the tribes of
the holy portion; and the increase Israel : three gates northward; one
thereof shall be for food unto them gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah,
that serve the city.

one gate of Levi.
19" And they that serve the city shall 32 And at the east side four thou-
serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. / sand and five hundred : and three

20 All the oblation shall be five and gates ; and one gate of Joseph, one
twenty thousand by five and twenty gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
thousand : ye shall offer the holy ob- 33 And at the south side four thou-
lation foursquare, with the possession sand and five hundred measures : and
of the city.

three gates; one gate of Simeon, one
21 Ti And the residue shall be for the gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
prince, on the one side and on the 34 At the west side four thousand Jer. 38 K
other of the holy oblation, and of the and five hundred, with their three poleti 27.
possession of the city, over against gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of
the five and twenty thousand of the Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
oblation toward the east border, and 35 It was round about eighteen thou- + Heb. Jebs-
westward over against the five and sand measures : "and the name of the
twenty thousand toward the vest city from that day shall be, Pt The
border, over against the portions for Lord is there.

Judg. 6. 24

bas-uder

21, 22

1 ch, 45, 6.

ich. 45. 7.

Zech. 2. le.
Rev. 21. 3.

pah-s.

Ex 17. 15.

778

+ Heb. sadder

continuance?

1.2 Chr. 36.

stercard

1 1 Gen. 10. 10.

& 11. 2. Is.

il 11. Zech. 15.11.

pulse. + Heb. that de

• Foretold,

17. 18. ls.

See Lev. 24 1), 20.

B. C.
CHAPTER I.

10 And the prince of the eunuchs B. C. about 607.

said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the about 606. Jehoinkim's captivity. 3 Daniel and three others selected to be taught the learning of the Chaldeans. 8 king, who hath appointed your meat They refuse to eat the king's meal. 17 Their great and your drink : for why should he

see your faces + worse liking than the IN the third year of the reign of children which are of your ll sort? | Or, term, or.

IN
* 2 Kings 24. Jehoiakim king of Judah a came then shall ye make me endanger my

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon un- head to the king.
to Jerusalem, and besieged it.

11 Then said Daniel to 1 Melzar, 1. Or, The about 606. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim whom the prince of the eunuchs had

king of Judah into his hand, with set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, Jer. 27. 19, part of the vessels of the house of and Azariah,

God, which he carried 'into the land 12 Prove thy servants, I beseech
of Shinar to the house of his god; thee, ten days; and let them give us

d and he brought the vessels into the pulse + to eat, and water to drink. + Heb. of + 2 Chr. 36. 7. treasure-house of his god.

13 Then let our countenances be 3 [ And the king spake unto Ash- looked upon before thee, and the may eat, c. penaz the master of his eunuchs, that countenance of the children that eat

he should bring * certain of the chil- of the portion of the king's meat: and 2 Kings 20.

dren of Israel, and of the king's seed, as thou seest, deal with thy serv-
and of the princes ;

ants.
4 Children in whom was no blem- 14 So he consented to them in this
ish, but well favoured, and skilful in matter, and proved them ten days.
all wisdom, and cunning in knowl- 15 And at the end of ten days their
edge, and understanding science, and countenances appeared fairer and fat-

such as had ability in them to stand ter in flesh than all the children which ! Acts 7. 22. in the king's palace, and 'whom they did eat the portion of the king's meat.

might teach the learning and the 16 Thus Melzar took away the por-
tongue of the Chaldeans.

tion of their meat, and the wine that
5 And the king appointed them a they should drink; and gave them
daily provision of the king's meat, pulse.
and of the wine which he drank : so 17 [ As for these four children, m1 Kings 3.
nourishing them three years, that at mGod gave them knowledge and

5, 17. the end thereof they might 8stand skill in all learning and wisdom: and Acts 7. 22.

before the king. 1 Kings 10.8.

li Daniel had understanding in all 10r, he made 6 Now among these were of the visions and dreams. children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, 18 Now at the end of the days that 603. Mishael, and Azariah :

the king had said he should bring them Num. 12. 6. 1 Gen. 41. 45. 7 Unto whom the prince of the in, then the prince of the eunuchs

ch, 5. 11, 12, 2 Kiags 24

eunuchs gave names : for he gave brought them in before Nebuchad- 14. & 10. 1. id. 4. &. & 5. unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; nezzar.

and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and 19 And the king communed with
to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Aza- them; and among them all was found
riah, of Abed-nego.

none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, p Gen. 41. 46. 81 But Daniel purposed in his heart and Azariah: therefore Pstood they

9 1 Kings 10.
that he would not defile himself" with before the king.
the portion of the king's meat, nor 20 9 And in all matters of + wisdom + Heb. wis.
with the wine which he drank: there- and understanding, that the king in- derstanding.
fore he requested of the prince of the quired of them, he found them ten
eunuchs that he might not defile him- times better than all the magicians
self.

and astrologers that were in all his
9 Now' God had brought Daniel into realm.
favour and tender love with the prince 21' And Daniel continued even unto
of the eunuchs.

the first year of king Cyrus.

12. James 1.

Heb. the arin, of his drink & ver. 19. 1 (kr. 41. 46.

Danic under stand

2 Chr. 26. 5.

17.

Ver. 5.

1.

Deut. 32. 38.

Ez. 4. 13. - Hoá 2, 3,

dom of un

1 See Gen. 39.

1 P. 108. 46. Prov. 16. 7.

rch. 6. 28. & 10.1.

Nebuchadnezzar's decree.

DANIEL

Daniel stayeth the decree.

marshal

tioncy, or,

a Gen. 41. 8.

ch. 4. 5. b Esth. 6. 1.

ch. 6. 18. c Gen, 41.8. Ex. 7. 11. ch. 5. 7.

wen, Get 37. 36.

d 1 Kings 1. 31. ch. 3. 9. & 5. 10.& 6.6, 21.

e 2 Kings 10. 27. Ezra 6. 11. ch. 3. 29.

destroy

ich. 5. 16.

115. 18.

B. C. 603.

B. C. 603. CHAPTER II.

manded to destroy all the wise men

of Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar, forgetting his dream, requireth his 13 And the decree went forth that
tise men to shero it. 10 They being unable are
condemned to die. 14 Daniel obtaineth some respite the wise men should be slain ; and
19 The dream is rerealed to him.

20: His thanks they sought Daniel and his fellows
giring. 24 He is brought before the king. 31 The
dreum. 36 Ils interpretation. 46 Daniel's promo-

to be slain.
tion.
14 | Then Daniel + answered with + Chald. re-

turned A

reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebu-at captain of the king's guard, which Or, chief chadnezzar dreamed dreams, a where was gone forth to slay the wise men

+ Chald. ebrief with his spirit was troubled, and this of Babylon :

of the ezers sleep brake from him.

15 He answered and said to Arioch

slaughter.
2 . Then the king commanded to call the king's captain, Why is the decree
the magicians, and the astrologers, so hasty from the king ? Then Arioch
and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, made the thing known to Daniel.
for to shew the king his dreams. So 16 Then Daniel went in, and desired
they came and stood before the king of the king that he would give him

3 And the king said unto them, I time, and that he would shew the
have dreamed a dream, and my spirit king the interpretation.
was troubled to know the dream. 17 Then Daniel went to his house,

4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the and made the thing known to Hana-
king in Syriac, "O king, live for ever: niah, Mishael, and Azariah, his com-
tell thy servants the dream, and we panions :
will shew the interpretation.

18 i That they would desire mercies Matt. 18, 19, 5 The king answered and said to the tof the God of heaven concerning this Chald. ins Chaldeans, The thing is gone from secret ; that Daniel and his fellows before and

I Or, tảa, hry me: if ye will not make known unto should not perish with the rest of the me the dream, with the interpretation wise men of Babylon.

Danica + Chald. made thereof, ye shall be et cut in pieces, 19 | Then was the secret revealed pieces.

and your houses shall be made a unto Daniel "in a night vision. Then Nam. 126
dunghill.
Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Job 53, 15, 16. 6 ' But if ye shew the dream, and 20 Daniel answered and said, 'Bless-1 Ps. 113. 2. &

the interpretation thereof, ye shall re-ed be the name of God for ever and 1 Or, fee, chceive of me gifts and rewards and ever: m for wisdom and night are

great honour: therefore shew me the his :
dream, and the interpretation thereof. 21 And he changeth " the times and 21 Chr.9.2.

7 They answered again and said, Let the seasons : "he removeth kings, and
the king tell his servants the dream, setteth up kings : Phe giveth wisdom
and we will shew the interpretation unto the wise, and knowledge to them poby.
of it.

that know understanding:
8 The king answered and said, I 22 He revealeth the deep and se-
+ Chald. buy, know of certainty that ye would + gain cret things : "he knoweth what is in
Eph. 5. 16.

the time, because ye see the thing the darkness, and the light dwelleth
is gone from me.

with him.
9 But if ye will not make known 23 .I thank thee, and praise thee,
unto me the dream, 5 there is but one O thou God of my fathers, who hast.ch. s. 11, 14.
decree for you: for ye have prepared given me wisdom and might, and
lying and corrupt words to speak hast made known unto me now what
before me, till the time be changed: we desired of thee: for thou hast i ver. 18
therefore tell me the dream, and I now made known unto us the king's
shall know that ye can shew me the matter.
interpretation thereof.

24 | Therefore Daniel went in unto
101 The Chaldeans answered before Arioch, whom the king had ordained
the king, and said, There is not a man to destroy the wise men of Babylon:
upon the earth that can shew the he went and said thus unto him ;
king's matter: therefore there is no Destroy not the wise men of Bab-
king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such ylon: bring me in before the king,
things at any magician, or astrologer, and I will shew unto the king the
or Chaldean.

interpretation.
11 And it is a rare thing that the 25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel
king requireth, and there is none before the king in haste, and said

other that can shew it before the thus unto him, † I have found a man + Chald. That b ver. 28. ch. king, "except the gods, whose dwell of the 4 captives of Judah, that will

I hare found

+ Chald, c. ing is not with flesh.

make known unto the king the in12 For this cause the king was terpretation.

captiuity of

Jedah. angry and very furious, and com- 26 The king answered and said to

m Jer. 32. 19

5. 17. ver. 48.

Esth 1.15 ch. 7. 25. & 11. 6.

Jer. 27. 5. ch 1 17. P James 1.5 9 Job 12.24 Ps. 3. 14. ver. 28. 29 Ps. 1911. 12. Heb.

13.

& Esth. 4. 11.

James L. 17.

5. 11.

dren of the