CHAP. XXXIX. 1 God's judgment upon Gog. 8 Israel's victory. 11 Gog's burial in Hamon-gog. 17 The feast of the fowls. 23 Israel having been afflicted for their sins, shall be gather. ed again with eternal favor. HEREFORE, thou son of man, Before 1 or, 587. strike thee with sir Tprophesy against Gog, and say, plagues: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 2 And I will turn thee back, and 1 leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come from 2 the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: 3 And I will strike thy bow out of thy left hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall from thy right hand. 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that are with thee: I will give thee to the ravenous birds of every 3 sort, and to the beasts of the field 4 to be devoured. 5 Thou shalt fall upon 5 the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell 6 carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. 7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them profane my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 2 3 4 8 9 or, draw with a hook Heb. the devour. 5 Heb. the face of the field. 6 or, con fidently. 7 or, or, make 10 That is, The multitude of Gog. a 11 Heb. men uance. 8 T Behold, it is come, and it is done, 12 Heb. saith the Lord GOD; this is the day of build. which I have spoken. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaffs, and the spears, and they shall 8 burn them with fire seven years: earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. 15 And as passengers pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he 12 set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. 16 And also the name of the city shall be 13 Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17 ¶ And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak 14 to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my 15 sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of 16 goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and drink blood till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. 21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward. 23 ¶ And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore I hid my face multi-from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so they all fell by the sword. 13 That is, tude. 14 Heb. to 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall lay waste those that wasted them, and rob those 15 or, that robbed them, saith the Lord God. slaughter. 11 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give to Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the pas-16 Heb. sengers on the east of the sea: and it great goats. shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of 10 Hamon-gog. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be in burying them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God. 24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done to them, and hid my face from them. 25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; 26 After they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses by which they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of the lands of their enemies, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; 28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, 17 who caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them to their own land, and have left none of them there any more. 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XL. 1 The time, manner, and end of the vision. 6 The description of the east-gate, 20 of the north-gate, 24 of the south-gate, 32 of the east-gate, 35 and of the north-gate. 39 Eight tables. 44 The chambers. 48 The porch of the house. the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in the same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 2 In the visions of God he brought me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, 1 by which was as the frame of a city on the south. 3 And he brought me thither, and behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. 4 And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee; for, to the intent that I Before CHRIST, 574. 1 or, upon 2 Heb. whose face was the way to- even to the post of the court around the gate. 15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance to the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits. 16 And there were 4 narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate around, and likewise to the 5 arches: and windows were around 6 inward: and upon each post were palm trees. 17 Then he brought me into the outward court, and lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court around: 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. 19 Then he measured the breadth from the front of the lower gate to the front of the inner court 7 without, a hundred cubits eastward and northward. 20 T And the gate of the outward court s that looked towards the north, he measured its length, and its breadth. 21 And the little chambers of it were might show them to thee art thou brought 3 Heb. limit, three on this side and three on that side; hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. 5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and a hand-breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed: and the hight, one reed. or, bound. 4 Heb. 6 Then he came to the gate 2 which looketh towards the east, and ascended closed. its stairs, and measured the threshhold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshhold of the gate, which was one reed broad. 7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshhold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. 8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. 5 or, galle- and its posts and its 9 arches were after the measure of the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and its 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 towards the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and its arches were before them. 23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate towards the north, and towards the east; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.. 24 ¶ After that he brought me towards the south, and behold a gate towards the south: and he measured its posts and its arches according to these measures. 25 And there were windows in it and 6 or, within. in its arches around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 9 Then he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was in-7 or, from ward. 10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. 11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12 The 3 space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. without. 8 Heb. was. 9 or, galle 13 He measured then the gate from 10 Heb. the roof of one little chamber to the roof breadth. of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door. 14 He made also posts of sixty cubits; 26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and its arches were before them: and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon its posts. 27 And there was a gate in the inner court towards the south: and he measured from gate to gate towards the south a hundred cubits. 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 its little chambers, and its posts, and its arches, according to these measures; and there were windows in it and in its arches around: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30 And the arches around were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits 10 broad. 31 And its arches were towards the louter court; and palm-trees were upon in it and in its arches around: it was 11 or, at the fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cu- step. bits broad. 34 And its arches were towards the outward court; and palm-trees were upon its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight| steps. 35 T And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; 36 Its little chambers, its posts, and its arches, and the windows to it around: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 37 And its posts were towards the outer court; and palm-trees were upon its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps. 38 And the chambers and its entries were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering. 39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay upon it the burntoffering and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering. 40 And at the side without, 11 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, upon which they slew their sacrifices. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt-offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: upon which also they laid the instruments with which they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice. 43 And within were 12 hooks, a hand broad, fastened around: 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 towards the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect towards the north. 2 3 12 or, endirons, or, the two hearth stones. 13 or, ward, nance: or, ordiand so ver. 46. 1 or, entrance. chamber chamber. broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house. 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 the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. 49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps by which they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. CHAP. XLI. The measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple." FTERWARD he brought me to the 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 of it forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then he went inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4 So he measured the length of it twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place. 5 Afterward he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round the house on every side. 6 And the side-chambers were three, 2 one over another, and 3 thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side-chambers around, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house. 7 ¶ And 5 there was an enlarging, and Heb. side a winding about still upward to the sideover side-chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward around the house; therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. or, three and thirty times, or, feet. 45 And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is towards the south, is 4 Heb. be for the priests, the keepers of the 13 charge held. of the house. 46 And the chamber whose prospect is towards the north is for the priests, the 5 Heb. it keepers of the charge of the altar: these was made are the sons of Zadok among the sons of broader, Levi, who come near to the LORD to min-round. ister to him. 47 So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits and went 8 I saw also the hight of the house around: the foundations of the sidechambers 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 width of twenty cubits around the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side-chambers were towards the place that was left, one door towards the north, and another door towards the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits laround. 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end towards the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick around, and its length ninety cubits. Before CHRIST. 574. 13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with its walls, a hun-6 or, several dred cubits long; walks, or, walks with pillars. 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place towards the east, a hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place 7 which was behind it, and its 6 galleries on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the door, 7 ceiled with wood around, 8 and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; 17 To that above the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the wall around within and without, by 9 measure. 18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees, so that a palm-tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 19 So that the face of a man was towards the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion towards the palm-tree on the other side: it was made through all the house around. 20 From the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple. 21 The 10 posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before the LORD. 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 8 Heb. ceiling of wood. or, and the ground to dows. the win 9 Heb. meas. ures. 10 Heb. post. lor, did eat of these. 2 or, and the er and the most. 24 And the doors had two leaves each, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other 3 or, from door. the place. 25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, as were made upon the walls; place, and which was before the building towards the north. 2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors towards the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries 1 were higher than these, 2 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, towards the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length of it 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 3 from under these chambers was 4 the entry on the east side, 5 as one goeth into them from the outer court. 10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court towards 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 towards 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 towards the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall towards the east, as one entereth into them. 13 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers which are before the separate place, they are holy chambers, where the priests that approach to 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. 14 When the priests enter therein, and there were thick planks upon the face 4 or, he that then shall they not go out of the holy 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. CHAP. XLII. 1 The chambers for the priests. 13 Their use 19 The measures of the outward court. brought me. 5 or, as he came. place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments in which 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 towards the gate whose prospect is towards the east, and measured it Touter court, the way towards the HEN he brought me forth into the Heb. wind. around. north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed around. 2 And behold, the glory of the God of 2 or, for Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. between me and them. 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even 3 or, sum, according to the vision that I saw 1 when or, number. I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Kebar; and I fell upon my face. 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate) whose prospect is towards the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6 And I heard him speaking to me out 4 Heb. of the house; and the man stood by me. 7 And he said to 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 lewd deeds, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places. bosom. 5 Heb. lip. Harel, that 8 In their setting of their threshholdi by my threshholds, and their post by my posts, 2 and the wall between me and 6 Heb. them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have con- of God. sumed them in my anger. 9 Now let them put away their lewd deeds, 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 3 pattern. 11 And if they shall be ashamed of all that they have done, show them the form of the house, and the fashion of it, and its goings out, and its comings in, and all is, the mountain 7 Heb. Ariel, that is, the lion of God. its forms, and all its ordinances, and all 8 Heb. fill its forms, and all its laws: and write it their hands. in their sight, that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them. 12 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain, the whole limit of it around 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 a hand-breadth; even the 4 bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by its 5 edge around 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 breadth one cubit. greater settle shall be four cubits, and the 15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from 7 the altar and upward shall be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares of it. 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in its four squares; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit about; and its stairs shall look towards the east. 18 And he said to 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 upon it, and to sprinkle blood upon it. 19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who approach to me, to minister to me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin-offering. 20 And thou shalt take of his blood, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border around: 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 appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. 22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bullock. 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 for a burnt-offering to the LORD. 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare ev ery 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 s consecrate themselves. 27 And when these days have expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and |
