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Christ's kingdom promised.

EZEKIEL. The army and malice of Gog.

9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto transgressions: but I will save them out of the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to all their dwelling-places, wherein they the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come have sinned, and will cleanse them: so from the four winds, O breath, and breathe shall they be my people, and I will be upon these slain, that they may live. their God.

10 So I prophesied as he commanded 24 And David my servant shall be king me, and the breath came into them, and over them; and they all shall have one they lived, and stood up upon their feet, shepherd: they shall also walk in my an exceeding great army. judgments, and observe my statutes, and

11 T Then he said unto me, Son of man, do them. these bones are the whole house of Israel: 25 And they shall dwell in the land that behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and I have given unto Jacob my servant, whereour hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. in your fathers have dwelt, and they shall 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto dwell therein, even they, and their chil them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, dren, and their children's children for O my people, I will open your graves, and ever: and my servant David shall be their cause you to come up out of your graves, prince for ever. and bring you into the land of Israel.

26 Moreover I will make a covenant of 13 Andye shall know that I am the LORD, peace with them; it shall be an everlastwhen I have opened your graves, O my peo-ing covenant with them: and I will place ple, and brought you up out of your graves, them, and multiply them, and will set my 14 And shall put my Spirit in you, and sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. ye shall live, and I shall place you in your 27 My tabernacle also shall be with own land: then shall ye know that I the them: yea, I will be their God, and they LORD, have spoken it, and performed it, shall be my people. saith the LORD.

28 And the heathen shall know that I

15 ¶ The word of the LORD came again the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my unto me, saying, sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

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CHAP. XXXVIII.

ND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against

17 And join them one to another into him, one stick; and they shall become one in 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; thine hand. Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the 18 ¶ And when the children of thy peo-chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: ple shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou 4 And I will turn thee back, and put not shew us what thou meanest by these? hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord forth, and all thine army, horses and horseGOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Jo- men, all of them clothed with all sorts of seph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, armour, even a great company with buckand the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will lers and shields, all of them handling put them with him, even with the stick of swords: Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest] 6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house shall be in thine hand before their eyes. of Togarmah of the north quarters, and 21 And say unto them. Thus saith the all his bands: and many people with thee. Lord God; Behold, I will take the chil- 7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for dren of Israel from among the heathen, thyself, thou, and all thy company that whither they be gone, and will gather are assembled unto thee, and be thou a them on every side, and bring them into guard unto them. their own land:

8 T After many days thou shalt be visit22 And I will make them one nation in ed: in the latter years thou shalt come the land upon the mountains of Israel; and into the land that is brought back from the one king shall be king to them all and sword, and is gathered out of many peothey shall be no more two nations, neither ple, against the mountains of Israel, which shall they be divided into two kingdoms have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall

any more at all:

23 Neither shall they defile themselves dwell safely all of them." any more with their idols, nor with their 9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a detestable things, nor with any of their storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover

God's judgment against Gog. CHAP. XXXIX.

The victory of Israel.

the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many upon him, and upon his bands, and upon people with thee. the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

10 Thus saith the Lord GoD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

CHAP. XXXIX.

23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the eyes of many nations, and they shall the land of unwalled villages; I will go to know that I am the LORD. them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and havingHEREFORE, thou son of man, proneither bars nor gates, phesy against Gog, and say, Thus 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against to turn thine hand upon the desolate places thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech that are now inhabited, and upon the peo- and Tubal: ple that are gathered out of the nations, 2 And I will turn thee back, and leave which have gotten cattle and goods, that but the sixth part of thee, and will cause dwell in the midst of the land. thee to come up from the north parts, and 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the mer-will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: chants of Tarshish, with all the young lions 3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come left hand, and will cause thine arrows to to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy fall out of thy right hand.

company to take a prey? to carry away 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of silver and gold, to take away cattle and Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the goods, to take a great spoil? people that is with thee: I will give thee 14 T Therefore, son of man, prophesy unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord to the beasts of the field, to be devoured. GOD; In that day when my people of Israel 5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 15 And thou shalt come from thy place 6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and out of the north parts, thou, and many peo- among them that dwell carelessly in the ple with thee, all of them riding upon horses, isles: and they shall know that I am the a great company, and a mighty army: LORD.

16 And thou shalt come up against my 7 So will I make my holy name known people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; in the midst of my people Israel; and I will it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring not let them pollute my holy name any thee against my land, that the heathen may more: and the heathen shall know that I know me, when I shall be sanctified in am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 8 ¶ Behold, it is come, and it is done, 17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou saith the Lord God; this is the day he of whom I have spoken in old time by whereof I have spoken. my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years, that would bring thee against them?

18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

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 handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

10 So that they shall take no wood out 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of of the field, neither cut down any out of the my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that forests; for they shall burn the weapons day there shall be a great shaking in the with fire: and they shall spoil those that land of Israel; spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the 11 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that field, and all creeping things that creep day, that I will give unto Gog a place there upon the earth, and all the men that are of graves in Israel, the valley of the pasupon the face of the earth, shall shake at my sengers on the east of the sea: and it shall presence, and the mountains shall be thrown stop the noses of the passengers: and there down, and the steep places shall fall, and shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: every wall shall fall to the ground. and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.

21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GoD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

22 And I will plead against him with 13 Yea, all the people of the land shall pestilence and with blood; and I will rain bury them: and it shall be to them a renown

The feast of the fowls.

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the day that I shall be glorified, saith the have gathered them unto their own land,
Of Ezekiel's vision.
Lord God.
14 And they shall sever out men of con-
and have left none of them any more there.
tinual employment, passing through the from them: for I have poured out my Spi-
29 Neither will I hide my face any more
land to bury with the passengers those that rit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord
remain upon the face of the earth, to GOD.
cleanse it after the end of seven months
shall they search.

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CHAP. XL.

N the five and twentieth year of our cap tivity, in the beginning of the year, in

15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seethaman's bone, then the tenth day of the month, in the fourshall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers teenth year after that the city was smitten, have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. in the self-same day the hand of the LORD 16 And also the name of the city shall be was upon me, and brought me thither. Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17 And, thou son of man, thus saith into the land of Israel, and set me upon a 2 In the visions of God brought he me the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered very high mountain, by which was as the fowl, and to every beast of the field, As-frame of a city on the south. semble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my 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 goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

hold, there was a man, whose appearance 3 And he brought me thither, and bewas like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine 4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, ears, and set thine heart upon all that ! 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and might shew them unto thee art thou brought shall shew thee; for to the intent that I drink blood till ye be drunken, of my hither: declare all that thou seest to the sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. house of Israel.

20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table

with horses and chariots, with mighty men, the house round about, and in the man's 5 And behold a wall on the outside of and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. hand a measuring reed of six cubits long 21 And I will set my glory among the by the cubit and a hand-breadth: so he heathen, and all the heathen shall see my measured the breadth of the building, one judgment that I have executed, and my reed: and the height, one reed. hand that I have laid upon them.

22. So the house of Israel shall know that looketh toward the east, and went up the 6 Then came he unto the gate which I am the LORD their God from that day stairs thereof, and measured the threshold and forward. 23 ¶ And the heathen shall know that the other threshold of the gate, which was of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the house of Israel went into captivity for one reed broad. their iniquity because they trespassed

against me, therefore hid I my face from long, and one reed broad; and between 7 And every little chamber was one reed them, and gave them into the hand of their the little chambers were five cubits: and enemies so fell they all by the sword. 24 According to their uncleanness and the gate within was one reed. the threshold of the gate by the porch of according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cu9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, bits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

10 And the little chambers of the gate 26 After that they have borne their shame, on that side; they three were of one meaeastward were three on this side, and three and all their trespasses whereby they have sure and the posts had one measure on trespassed against me, when they dwelt this side and on that side. safely in their land, and none made them afraid. 11 And he measured the breadth of the 27 When I have brought them again length of the gate, thirteen cubits. entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations

28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but

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chambers was one cubit on this side, and 12 The space also before the little the little chambers were six cubits on this the space was one cubit on that side: and side, and six cubits on that side.

13 He measured then the gate from the

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CHAP. XL. of the temple. roof of one little chamber to the roof of 29 And the little chambers thereof, and another; the breadth was five and twenty the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, cubits, door against door. according to these measures: and there 14 He made also posts of threescore were windows in it and in the arches cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.

16 And there were narrow windows to 31 And the arches thereof were toward the little chambers, and to their posts within the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the gate round about, and likewise to the the posts thereof: and the going up to it arches: and windows were round about in-had eight steps.

ward: and upon each post were palm-trees. 32 And he brought me into the inner 17 Then brought he me into the outward court towards the east: and he measured court, and lo, there were chambers, and a the gate according to these measures. pavement made for the court round about: 33 And the little chambers thereof, and thirty chambers were upon the pavement. the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, 18 And the pavement by the side of the were according to these measures: and there gates over against the length of the gates were windows therein and in the arches was the lower pavement. thereof round about: it was fifty cubits

19 Then he measured the breadth from long, and five and twenty cubits broad. the forefront of the lower gate unto the 34 And the arches thereof were toward forefront of the inner court without, a the outward court; and palm-trees were hundred cubits eastward and northward. upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on 20 And the gate of the outward court that side: and the going up to it had eight that looked toward the north, he measured steps.

the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. 35 T And he brought me to the north 21 And the little chambers thereof were gate, and measured it according to these three on this side and three on that side; measures;

and the posts thereof and the arches thereof 36 The little chambers thereof, the posts were after the measure of the first gate: thereof, and the arches thereof, and the the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the windows to it round about: the length was breadth five and twenty cubits. fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty

22 And their windows, and their arches, cubits. and their palm-trees, were after the mea- 37 And the posts thereof were towards sure of the gate that looketh toward the the outer court; and palm-trees were upon east: and they went up unto it by seven the posts thereof, on this side, and on that steps; and the arches thereof were before side: and the going up to it had eight steps. them. 38 And the chambers, and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering.

23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate towards the north, and towards the east: and he measured 39 T And in the porch of the gate were from gate to gate a hundred cubits. two tables on this side, and two tables on 24 After that he brought me toward that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering, the south, and behold a gate toward the and the sin-offering, and the trespasssouth: and he measured the posts thereof offering. and the arches thereof according to these

measures.

40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two 25 And there were windows in it and in tables; and on the other side, which was the arches thereof round about, like those at the porch of the gate, were two tables. windows: the length was fifty cubits, and 41 Four tables were on this side, 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.

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 a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and 27 And there was a gate in the inner one cubit high: whereupon also they laid court toward the south: and he measured the instruments wherewith they slew the from gate to gate toward the south a burnt-offering and the sacrifice.

hundred cubits.

43 And within were hooks, a hand 28 And he brought me to the inner court broad, fastened round about: and upon the by the south gate: and he measured the tables was the flesh of the offering. south gate according to these measures; 44 T And without the inner gate were

Of the parts, chambers, and

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ornaments of the temple. the chambers of the singers in the inner house; therefore the breadth of the house court, which was at the side of the north was still upward, and so increased from the gate; and their prospect was toward the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. south: one at the side of the east-gate 8 I saw also the height of the house round having the prospect toward the north. about: the foundations of the side-cham45 And he said unto me, This chamber, bers were a full reed of six great cubits. whose prospect is toward the south, is for 9 The thickness of the wall, which was the priests the keepers of the charge of the for the side-chamber without, was five cubouse. bits: and that which was left was the place

46 And the chamber whose prospect is of the side-chambers that were within. toward the north is for the priests, the 10 And between the chambers was the keepers of the charge of the altar: these wideness of twenty cubits round about the are the sons of Zadok among the sons of house on every side.

Levi, which come near to the LORD to 11 And the doors of the side-chambers minister unto him. were toward the place that was left, one

47 So he measured the court, a hun-door toward the north, and another door dred cubits long, and a hundred cubits toward the south: and the breadth of the broad, four-square; and the altar that was place that was left was five cubits round before the house. about.

48 ¶And he brought me to the porch of 12 Now the building that was before the the house, and measured each post of the separate place at the end towards the west porch, five cubits on this side, and five was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of cubits on that side: and the breadth of the the building was five cubits thick round gate was three cubits on this side, and about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. three cubits on that side. 13 Sohe measured the house, an hundred

49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits long; and the separate place, and cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and the building, with the walls thereof, an he brought me by the steps whereby they hundred cubits long;

went up to it: and there were pillars by 14 Also the breadth of the face of the the posts, one on this side, and another on house, and of the separate place toward that side. the east, a hundred cubits.

CHAP. XLI.

15 And he measured the length of the

AFTERWARD be brought me to the building over against the separate place temple, and measured the posts, six which was behind it, and the galleries cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits thereof on the one side and on the other broad on the other side, which was the side, a hundred cubits, with the inner breadth of the tabernacle. temple, and the porches of the court; 2 And the breadth of the door was ten 16 The door posts, and the narrow cubits; and the sides of the door were five windows, and the galleries round about on cubits on the one side, and five cubits on their three stories, over against the door, the other side: and he measured the length ceiled with wood round about, and from thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, the ground up to the windows, and the twenty cubits. windows were covered;

3 Then went he inward, and measured 17 To that above the door, even unto the post of the door, two cubits; and the the inner house, and without, and by all door, six cubits; and the breadth of the the wall round about within and without by door, seven cubits.

measure.

4 So he measured the length thereof, 18 And it was made with cherubims twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty and palm-trees, so that a palm-tree was cubits, before the temple: and he said between a cherub and a cherub; and every unto me, This is the most holy place. cherub had two faces;

5 After he measured the wall of the 19 So that the face of a man was toward house, six cubits; and the breadth of every the palm-tree on the one side, and the face side-chamber, four cubits, round about the of a young lion toward the palm-tree on house on every side. the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

6 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 about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

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 appear7 And there was an enlarging, and a ance of the one as the appearance of the other. winding about still upward to the side- 22 The altar of wood was three cubits chambers: for the winding about of the high, and the length thereof two cubits; bouse went still upward round about the and the corners thereof, and the length

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