30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

31 Then P fhall ye remember your own evil 16.61, 63. ways, and your doings that were not good, and Lev. 26. 9 fhall loathe your felves in your own light, for Chap. 6.9. your iniquities, and for your abominations.

39.

& 20.43. Deut.

9.5.

32 Not for your fakes do I this, faith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be afhamed and confounded for your own ways, O houfe of Ifrael.

33 Thus faith the Lord GOD, In the day that I fhall have cleanfed you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes fhall be builded.

34 And the defolate land fhall be tilled, whereas it lay defolate in the fight of all that paffed by.

35 And they fhall fay, This land that was Ifai. 51. defolate is become like the garden of Eden; and Chap. 28. the wafte, and defolate, and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

36 Then the heathen that are left round about you, fhall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was defoChap, late: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will 17.24.8 .& do it.

12.14.&

37.14.

+ Heb.

things.

37 Thus faith the Lord GOD, I will yet for this be enquired of by the houfe of Ifrael, to do it for them, I will increase them with men like a flock.

38 As the + holy flock, as the flock of Jeflock of holy rufalem in her folemn feafts; fo fhall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, and they fhall know that I am the LORD.

CHA P. XXXVII.

1 By the refurrection of dry bones, 11 the dead hope of Ifrael is revived. 15 By the uniting of two flicks, 18 is fhewed the incorporation of Ifrael into Judah. 20 The promifes of Chrifts kingdom.

"He a hand of the LORD was upon me, and

and fet me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

2 And caufed me to pass by them round about, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and lo, they were very dry. E

3. And he said unto me, Son of man, can thefe bones live? and I anfwered, O Lord God, thou knoweft.

Before

The refurrection of dry bones. 4 Again he faid unto me, Prophefie upon thefe bones, and fay unto them, O ye dry bones, Chrift hear the word of the LORD. 587.

5 Thus faith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, I will caufe breath to enter into you, ye fhall live.

and

6 And I will lay finews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and breath in put thall live, and you; ye band ye fhall know that I am the LORD.

b Chap. 6.

II.

7 So I prophefied as I was commanded: and 7.& 35• as I prophefied there was a noife, and behold a joel 2. 27. fhaking, and the bones came together bone to & 3 27. his bone.

8 And when I beheld, lo, the finews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above; "but there was no breath in them.

9 Then faid he unto me, Prophefie unto the wind, prophefie, fon of man, and fay to the Or, wind, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Come from beh the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon 104. 30. these flain, that they may live.

10 So I prophefied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

12 Therefore prophefie and fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Behold, O my e Ifai.26%. people, I will open your graves, and cause you 19to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Ifrael.

13 And ye fhall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

14 And fhall put my fpirit in you, and ye fhall live, and I fhall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, faith the LORD.

15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, faying,

17.2.

16 Moreover, thou fon of man, ftake thee ƒ see one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and Numb. for 8 the children of Ifrael his companions: theng 2 Chron, take another stick, and write upon it, For Jofeph 11. and, Ifrael his companions,

17 And joyn them one to another into one ftick, and they shall become one in thine hand.

18 And when the children of thy people fhall fpeak unto thee, faying, Wilt thou not fhew us what thou meanest by these?

i Ifai. II. 13. Jer. 3. 18.

John 10.16.

hand.

20 And the flicks whereon thou writeft, fhall be in thine hand before their eyes.

21 And fay unto them, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will take the children of Ifrael from among the heathen whither they be gone, and will gather them on every fide, and bring

them into their own land.

land

22 And I will make them one nation in the upon the mountains of Ifrael, and one Hof. 1.11. king fhall be king to them all: and they fhall be no more two nations, neither fhall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23 Neither fhall they defile themfelves any more with their idols, nor with their deteftable things, nor with any of their tranfgreffions: but I will fave them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have finned, and will cleanse them: fo fhall they be my people, and I will be their

/ Ifaiah 40. II.

Jer. 23.5.

God.

24 And David my fervant fhall be king over them and m they all fhall have one shepherd: & 30.9. they fhall alfo walk in my judgments, and obChap. 34 ferve my ftatutes, and do them.

23.

Hof. 3. 5. Luke 1. 32.

25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my fervant, wherein your Verf. 22. fathers have dwelt, and they fhall dwell therein, even they and their children, and their childrens children for ever, and a my fervant David fhall be their prince for ever.

John 10. 16.

n John

12.34.

n

26 Morcover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will fet my P fanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

27 9 My tabernacle alfo fhall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my 11. 20. & people.

r Chap.

14.11. & 36.28.

• Chap. 39. I.

Rev.

20.8. Or,

prince of the chief.

28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do fanctifie Ifrael, when my fanctuary fhall be in the midst of them for evermore.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

1 The army, 8 and malice of Gog: 14 Gods judgment against him.

And the word of the LORD came unto me, faying,

2. Son of man fet thy face against b Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Melhech and Tubal, and prophefie against him,

3 And fay, Thus faith the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

The army, and malice of Gog:

ca King.

4 And I will turn thee back and put hooks Before into thy chaws, and I will bring thee forth, and Chrift all thine army, horfes and horfemen, all of 587. them clothed with all forts of armour, even a 19.28. great company with bucklers and fhields, all of Chap. 29. them handling fwords.

4.& 39.24

d Chap.

Or,

5 Perfia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them ; 23.12. all of them with fhield and helmet:

6 Gomer, and all his bands, The house of Togarmah of the north-quarters, and all his bands, and many people with thee.

7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thy felf, thou and all thy company that are affembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

e

Phat.

I.

Verf. 16.

8 After many days thou fhalt be vifited: Gen.49in the latter years thou fhould come into the land that is brought back from the fword, and is f Verf. 12. gathered out of many people against the mountains of Ifrael, which have been always wafte: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they fhall dwell fafely all of them.

9 Thou shalt afcend and come like a storm, thou fhalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

12+ To take a fpoil, and to take a prey, to + Heb. turn thine hand upon the defolate places that are Spoil, and now inhabited, hand now inhabited, hand upon the people that are toprey the gathered out of the nations, which have gotten Verf. 8. cattle and goods, that dwell in the + midst of + Heb. the land.

13 Sheba and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarfhifh, with all the young lions thereof, fhall fay unto thee, Art thou come to take a fpoil? haft thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away filver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

prey.

navel.

14 Therefore, fon of man, prophefie and fay unto Gog, Thus faith the Lord GOD, In¡ Ifai.4. that day when my people of Ifrael dwelleth fafe

ly, fhalt thou not know it?

15k And thou fhalt come from thy place out Chap. of the north-parts, thou and many people with 39.2. thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army..

16 And thou fhalt come up againft my people of Ifrael, as a cloud to cover the land, it verf. 8. thall be in the latter days. and I will bring thee

against

20 So that P the fishes of the fea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beafts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of 9 Jer. 4.4. the earth, shall shake at my prefence, 9 and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the fteep places fhall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Or,

Bowers, or,

fairs.

6.

21 And I will call for a fword against him throughout all my mountains, faith the Lord GOD: every mans fword fhall be against his brother.

22 And I will plead against him with peftiPfal. 11.lence and with blood, and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hail ftones, fire and brimftone.

s Chap. 36.23.8 37.28.

a Chap. 38.2.

|| Or,

Strike thee with fix plagues;

draw

23 Thus will I magnifie my felf, and fanЄtifie my self, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they fhall know that I am the LORD.

CHA P. XXXIX.

I Gods judgment upon Gog. 8 Ifraels victory. 11 Gods burial in Hamon-gog. 17 The feast of the fowls. 23 Ifrael having been plagued for their fins, ball be gathered again with eternal favour.

Therefore, a thou fon of man, prophefie a

GOD, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the fixth part of thee, band will caufe thee to come up from the north-parts, and will bring book of fix thee upon the mountains of Ifrael:

thee back with an

teeth.

as Crap. 38.4. b Chap.

3 And I will fmite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of

38.15 thy right hand.

+ Heb.

the fides of 4 Thou fhalt fall upon the mountains of Ifthe north rael, thou and all thy bands, and the people that, with thee: I will give thee unto the

c Chap. 33.27.

Ifraels victory.

ravenous birds of every + fort, and to the beafts Before Chrift of the field + to be devoured.

5 Thou shalt fall upon + the open field, for 587. I have spoken it, faith the Lord GOD.

+ Heb. wing.

a- + Heb. † Heb.

to devour.

6 And I will fend a fire on Magog, and mong them that dwell || carelefly in the ifles, and they fhall know that I am the LORD.

t the face of the field.

or,

7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Ifrael, and I will not let them confidently. pollute my holy name any more; and the heathen fhall know that I am the LORD, the holy One in Ifrael.

10 So that they fhall take no wood out of the of them. field, neither cut down any out of the forefts: for they fhall burn the weapons with fire, and they fhall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, faith the Lord GOD.

11 And it fhall come to pafs in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Ifracl, the valley of the paffengers on the caft of the fea; and it shall stop the noses of the or, paffengers: and there fhall they bury Gog, and mouths. all his multitude, and they fhall call it, the valley of || Hamon-gog.

12 And feven months fhall the house of Ifrael be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them, and it fhall be to them a renown the day that I fhall be glorified, faith the Lord GOD.

16 And alfo the name of the city fhall be Ha-e. monah: thus fhall they cleanse the land. e Rev. 19. 17 And thou fon of man, Thus faith the Heb. Lord GOD, Speak†unto every feathered fowl, to the fol and to every beast of the field, f Affemble your wing. felves, and come, gather your felves on every 6. fide to my facrifice that I do facrifice for you, fer. 12.9even a great facrifice upon the mountains of If- Zeph. 1.7. racl, that ye may eat fleth, and drink blood. flaughter. Y y

18 Ye fhall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and oft goats, of bullocks, great goats. all of them fatlings of Bafhan. 19 And ye fhall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my facrifice which I have facrificed for you.

Pfal. 76.

20 8 Thus ye fhall be filled at my table with Chap. 38. horfes and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, faith the Lord GOD.

4.

21 And I will fet my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen fhall fee my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

22 So the houfe of Ifrael fhall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

23 And the heathen fhall know that the houfe of Ifrael went into captivity for their iniquity because they trefpaffed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies; fo fell they all by the fword.

24 According to their uncleanness, and according to their tranfgreffions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

25 Therefore thus faith the Lord GOD, Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Ifrael, and will be jealous for my holy name:

26 After that they have born their fhame, and all their trefpaffes whereby they have trefpaffed against me, when they dwelt fafely in their land, and none made them afraid.

27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their eneChap. mies lands, and ham fanctified in them in the fight of many nations;

36.23.

28 Then fhall they know that I am the LORD Heb. their God, which caufed them to be led into by my canfing of captivity among the heathen: but I have gathem, &c. thered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

29 Neither will I hide my face any more from Joel 2. them: for I have poured out my fpirit upon Ads 2.17.the houfe of Ifracl, faith the Lord GOD.

28.

Christ

b Chap.

2 In the vifions of God brought he me into, 574. the land of Ifrael, and fet me upon a very high 1.3. mountain, by which was as the frame of a city or, on the fouth.

3 And he brought me thither, and behold, there was a man, whofe appearance was like the appearance of brafs, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring-reed; and he ftood in the gate.

4 And the man faid unto me, d Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and fet thine heart upon all that I fhall fhew thee; for to the intent that I might fhew them unto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou feeft, to the houfe of Ifracl.

upon which.

Rev. 11.

1. & 21. 15.

Chap.

44.5.

5 And behold, a wall on the out-fide of the houfe round about, and in the mans hand a meafuring-reed of fix cubits long, by the cubit, and an hand-breadth: fo he measured the breadth of the building, one reed, and the height one reed. 6 Then came he unto the gate + which looketh toward the caft, and went up the stairs befe face thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, way toward which was one reed broad, and the other thre- the caft. fhold 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 threshold of the gate, by the porch of the gate within, was one reed.

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

9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits, and the pofts thereof two cubits, and the porch of the gate was inward.

10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward, were three on this fide, and three on that fide, they three were of one meafure, and the pofts had one measure on this fide and on that fide.

II And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate ten cubits, and the length of the gate thirteen cubits.

+ Heb.

was the

limit, or,

12 The+fpace alfo before the little cham- + Heb. bers was one cubit on this fide, and the fpace was bound. one cubit on that fide, and the little chambers were fix cubits on this fide, and fix cubits on that fide.

13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.

14 He made alfo pofts, of threefcore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

A defcription of the gates and

Before Chrift

buildings of the temple.

15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance, unto the face of the porch of the inner 574. gate, were fifty cubits.

+Heb.

clofed.

Or, galleries,

or, porches. Or, within.

• Rev. II.

2.

f Chap. 45.5.

16 And there were † narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewife to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each poft were palm-trees.

17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

18 And the pavement by the fide of the gates over against the length of the gates, was the lower pavement.

19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate, unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits from with- eaft-ward and north-ward.

ont.

Or,

20 And the gate of the outward court + Heb. that looked toward the north, he meatured sohofe face the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

was.

21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this fide, and three on that fide, and the pofts thereof, and the arches thereof were after the galleries measure of the first gate: the length thereof was or, porches. fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty

Or,

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 unto it by seven steps, and the arches thereof were before them.

23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east, and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.

24 After that he brought me toward the fouth, and behold, a gate toward the fouth, and he measured the pofts thereof, and the arches thereof according to thefe measures.

25 And there were windows in it, and in the arches thereof round about, like thofe windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

26 And there were feven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them, and it had palm-trees, one on this fide, and another on that fide upon the posts thereof.

27 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the fouth, and he measured from gate to gate toward the fouth an hundred cubits.

28 And he brought me to the inner court by the fouth gate, and he measured the fouth-gate according to these measures:

29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according

Verf. 21.

+ Heb.

30 And the arches round above were & fives See and twenty cubits long, and five cubits + broad. &25,8 31 And the arches thereof were toward the 33, &36. utter court, and palm-trees were upon the pofts breadth thereof, and the going up to it had eight fteps. 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the eaft, and he measured the gate according to these meafnres.

33 And the little chambers thereof, and the polts thereof, and the arches thereof were according to these measures, and there were windows therein, and in the arches thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court, and palm-trees were upon the pofts thereof on this fide, and on that side, and the going up to it bad eight steps.

35 And he brought me to the north-gate, and he measured it according to these measures:

36 The little chambers thereof, the pofts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

37 And the pofts thereof were toward the utter court, and palm-trees were upon the pofts thereof on this fide, and on that fide, and the going up to it had eight fteps.

38 And the chambers, and the entries thereof were by the pofts of the gates, where they wafhed the burnt-offerings.

39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this fide, and two tables on that fide, to flay thereon the burnt-offering, and the finoffering, and the trefpafs-offering.

Lev. 4.

2. & 5.2. & 6.2.

I.

40 And at the fide without, as one goethi Lev. 7. up to the entry of the north-gate, were two ta- Or, bles; and on the other fide, which was at the at the fep. porch of the gate, were two tables,

41 Four tables were on this fide, and four tables on that fide, by the fide of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they flew their facrifices.

42 And the four tables were of hewn ftone for the burnt-offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon alfo they laid the inftruments wherewith they flew the burnt-offering and the facrifice.

43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, or, faftned round about; and upon the tables wasdien the flesh of the offering.