The promises of EZEKIEL. Christ s kingdom. round about; and, behold, there were thee one stick, and write upon it, For very many in the open valley; and,|Judah, and for the children of Israel lo, they were very dry. This companions: then take another 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, can these bones live? and I answered, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the O Lord God, thou knowest. house of Israel his companions: 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy| upon these bones, and say unto them, Oye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live : 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand. 18 T And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these? & Aud 1 will lay sinews upon you, 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the and will bring up flesh upon you, and Lord Gon; Behold I will take the cover you with skin, and put breath in stick of Joseph, which is in the hand you, and ye shall live; and ye shall of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel kuow that I am the Lord. his fellows, and will put them with 7 So I prophesied as I was command-him, even with the stick of Judah, and ed: and as I prophesied, there was a make them one stick, and they shall be noise, and behold a shaking, and the one in thy hand. bones came together, bone to his Lone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. 20 T And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes. 21 Aud say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Bebold I will take the children of israel from among the hea 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy then, whither they be gone, and will unto the wind, prophesy, sou of mau, gather them on every side, and bring and say to the wind, Thus saith the them into their own land: Lord God; Come from the four winds,| 22 And 1 will make them one nation O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11 T Then he said unto me, Son of 23 Neither shall they defile thei man, these bones are the whole house selves any more with their idols, nor of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones with their detestable things, nor with are dried, and our hope is lost; we are any of their transgressions: but I will cut off for our parts. save them out of all their dwelling12 Therefore prophesy and say unto places wherein they have sinned, and thern, Thus saith the Lord Goo; Be-will cleanse them: so shall they be hold, O my people, I will open your my people, and I will be their God. graves, and cause you to come up out 24 And David my servant shall be of your graves, and bring you into the king over them; and they all shall land of Israel. have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my ser 14 And shall put my spirit in you, vant, wherein your fathers have dwelt: and ye shall live, and I shall place and they shall dwell therein, even you in your own land: then shall ye they, and their children, and their know that I the LORD have spoken it, children's children, for ever: and my and performed it, saith the LORD. | servant David shall be their prince for 15 The word of the Loxo came ever. 13 And ye shall know that I am the Lond, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, again unto me, saying, 26 Moreover I will make a covenant 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take of peace with them; it shall be an CHAP. XXXVIII. God's judgments oguist Gog. everlasting covenant with them; and dwell safely, a of them dwelling I will place them, and multiply them, without walls, and having neither bars and will set my sanctuary in the midst nor gates, of them forevermore. 12To take a spoil,and to take a prey; 27 My tabernacle also shall be with to turn thy hand upon the desolate them yea, 1 will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the heathen shall know that I the Lono do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore. CHAP. XXXVIII. places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which bave gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. 13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young AND the word of the LORD came lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art unto me, saying, thou come to take a spoil ? hast thou 2 Son of man, set thy face against gathered thy company to take a prey? Gog, the land of Magog, the chief to carry away silver and gold, to take prince of Meshech and Tubal, and away cattle and goods, to take a great prophesy against him, spoil? 3 Aud say, Thus saith the Lord 14 1 Therefore, son of man, proph GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Ojcsy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Lord GOD; In that day, when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it ? Tubal: 1 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring 15 And thou shalt come from thy thee forth, and all thine army, horses place out of the north parts, thou, and and horsemen, all of them clothed many people with thee, all of them with all sorts of armour, even a great riding upon horses, a great company, company with bucklers and shields,all and a mighty army: of them handling swords: 16 And thou shalt come up against 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Lybia with my people of Israel, as a cloud tɔ them; all of them with shield and hel-cover the land; it shall be in the latter met: days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know nie, when I shall be sanctified in thee, 0 Gog, before their eyes. 6 Gomer,and all his bands; the house of Togarah of the north quarters, and all his bands; and many people with thee. 7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. 17 Thus saith the Lord Gov; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those day many years, that I would bring thee against them? 8 After many days thou shalt he visited: in the latter years thou shalt 18 And it shall come to pass at the come into the land that is brought back same time when Gog shall conie from the sword,and is gathered out of against the land of Israel, saith the many people,against the mountains of Lord Gor, that my fury shall comme Israel, which have been always waste:up in my face. but it isbrought forth outof the nations, 19 For in my jealousy and in the fire and they shall dwell safely all of them. [of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in Thou shalt ascend and come like a that day there shall be a great shaking storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to in the land of Israel; cover the land, thou,and all thy bands, and many people with thee. 10 Thus saith the Lord God; 1t shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: 20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the ñeld, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and ev 11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; 1ery wall shall fall to the ground. will go to them that are at rest, that] 21And I will call for a sword against Israel's victory. EZEKIEL. Gog's burial. him throughout all my mountains, spoil those that spoiled them, and rob saith the Lord God: every man's those that robbed them,saith the Lord sword shall be against his brother God. 22 And I will plead against him with 11 T And it shall come to pass in that pestilence and with blood; and I will] day, that I will give unto Gog a place rain upon him,and upon his bands,and there of graves in Israel, the valley of upon the many people that are with the passengers on the east of the sea; lim, an overflowing rain, and great and it shall stop the noses of the pas hailstones, fire, and brimstone. sengers and there shall they bury 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and Gog and all bis multitude; and they sanctify myself; and I will be known shall call it, The valley of Hamonto the eyes of many nations, and they gog. shall know that I am the LORD. CHAP. XXXIX. HEREFORE, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I um against thee, O Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: 2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel. 3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. 13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them and it shall be to them a renown, the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord Gon. 14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,passingthrough the land, to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. 15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a 4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains man's bone, then shall be set up a sign of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, audby it, till the buriers have buried it in the people that is with thee: I will the valley of Hamon-gog. give thee unto the ravenous birds of 16 And also the name of the cityshall every sort,and to the beasts of the field be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse to be devoured. the land. 5 Thou shalt fall upon 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 carelessly in the isles and they shall know that I am the LORD. 17 T And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD, Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the 7 So will I make my holy name mountains of Israel, that ye may eat known in the midst of my people Is-flesh, and drink blood. rael; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lond, the Holy One in Israel. ST Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord Gon; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shali set ou fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand-stares and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: 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 Basban. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 Thus shall ye 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 10 So that they shall take no wood the heathen, and all the heathen shall out of the field, neither cut down any see my judgment that I have executed, out of the forests; for they shall burn and my hand that I have laid upon the weapons with fire: and they shall]thei l'he gates fc. CHAP. XL. of the temple. 22 So the house of Israel shall know hear with thine ears,and set thy heart that I am the LORD their God from upon all that I shall show thee: for to that day and forward. the intent that I might show them unto 23 T And the heathen shall know thee art thou brought hither: declare that the house of Israel went into cap-|all that thou seest to the house of Istivity for their iniquity: because they rael trespassed against me, therefore hid 1| 5 And behold a wall on the outside my face from them, and gave them of the house round about, and in the into the hand of their enemies; so fellman's hand a measuring reed of six they all by the sword. cubits long by the cubit and a hand 24 According to their uncleanness, breadth: so be measured the breadth and according to their transgressions, of the building, one reed; and the have I done unto them, and hid my height, one reed. face from them. 6 ¶ Then came he unto the gatewhich 25 Therefore thus saith the Lord looketh toward the east, and went up Goo, Now will I bring again the cap- the stairs thereof, and measured the tivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon threshold of the gate, which was one the whole house of Israel, and will be reed broad; and the other threshold of jealous for iny holy name; the gate, which was one reed broad. 26 After that they have borne their 7 And every little chamber was one shame, and all their trespasses where-reed long, and one reed broad; aud by they have trespassed against me, between the little chambers were live when they dwelt safely in their land, cubits; aud the threshold of the gate and none made them afraid. by the porch of the gate within 2003 one reed. 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemics' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of ma ny nations; 23 Then shall they know that I am the Lond their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left aone of them any more there. 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Isracl, saith the Lord God. IN CHAP. XL. 9 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. 9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits: and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward. 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 ou 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 space also before the little chambers tras oue 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 ou that side. 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. 1 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate. N 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 that the city was smitten, in the self same day the hand of the Lond was upon me, and brought me thither. | 2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south. 3 And he brought me thither, and, sehold, there was a man, whose ap15 And from the face of the gate of pearance was like the appearance of the entrance unto the face of the porch brass, with a line of flax in his nand, of the inner gate were fifty cubits. and a measuring rced; and he stood in 16 And there were narrow windows the gate. to the little chambers, and to their 4 And the man said unto me, Son posts within the gate round about, of man, behold with thine eyes, and fand likewise to the arches: and win EZENIEL. The chambers, &c. of the temple. dows were round about inward: and 29 And the little chambers thereof, upon each post, were palm-trees. and the posts thereof, and the archce 17 Then brought he me into the out-thereof, according to these measures: ward court, and, lo, there were chain-and there were windows in it and in bers, and a pavement made for the the arches thereof round about: it was court round about: thirty chambers fifty cubits long, and five and twenty were upon the pavement. cubits broad. 18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. 30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. 19 Then be measured the breadth 31 And the arches thereof avere tofrom the forefront of the lower gate ward the outer court; and palm-trees unto the forefront of the inner court were upon the posts thereof: and the without, a hundred cubits eastward going up to it had eight steps. 32 And he brought me into the inner 20 ¶ And the gate of the outward court toward the east: and be meas court that looked toward the north,belured the gate according to these mensmeasured the length thereof, and the lures. and northward. breadth thereof. 33 And the little chambers thereof, 21 And the little chambers thereof and the posts thereof, and the arches were three on this side and three on thereof, were according to these mens that side; and the posts thereof andļures: and there were windows therem the arches thereof were after the meas-fand in the arches thereof round about. ure of the first gate: the length thereof [it was fifty cubits long, and live and was fifty cubits, and the breadth five twenty cubits broad. and twenty cubite. 22 And their windowa, and their srches,and their palm-trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east: and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof acere 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 a hundred cubits. 34 And the arches thereof were to ward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side; and the going up to it had eight steps. 35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; 36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about. the length was fifty cubits, and the 24 T After that he brought me toware |breadth five and twenty cubits. the south, and behold a gate toward 37 And the posts thereof were toward the south and be measured the posts the outer court; and palm-trees were thereof and the arches thereof accord-upon the posts thereof, ou this side, ing to these measures. and on that side: aud the going up tʊ it had eight steps. 25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about,like those windows: the length was fifly cubits, 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 eide, upon the posts thereof. 38. And the chambers and the entries thereof 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 thereon the burnt-ollering, and the sin-offering,and the trespass-offering. 40 And at the side without, as one 27 And there was a gate in the inner goeth up to the entry of the north gate, court toward the south: and he meas-were two tables ; and on the other side, ured from gate to gate toward 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 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, whereupon they Jalew their sacrifices. |