Ezekiel's vision of Before about 587. 11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. the LORD their God, † which caused | had one measure on this side and on CHRIST them to be led into captivity among that side. the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. 20 P Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have a poured out my Spirit upon the house of IsZach. 12. 10. racl, saith the Lord GOD. + Heb. by my causing of them, fc. PIs. 51. 8. q Joel 2. 28. Acta 2, 17. 574. ach. 33. 21. boh. 1. 3. c ch. 8. 3. d Rev. 21. 10. 1Or, upon which. ⚫ ch. 1. 7. Dan. 10. 6. fch. 47.3. TN year of In the five and, twente beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that "the city was smitten, in the selfsame day bthe hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, dand 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, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, f with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood Rev. 11. 1. & in the gate. 21. 15. h ch. 41, 5. ich. 43. 10. keh, 12, 20, ↑ Heb, whose face was the way toward the east. 4 And the man said unto me, h Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: i declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. 5 And behold ka wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and a handbreadth: 80 he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. 6 T Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the cast, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold 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 Ife 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 castward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts 12 The † 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. 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 also of threescore 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. Before CHRIST 574. t Heh, limit, or, bound 17 Then brought he me into 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 side 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, a hundred cubits eastward Or, from and northward. 20 T And the gate of the outward court t that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. 21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the 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 toward 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 a hundred cubits. 24 T After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures. 25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was without. ↑ Heb. whos face was. Or.galleria. or, porches. The description of the gates. Before EZEKIEL fifty cubits, and the breadth five and CHRIST twenty cubits. 574. The chambers for the singers. Before four tables on that side, by the side 26 And there were seven steps to go 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 the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30 And the arches round about were Pfive and twenty cubits long, and five cubits f broad. 31 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps. 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts 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 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; 26 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 breadth five and twenty cubits. ward the outer court; and palm trees posts thereof were were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. 38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering. 39 T And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. 40 And at the side without, 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 574. 43 And within were hooks, a hand Or, and broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. rons, or, the two heartholones. 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the 1 Chr. 6. 31. inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. 45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers Lev. 8. 35. of the charge of the house. 46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, "the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him. Num. 2. 27, 28, 32, N. & 18. 5. 1 Chr. 9. 23. 2 Chr. 13. 11 P. 134. 1. ¡Or.ward, or, erdinence: And so ver. 46. 47 So he measured the court, a hund-Num. 18. & red cubits long, and a hundred cubits 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. eh. 41. 15. x 1 Kin. 2. 35, eh. 43, 19. & 44. 15, 10. 49 The length of the porch was y1Kings 6.3. twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the 1 Kings7.21. posts, one on this side, and another on that side. CHAPTER XLI. The measures, parts, chambers, and orna. ments of the temple. A the temple, and measured t FTERWARD he brought me to posts, six 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 Or,entrance, 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 thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then went he 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 there- 1 Kings 6. of, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and 20. 2 Chr. 3. 8. The measures, parts, chambers, 574. EZEKIEL. Before he said unto me, This is the most CHRIST holy place. 5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. 6 b And the side chambers were three, tone 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. bl Kings 6.5, + Heb. eide + Heb. be made broad 7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the wind+ Heb. it was ing about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house 1 Kings 6. 8. was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. er, and went round. dek, 40, 5, Or, several walks, or, walks with pillars. ech. 40. 16. ver. 28. +Heb. ceiling and ornaments of the temple. tree was between a cherub and a Before cherub; and every cherub had two CHRIST faces; 574. 19 8 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. See eh. 1.10. 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. 21 The posts of the temple were + Heb. post. squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22 b The altar of wood was three hEx. 30. 1. cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is 8 I saw also the height of the housek before the LORD. round about: the foundations of the side chambers were da 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 wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side cham- 12 Now the building that was before 15 And he measured the length of 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, + ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. 18 And it was made with cheruf1 Kin, 6.23 bim and palm trees, so that a palm Heb. Measures. 231 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leares for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. 26 And there were narrow win- CHAPTER XLII. ich. 44. 16. Mal. 1.7, 12 Ex. 30. & 11 Kim. 6. 31 -35. meh. 40, 16. ver, 16. THEN he brought me forth into 2 Before the length of a hundred 3 Over against the twenty cubits 4 And before the chambers was a of there. 5 Now the upper chambers were 6 For they were in three stories, but 1 Or, and the building com sisted of the Lower and the middlemed. 1Or. from the place. 1 Or, he that brought me. ¡Or, as he ver. 4. over against the chambers, toward 8 For the length of the chambers The returning of the glory of God into CHRIST the temple. 7 The sin of Israel hindered cubits: and, lo, before the temple AFTERWARD he brought me to were a hundred cubits. the gate, eren the gate "that looketh toward the east: e 574. ch. 10. 19.& 44. 1. & 46.1. beh. 11. 23. ech. 1. 24. liev. 1. 15, & 14.2.& 19. L 6. 9 And from under these chambers If And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward 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 toward the south was a door in the head of the way, eren the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy Lev. 2.3.10. things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: for the place is holy. d Lev.6.16,20, & 21.9. &6.14.17,25, 29. & 7. 1. & 10. 13, 14. Num. 15. 9. 10. fch, 44. 19. + Heb, wind. geh. 40. 5. heh, 45, 2. 14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein 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 toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19 T He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it by the four sides: Bit had a wall round about, bfive hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. 4 bAnd the glory of the LORD came 5 So the spirit took me up, and 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. 7 And he said unto 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 P no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcasses of their kings, far from me, and I will t ver. 7. dwell in the midst of them for ever. 10 T Thou son of man, "shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12 This is the law of the house; | Or, sum, or, number. The measures of the altar. EZEKIEL 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth; even + Heb. bosom. the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span; and this shall be the higher place of the altar. + Heb. lip. ↑ Heb. Harel, that is, the mountain of God. + Heb. Ariel, that is, the lion of God, Is. 29. 1. z Soo Ex. 20. 20. a Lov. 1. 5. b ch. 41. 15. © Ex.29.10.12. 14 And from the bottom upon the 16 And the altar shall be twelve cu- 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east. 18 T And he said unto 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 thereon, and to "sprinkle blood thereon. The priests reproved. altar and purify it; and they shall 27 And when these days are ex- CHAPTER XLIV. THE Before CHRIST 574. + Heb. fill h Lev. 9. 1. HEN he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward ach. 43. L the east; and it was shut. 2 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; b because the LORD the God of Israel hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; dhe shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 4 T Then brought he me the way of Lev. 8.14.15. fering. ch, 45, 18, 19. 20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also dEx. 29. 14. of the sin offering, and he d shall burn it in the appointed place of the Heb. 13. 11. house, without the sanctuary. f Lev. 2. 13. Ex. 29.85,36, Lev. 8. 33. 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 did cleanse 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, fand the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 20 Seven days shall they purge the bch. 43.4. e Gen. 31. 54 1 Cor. 10. 18 d el, 46, 2, & ch. 3. 22. & 43. 5. fch. 1. 28. 6 And thou shalt say to the re- heh, 2. 5 bellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, ilet it suffice you of all your abominations, 7 K In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, cren my house, when ye offer "my bread, "the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. 8 And ye have not P kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 9 T Thus saith the Lord GOD: No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. Ter. 9. Acts 21. 23 + Heb. children of a stranger. 1 Lev. 22. 25. • Lov. 3., 10. & Or, ward, or, ordinance: r Seo 2 Kings 23. 8. &e. 10 And the Levites that are gone ver. 7. away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. |