1 The measures, parts, and BEFORE CHRIST 574. 2 Or, endirons, or, the two hearthstones. 1 Chr. 6.31. Num. 3. 27, 28, 32, 38. & 18. 5. 1 Chr. 9. 23. EZEKIEL, XLI. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43 And within were 2 hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. 44 T 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 toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. 3 45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward Lev. 8.35. the south, is for the priests, the keepers 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. 2 Chr. 13.11. 3 Or, ward, Ps. 134. 1. or, ordi nance: And so ver. 46. ☐ Num.18.5. ch. 44. 15. x 1 Kings 2. 35. ch. 43. 19. 47 So he measured the court, an & 44. 15, 16. hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house. 1Kings6.3. 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 y The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there z 1 Kings 7. were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. 21. 4 Or, entrance. AFTERWARD he brought me to the temple, and measured the 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 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; ornaments of the temple. CHRIST 574. a 1 Kings 6. and the door, six cubits; and the BEFORE breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4 So the measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth twenty cubits, before the temple: and 2 Chr. 3. 8. he said unto me, This is the most 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 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. 7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. 8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were da full reed of six a ch. 40. 5. 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 chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; 14. Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one 6 Or, several side and on the other side, an hun-walks, or dred cubits, with the inner temple, pillars. and the porches of the court; with 4 Heb. measures. f 1 Kings 6. 29. g See ch. 1. 10. 6 Heb. post. Ex. 30. 1. I ch. 44. 16. k Ex. 30. 8. m ch. 40. 16. ver. 16. ach. 41. 12, 15. 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. 4 18 And it was made f with cherubims 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 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. 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. 21 The 5 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 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 before the LORD. 23 1And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. for the priests. cubits was the north door, and the BEFORE CHRIST 574. 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery bch. 41. 16. against gallery in three stories. b And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 2 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, 3 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, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 2 Or, did eat of these. Or, and the building consisted of the lower and the middlemost. 9 And from under these cham-Or, from the place. bers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. 10 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward 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 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. 25 And there were made on them, God's glory cometh BEFORE CHRIST 574. 2 Heb.wind. 8 ch. 40. 5. h ch. 45. 2. a ch. 10. 19. & 44. 1. & 46. 1. b ch. 11. 23. c ch. 1. 24. e ch. 1.4, 28. & 8. 4. 8 Or, when I came to prophesy that the city should be destroyed: EZEKIEL, XLIII. 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 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it by the four sides it had a wall round about, hfive hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. CHAPTER XLIII. 1 The returning of the glory of God into the temple. 7 The sin of Israel hindered God's presence. 10 The prophet exhorteth them to repentance, and observation of the law of the house. 13 The measures, 18 and the ordinances of the altar. to the gate, even the gate a that looketh toward the east: into the temple. 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 carcases of their kings in their high places. BEFORE CHRIST 574. p ch. 39. 7. q Lev. 26.30. Jer. 16. 18. 16. 14. & 21. ch. 8. 3. & 8 In their setting of their thresh-See2 Kings old by my thresholds, and their post 4,5,7, by my posts, and the wall between 23. 39. & me and them, they have even defiled 44.7. 2 Or, for my holy name by their abominations there was that they have committed: where-but a walle fore I have consumed them in mine and them. anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their ⚫ver. 7. kings, far from me, and I will dwell | t ver. 7. in the midst of them for ever. me 10 ¶ Thou son of man, "shew theach. 40. 4. 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 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; 3 Or, sum, or, number. AFTERWARD he brought me Upon the top of the mountain the xch. 40. 2. whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. See ch. 9. 1, I fell upon my face. 5. f So Jer. 1. 10. g ch. 1. 3. & 3. 23. h See ch. 10. 19. & 44. 2. 4 "And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and 1 ch.3.12.14. brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. & 8. 3. k 1 Kings 8. 10, 11. ch. 44. 4. 1 ch. 40. 3. m Ps. 99. 1. k 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and 'the man 1 Chr.28.2. stood by me. Ps. 99. 5. o Ex. 29.45. Ps. 68. 16. & 132. 14. Joel 3. 17. John 1. 14. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 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 & 41. 8. Ileb. bosom. 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: They ch. 40. 5. cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round 5 about 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 greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof. 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 Heb. lip. are, that is the moun • Heb. tain of God. 7 Heb. Arich that is, the lion of God. Is. 29. 1. 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 of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, Heb. 13.11. 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 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 beLev. 2.13. fore the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD. g Ex. 29. 35, 36. Lev. 8. 33. 2 Heb. fill their hands. Ex. 29. 24. b Lev. 9. 1. Or, thank The priests reproved. by it; b because the LORD, the God 3 It is for the prince; the prince, е 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face. BEFORR CHRIST 574. b ch. 43. 4. Gen. 31.54. ach. 46. 2,8. 1 Cor. 10. 18. e ch. 3. 23. & 43. 5. f ch. 1. 28. 2 Heb. set 5 And the LORD said unto me, 5 Son of man, 2mark well, and be-gch. 40. 4. hold with thine eyes, and hear with thine heart. thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. re h ch. 2. 5. 6 And thou shalt say to the h bellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, 'let it suffice you ofch. 45. 9. all your abominations, 1 Pet. 4. 3. ver. 9. dren of a 7 In that ye have brought intoch. 43. 8. m uncir-Acts 21. 23. my sanctuary 31 strangers, cumcised in heart, and uncircumcised & Heb. chilin flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer "my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. о 8 And ye have not Pkept the charge 25 Seven days shalt thou every 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 2 consecrate themselves. 27 h And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and Rom. 12.1. I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD. offerings. i Job 42. 8. ch.20.40,41. 1 Pet. 2. 5. a ch. 43. 1. 9 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. 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and "they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and w5 caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near stranger. mLev 26.41. Deut. 10. 16. 1 Lev. 22.25. Acts 7. 51. a Lev. 21. 6, 8, 17, 21. & 17. 11. Lev. 22. 2, • Lev. 3. 16. &C. 4 Or, ward, or, ordinance: And so ver. 14, & 16, & ch. 40. 45. a ver. 7. е 15 ¶ But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to e Deut. 10.8. minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD: 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. f ver. 7. 8 ch. 41. 22. 40, 43. & 39. 27, 28. h 17 ¶ And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of Ex. 28. 39, the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. ! Ex. 28. 40, 42. & 39. 28. 2 Or, in sweating places. 3 Heb. in, or, with sweat. k ch. 42. 14. 1 ch. 46. 20. 37. & 30. 29. See Ex. 29. Lev. 6. 27. Matt. 23. 17, 19. m Lev. 21.5. n Lev. 10. 9. Lev. 21. 7, 13, 14. 4 Heb. thrust forth. 5 Heb.from a priest. a Deut. 17. 8, &c. 10. upon 18 They shall have linen bonnets their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves 23 with any thing that causeth sweat. k 19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments. m 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. 21" Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow 5 that had a priest before. 23 And Pthey shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 24 And in controversy they shall 2 Chr. 19.8, stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my See ch. 22. statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. 26. г 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meat offer-29. & 7. 6. ing, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and a every dedicated thing in Israel shall be their's. 30 And the 3b first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your tions, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. Num. 18.14. devoted. Or, chief. b Ex. 13. 2. & 22. 29, 30. Num. 3. 13. 23.10. & 18. 12, 13. Num. 15. 20. Neh.10.37. d Prov. 3. 9, 10. Mal. 3. 10. • Ex. 22. 31. Lev. 22.8. MOREOVER, when ye shall ch, when ye cause the a ch. 47. 22. b ch. 48. 8. 5 Heb. divide by lot the land for in-land to fall. heritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the holiness. length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. |