The measures, parts, chambers, Before CHAPTER XLÍ.....XLIÍ. m CHRIST 574. and ornaments of the temple. 48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, 16 The door-pos's, and the marrow windows, Before CHRIST and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on and the galleries round about on their three stories, this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth over against the door, ceiled with wood round about, of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three and from the ground up to the windows, and the win- 4 cubits on that side. dows were covered; 574. m Jer. 41, ■ ch. 40, 3. 2 Cor. 5, 5. b 2 Cor. 6, 16. Rev. 21 2 e Ex. 26,23. verse 4. & 14, 6, The measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple. 2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; 4 John 10,9, and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side; and he meaEx. 26,31, sured the length thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, 2 Chr. 3,14. twenty cubits. 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple. o ch. 1, 18. p ch. 1, 5. Luke 15, 7 & 12, 22. Lev. 4, 6. Psal. 20, 2. 21 The posts of the temple were squared,and the 16,2,3. face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other. r Ex. 30, 1. 1,2 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, 2 Chr. 4, 19 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 And 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. 6 And the side-chambers were three, one over 25 And there were made on them, on the "doors u b Isa. 26, 20. another, and thirty in order; and they entered into of the temple, cherubims and palm-trees, like as the wall, which was of the house for the side-cham-were made upon the walls; and there were thick John 4,4&bers round about, that they might have hold, but planks upon the face of the porch without. they had not hold in the wall of the house. Joha 4, 25. 8 I saw also the height of the house round about:THEN he brought me forth into the outer a cb. 40, 3. the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed Heb. 61. 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. MU, 11. 3, 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 122, 3. the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south; and the breadth Rev. 21,25. 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, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long; 1 The chambers for the priests: 13 The use thereof. court, the way toward the north; and he brought beh. 41, 12 me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building to- & ward the north. 2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the outer court, was † gallery against gallery in three stories. 4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. g Lev. 2, 3, chap. 10, 39. Isa. 61, 10. CHRIST EZEKIEL. 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. 574. Rev. 21, 3 & 22, 3. Joel 3, 17. 20, 21. 11 And the way before them was like the ap- 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresh- i Hos, 2, 16, pearance of the chambers which were toward the olds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between 14 north, as long as they, and as broad as they; and all me and them, they have even defiled my holy name Zech. 14, their goings-out were both according to their fash-by their abominations that they have committed: ions, and according to their doors. wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. 9 'Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. g 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 things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; for the place is holy. k 1 Kings 14.21, 7. 1 Hos. S, 5. 10 Thou son of man," shew the house to the 2 Cor. 7, 1. house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their m ch. 40, 4 iniquities; and let them measure the pattern. Rev. 21, 9. Mat. 3, 1. 20. 23. 22. 1 Pet. 2, 4 ↑ Heb. head, Psal. 15, 1. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion n P. 25, 13. thereof, and the goings-out thereof, and the comings- & 7, 6. & 28, in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordi- 1 Cor. 11, nances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ph. 2, 20, 14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but may keep the whole, form thereof, and all the orP 45, 13. there they shall lay their garments wherein theydinances thereof, and do them. Song 11. minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other 12 This is the law of the house; Upon the ftop Gal. 4, 26. Gal. 9.27 garments, and shall approach to those things which of the mountain, the whole limit thereof round about are for the people. shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. 13 And these are the measures of the alter after the cubits; The cubit is a cubit and a hand-breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof 16 He measured the east side with the measuring-round about shall be a span: and this shall be the reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about. 20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about five hundred reeds long, and five hun- 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long, and dred broad, to make a separation between the sanc-fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the tuary and the profane place. border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his 'stairs shall 1 Kings 18, 1 The glory of the Lord returneth into the temple.....13 The look toward the east. CHAPTER XLIII. measures and ordinances of the altar. 18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith AFTERWARD he brought me to the gate, even the Lord GOD, These are the ordinances of the altar the gate that looketh toward the east: a 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and his voice was e Rev. 18,1. like a noise of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory. C d chap. 1, 4. 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house, Heb. face, by the way of the gate whose † prospect is toward chap. 10. 19. the east. 2 Cor. 5,17 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 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, in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt- S r Ex. 20,29 32. 19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto &ch, 40, 45 me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GoD, a young bullock for a sin-offering 44, t2 Cor. 5, 21. 2 Cor. S, 20 And thou shalt take of the "blood thereof, and uch. 40, 33put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus Gal. 3, 1, shalt thou cleanse and purge it. 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sinoffering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. X 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. Heb. 9, 9, 24. x Heb. 13, 11, 12 The priests reproved. Before CHRIST 574. y Lev. 2, 13, Num. 18, CHAPTER XLIV. 24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and 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 2 Chr. 15,7. for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young Mat. 5, 13. bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. 26 Seven days shall they purge the altar, and purify it; and they shall † consecrate themselves. Mark 9, 49, Col. 4, 6. Hel, fill their hands, & 6, 33. 27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, Lev. 7. 37. that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord God. 1 ch. 40,39. ■ Luke 2, 10. Rom. 5, 2. a CHAPTER XLIV. The priests reproved for polluting of the sanctuary. ward the east, and it was shut. a 2 Then said the LORD unto me, This gate shall Ex. 12,12. be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, bhath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. Deut. 29, 29. Ps. 181, 2. 3 It is for the prince; the prince he shall sit in it bch. 43,2, to eat bread before the LORD: he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 21. Jer. 30, Dan. 12, 1. 15. Tim. 6, Rev. 3, 1. d Luke 22, $0. 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. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with 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. 6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD, O ye fch. 45, house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, ¡ Pet. 4, 3 Acts 21, 28. 1 Deut. 10, 16. Jer. 4, 4. g 7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary, 23 And they shall teach my people the difference 1 Tim. 3, 2, strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircum-between the holy and profane, and cause them to cised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, discern between the unclean and the clean. Mal. 1,12 even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, because of all your abominations. Phil. 2, 21. in Ps. 50, 16. & 93, 5. Acts 3, 41. 8 And ye have not kept the 'charge of my holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. 8. 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judg- i Deut 17, ments and they shall keep my laws and my stat- 2 Chron. utes in all mine assemblics; and they shall hallow 19, 10, 11. my sabbaths. 25 And they shall come at no dead person to dethemselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister, that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves. 26 And after he is cleansed they shall reckon unto him seven days. 9 Thus saith the Lord GOD, "No stranger, uncir-file cumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall Tas, enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. ch. 10, 46. & 43, 19. ver. 13, 15. 10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray 1 Sam. 2, away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. p 1 Chr. 23, verve 14. cl. 14, 3, 4. 27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctua ry, he shall offer his sin-offering, saith the Lord Gou 11 Yet they shall be P ministers in my sanctuary, 28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance, having charge at the gates of the house, and minis- "I am their inheritance and ye shall give them no m Mat. 10 tering to the house: they shall slay the burnt-offer-possession in Israel; I am their possession. ing and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them before 1915. their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall Hosea 5, 1. into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. 13 And they shall not come near unto me to do the Mat. 23, 25 1 Tim. 3, 3 a Ps. 16, 5. Mat. 25, 34. b Ex. 29, 27. Num. 15,19. Ordinances for the prince, and people. 16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel. EZEKIEL. 1 The portion of land for the sanctuary, 6 for the city, 7 and MOR a b Before CHRIST 574. & 15, 5. 17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burntofferings, and meat-offerings, and drink-offerings, in pla. 16, 1. the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sab- John 1,16 baths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he Rom. 11 shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meat-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, 21. to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. OREOVER, wheu ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, a holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand Rom. 12. 1. reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This 1 Pet. 2, 5 shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. c ch. 48, 18. 2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth,tuary: square round about; and fifty cubits. round about for the suburbs thereof. Heb. 12, 22, 21 Heb. holy of holiness es, Ex. 26, 33. Lev 4, 6. d ch. 48, 13. e ch. 40, 2. (Isa. 9, 6, 7. & 53, 12. Rev. 11, 15. 3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 96. Gal. 3, 13 18 Thus saith the Lord GOD, In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanc-Gal. 8, 23. 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. & 4, 1, 5. Heb. 9, 8. 20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is. t Mat. 16, simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. 19. & 18, 13. John 20, 23. 10. 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near 21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the Rom. 14, 4, to minister unto the LORD; and it shall be a place month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. 5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, 22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Le-himself, and for all the people of the land, ta bullock + Heb. vites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a sin-offering. "for a possession for twenty chambers. 6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one chap. 44,3. side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the posses714sion of the city, from the west side westward, and Phil. 29. from the east side eastward; and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. 10 Ye shall have "just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. 12 And the shekel shall be twenty "gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels shall be your maneh. 13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley: 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths are a homier: 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two 2727 hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel, for a meat-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for peaceofferings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD. 2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priest shall prepare his burnt- di Pet. 1, & offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go forth'; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship (John 10. at the door of this gate before the LORD, in the 7.& 14,8 sabbaths, and in the new moons. e Mat. 25, 10, 11, 12. 1 Cor. 3, 7, 11. 4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer g Num, 20, unto the LORD in the sabbath-day shall be six,10 lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. Ic 5 And the meat-offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat-offering for the lambs tas het Heb, the shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. hand, 6 And in the day of the new noon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and "six lambs, and Num. 29, a ram: they shall be without blemish gift of his ver. 7, 11. 11. & 8. & 7 And he shall prepare a meat-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram; and for the 1.6, 11 lambs according 'as his hand shall attain unto, and 14, 21. έa hin of oil to an ephah. 8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in 25, Nuin. 6, 21. verse 5. The prince's inheritance. Before CHRIST 32. 574. k Luke 17, Gal. 4, 9. Phil. i, 13. 2 Peter 2, 20, 21. 18. CHAPTER XLVII. by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go { 9 But when the people of the land shall come be 1 The vision of the holy waters; 6 the virtue of them....13 The 574. borders of the land, &c. Zech. 14, & 49. b Ps. 46, 4. & 35, 7. fore the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth AFTERWARD he brought me again unto the 10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, 'shall go in ; and when they go forth, shall go Eph. 3, 12, forth. Heb. 5, 6. & 4, 16. & 10, 19. 11 And in the feasts, and in the solemnities, the meat-offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an 1 John 2, 2 ephah to a ram; and to the lambs "as he is able to Deut. 16, give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. m 10. verses 5, 7. 2 Cor. 8, 12. Heb. morning by morning Num. 28, 3, 4. 12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt-offering or peace-offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings as he did on the sabbathday: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt-offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish; thou shalt prepare it † every morning. 14 And thou shalt prepare a meat-offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the Heb. 9, 26. third part of a hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat-offering continually, by a perpetual ordinance, unto the LORD. 7 Now, when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side (Psal 1, & and on the other. 8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea; which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. & 92, 12. Rev. 22, 1. 9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live; and there shall be a very great P.7 multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. & 13, 47. 10 And it shall come to pass, that the "fishers shall ha 18 Moreover, the prince shall not take of the peo-stand upon it, from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; John 8, 35. ple's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out they shall be a place to spread forth nets: their fish of their possession; but he shall give his sons inher- shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the itance out of his own possession; that my people great sea, exceeding many. be not scattered every man from his possession. & 16, 15. Heb. 1, 2. 19 1 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward. 20 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall † boil the trespass-offering and the the spa sin-offering, where they shall bake the meat-offering; } ch. 44 19 that they bear them not out into the outer court, to Act 20, 28. sanctify the people. 12 And by the river, upon the bank thereof, on this 2 Cor.2, 1 side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth 'new fruit according to his months, because their waters they Rev. 22, 2 issued out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. m lev. 28 13 I Thus saith the Lord GOD, This shall be the border whereby ye shall inherit the land, according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two 21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court,and 23 And there was a row of building round about in 1 Tim. 3, 13. them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling-places under the rows round about. 14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; concerning the which I lifted up my hand to give it unto your fathers; and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. 2 n Ps. 16, 5. Col. 1, 12 Acts 10. & Col. 3, 11. Gal. 3, 23. 1 Peter 2 9, 10 p Num. 34 |