31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are o John 10, men, and I am your P God, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XXXV. p John 8, 28. a ch. 6, 2. 3. Israel comforted, &c. CHRIST swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be Before e d Obadiah, verse 11. e Ps. 44, 15 Lam. 2, 15. 4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the & 140, 11. The judgment of mount Seir for their hatred of Israel. mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the OREOVER, the word of the LORD came un-valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that to me, saying, are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to MOR f Deut. 4, ch. 5, 15. 2 Son of man, set thy face against "mount Seir, the residue of the heathen that are round about; Gen 36, and prophesy against it, 5 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in 3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Be-the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the 24 emos 1, hold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make which have appointed my land into their possession. 68, 10 thee most desolate. with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. Hosea 9, 3 6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: h Ps. 123, 3, 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lift- h. 34, 29. ed up my hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame. 11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men. 13 Thus saith the Lord GoD; Because they say Jer. 15.7. unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast ch. 37, 25. bereaved thy nations; 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, nei- 32 ther bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God. ch. 57, 22 15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the Is. 25, 8. shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear" the reproach of the people any more, neither u Isa. 49, shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith Zepb. 3, 12 the Lord GOD. 16 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, The blessings of Christ's kingdom. e CHAPTER XXXVII. C The resurrection of dry bones. 21 I But I had pity for my holy name, which the ; me down in the midst of the valley which was full Before cir. 587. house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, of bones, whither they went. Before CHRIST e Psal. 106, 7, 8. verse 22. 22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus ch. 2014 saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O f Ps. 115, 1. house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye 25 1 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, Heb. 3, 14 and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 1 Pet. 1, 2, 19. 1 ch. 37, 23. Zech. 13, 1, m Jer. 32, 39. ch. 11, 19. a Jer. 10,25. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the Stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and "cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to Gen. 17,1. your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. Deut. 7, 6. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these John 6,4, bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, 'Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, "O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. e Gen. 23, 1 Cor. 18, 19. Jer 1, 10. g ch. 36, 1 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye verses shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 10. 44. k chap. 38, 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as Acts 10, I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 19. 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. D 10. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the 'wind, Acts 2,2 prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Come from the "four winds, O breath, m chap. 5, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied, as he commanded me, and the 29 I will also save you from all your unclean-breath came into them, and they lived, and stood Rev. 11, nesses and I will call for the corn, and will in-up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. crease it, and lay no famine upon you. 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the P whole house of Israel: behold they say, Our pverses 16, bones are dried, and our hope is lost; we are cut Hosen 1, 11. off for our parts. 31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, Hosea 14, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe Jer. 31, 18 yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities, and for your abominations. & 50, 4. ■ verse 22. Dan. 32" Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord Rom. 1128. GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. 33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I Jer. 3, 18. will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. & 23, 8. ch. 37, 21. Amos 3, 14, 15. y verse 9. z P1 126, 2. a chap. 28, 13 X 34 And the desolate land shall be 'tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. a 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste, and desolate, and ruined cities, are become fenced, and are inhabited. b 36 Then the heathen, that are left round about Amos 47. you, shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it. Chap. 27, 24 c 37 Thus saith the Lord GOD, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in Rom. 121. her solemn feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am the LORD. 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children x2 Chron. of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one stick; y and they shall become one in thy hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GoD, Be-a ch. %, 1. hold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the 1 Chr. hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, Mat. 25, 19. and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes. Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among The malice of Gog. Before CHRIST Before CHRIST the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather Punwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, cir. 587. them on every side, and bring them into their own that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, cir. 587. land: and having neither bars nor gates, d verse 12. Gral. 4,25, 26. e Ex. 14, 3. 24, 13. 22 And I will make them one nation in the land { 12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn sal. 10, 9. Heb. 12, 22. upon the mountains of Israel; and 'one king shall thy hand upon the desolate places that are now inhab- 9 2 Kings be king to them all and they shall be no more two ited, and upon the people that are gathered out of ch. 29, 19 ver. 14, 15, nations, neither shall they be divided into two king-the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, doms any more at all: that dwell in the midst of the land. e Isa. 11, 13. Hosen 1, 11. f John 10, 10. 1 Tim. 6, 15. 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more Rev.,15 with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them Isaiah 49, out of all their dwelling-places wherein they have Amos 9, 14. sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be "my b Hosea 1, people, and I will be their God. 12. 24 And David my servant shall be king over them: and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, John 10, and do them. Hosea 3, 5. 16. 26 Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: m chap. 36, and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them; yea, I chap. 11, will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD Php. 20, do P sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in Thess. 5, the midst of them for evermore. 14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD, In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not Exod. 14, know it? 15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and " many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and mighty army : X S, 4. Zecb. 2, 5, 8. 2 2. 3. a Chr. 20, P. 2, 1, 2 16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, Dan. 12,1. that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. y Ex. 14, 4. Lev. 10, 3 ch.28, 22 z Isa. 25, 10. Dan. 12, 1. 20. 17 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days & 66, 24. many years, that I would bring thee against them? Zech. 14, 1 18 And it shall come to pass at the same time, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. a Psal. 78, 19 For in my jealousy, and in the fire of my wrath, have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a 1 Zork, 14 great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creep{ing things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at P. 21, 2, my presence; and the mountains shall be thrown Nah. 1, 4,6 down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. e 10. e Judg. 7, 22. 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into Rev. 16, 18 thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with 21 And I will "call for a sword against him through- d Ps. 75, & all sorts of armour, even a great company with buck-out all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every lers and shields, all of thein handling swords: man's sword shall be against his brother. 5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of 22 And I will plead against him with pestilence 2 Chron. 20 them with shield and helmet: and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon e Gen. 10, 2. 6 e Gomer, and all his bands; the house of 'To-his bands, and upon the many people that are with chap. 27, garmah of the north quarters, and all his bands; and him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire many people with thee. and brimstone. Ps. 72, 10. ebap. 58, 13. h Lev. 18, chap. 20, 9. 21. i Ps. 12, 6. Rev. 18, 2. k 1 Sam. 26, 10. Ps. 37, 13. 1 Ps. 111,2, Isa. 66, 24. Mal. 1, 5. 3. m Rev. 19, 20. 7 Se will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them "pollute my holy name any more; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the hand-staves and the spears, and they shall m burn them with fire seven years; 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall n Mat. 7,2. " spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God. Rev. 13, 10. & 18, 6. n 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog, a place there of graves in Israel, the over. 14,15. valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog, and all his multitude; and they That shall call it, The valley of || Hamon-gog. The multitude of Gog. p Deat. 21, 23. 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 GOD. 14 And they shall 'sever out men of continual employment, passing through 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 man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. 16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. 17 1 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 mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink Jer. 12,9. blood. Jer 46, 10 Rev. 19, 17. t Isa. 28, 6. verse 3. CHRIST cir. 587. Of Ezekiel's vision. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Before the LORD their God from that day and forward. 23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their "iniquity: because b 2 Chr. 15 they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face 2 from them, and gave them into the hand of their Lam. 3, 33. enemies; so fell they all by the sword. Isa. 10, 5. c Deut. 18, 17. 24 According to their uncleanness, and according P. 27, to their transgressions, have I done unto them, and Isa. 59, i. hid my face from them. + Hosea 3, 25 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, "Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy 5.& 10. 8. upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous ellos. 1, 10. for my holy name; e Rom. 11, 25. f Lev. 5, 1. 26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their 'trespasses, whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, & 26, 40. and none made them afraid. 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; g ch. 38, 16. 28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their Jer. 3, 18. own land, and have left none of them any more there. 29 Neither will I hide my face any more from i el. 37, 25, them: for I have poured out my Spirit upon the Joel 2,24. house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XL. 4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold h Zech. 2, 1. with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and 1 set Rev. 21, 15. thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the i Gal. 6, 18 intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou k brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. 5 And, behold, a 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 hand-breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building one reed; and the " height one reed. 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh to18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drinkward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and 1 Cor. 16 the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of measured the threshold of the gate, which was one Eph 4 12 ■ Num. 52, lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them "fatlingsreed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which 。 MAL. 7, 18 Deut. 32,14. of Bashan. was one reed broad. 7 And every little chamber was one reed long. and one reed broad; and between the little chambers g John 14, were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate, by the porch of the gate within, was one reed. 8 He measured also the porch of the gate within. one recd. 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 Joel S, A description of the gates. EZEKIEL. Before 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 on that side. CHRIST 374. 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 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 ones little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door. S 14 He made also posts 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. 16 And there were † narrow windows to the little er, closed, chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm Before CHRIST The tables, &c. of the house thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it, and in the 574. arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 30 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits 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 toward 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. d 35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures: or galleries, porches, Song 7, 5. P. 92, 12, 15. Song 7, 7, & Rev. 7, 9. d Ps. 84, 7 Hosea 6, 1. Mat. 15, 25. 1 Cor. 19, 2 10, 12. Eph. 4, 18, 14, 15. 36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round Phil. 1 9. about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth & five and twenty cubits. e 2 Pe 11. 37 And the posts thereofwere toward the outer 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. 38 And the chambers, and the entries thereof, were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the 1 Cor. 6, 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-offering, and the sin-offering, and the 'tres- Im, 55 pass-offering. 40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the 24 entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the Heb. 10, 1, other side, 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 slew their sacrifices. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt-offering, of a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a 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 hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. 4, 5. 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the g Rom. 12 side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward cor. 12, 5. the south; one at the side of the east gate, having Eph.1, 11. the prospect toward the north. 6. 1 & 5, Col. 2, 16. Num. 3, 7. 45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose h Lev. 8, 35 prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the 2 Kings 23, keepers of the charge of the house. k 9. 27. 1 Chr. 23, chap. 44, 8. i Lev. 6, 12, 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 is sons of Levi, which come 'near to the LORD to chap 44.15. minister unto him. k 1 Kings 2, 35. 47 So he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and 10. the altar that was before the house. 1 Rom. 1, 9 Eph. 1, 17. Col. 4, 12 |