THE
BOOK OF THE PROPHET
Ezekiel
Part
2 (Chapters 25-48)
25:1:
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
25:2:
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
25:3:
And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned;
and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house
of Judah, when they went into captivity;
25:4:
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession,
and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee:
they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
25:5:
And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace
for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
25:6:
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and
stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against
the land of Israel;
25:7:
Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver
thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people,
and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee;
and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
25:8:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the
house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
25:9:
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his
cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth,
Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
25:10:
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession,
that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
25:11:
And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
25:12:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house
of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself
upon them;
25:13:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon
Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate
from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
25:14:
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel:
and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury;
and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
25:15:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge,
and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the
old hatred;
25:16:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand
upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the
remnant of the sea coast.
25:17:
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and
they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon
them.
26:1:
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month,
that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
26:2:
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is
broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall
be replenished, now she is laid waste:
26:3:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus,
and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth
his waves to come up.
26:4:
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I
will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
26:5:
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to
the nations.
26:6:
And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
26:7:
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with
chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
26:8:
He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make
a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler
against thee.
26:9:
And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he
shall break down thy towers.
26:10:
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy
walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and
of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into
a city wherein is made a breach.
26:11:
With
the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay
thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the
ground.
26:12:
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise:
and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and
they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the
water.
26:13:
And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy
harps shall be no more heard.
26:14:
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread
nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD.
26:15:
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound
of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst
of thee?
26:16:
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and
lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall
clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall
tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
26:17:
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art
thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city,
which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their
terror to be on all that haunt it!
26:18:
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that
are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
26:19:
For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like
the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon
thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
26:20:
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with
the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth,
in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou
be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
26:21:
I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought
for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
27:1:
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
27:2:
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
27:3:
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which
art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O
Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
27:4:
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy
beauty.
27:5:
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken
cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
27:6:
Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites
have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
27:7:
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest
forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that
which covered thee.
27:8:
The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus,
that were in thee, were thy pilots.
27:9:
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers:
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy
merchandise.
27:10:
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war:
they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
27:11:
The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the
Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls
round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
27:12:
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches;
with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
27:13:
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons
of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
27:14:
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen
and mules.
27:15:
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of
thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
27:16:
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making:
they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and
fine linen, and coral, and agate.
27:17:
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in
thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
27:18:
Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making,
for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
27:19:
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron,
cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
27:20:
Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
27:21:
Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs,
and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
27:22:
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied
in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and
gold.
27:23:
Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assur, and Chilmad,
were thy merchants.
27:24:
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered
work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar,
among thy merchandise.
27:25:
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished,
and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
27:26:
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken
thee in the midst of the seas.
27:27:
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots,
thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war,
that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee,
shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
27:28:
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
27:29:
And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea,
shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
27:30:
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly,
and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in
the ashes:
27:31:
And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with
sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter
wailing.
27:32:
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament
over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst
of the sea?
27:33:
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou
didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and
of thy merchandise.
27:34:
In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the
waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
27:35:
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their
kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
27:36:
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror,
and never shalt be any more.
28:1:
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
28:2:
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the
seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
28:3:
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide
from thee:
28:4:
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
28:5:
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
28:6:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as
the heart of God;
28:7:
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the
nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,
and they shall defile thy brightness.
28:8:
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of
them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
28:9:
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt
be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
28:10:
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
28:11:
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
28:12:
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto
him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty.
28:13:
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy
covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and
the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the
day that thou wast created.
28:14:
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou
wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the
midst of the stones of fire.
28:15:
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee.
28:16:
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee
with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane
out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
28:17:
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will
lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
28:18:
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities,
by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from
the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes
upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
28:19:
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou
shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
28:20:
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
28:21:
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
28:22:
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and
I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am
the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified
in her.
28:23:
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the
wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every
side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
28:24:
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor
any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them;
and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
28:25:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel
from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified
in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land
that I have given to my servant Jacob.
28:26:
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant
vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed
judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD their God.
29:1:
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month,
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
29:2:
Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against
him, and against all Egypt:
29:3:
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh
king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers,
which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
29:4:
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers
to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of
thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
29:5:
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish
of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be
brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts
of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
29:6:
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because
they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
29:7:
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all
their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest
all their loins to be at a stand.
29:8:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee,
and cut off man and beast out of thee.
29:9:
And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know
that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have
made it.
29:10:
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will
make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene
even unto the border of Ethiopia.
29:11:
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through
it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
29:12:
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries
that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste
shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the
nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
29:13:
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the
Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:
29:14:
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return
into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall
be there a base kingdom.
29:15:
It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any
more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more
rule over the nations.
29:16:
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth
their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they
shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
29:17:
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month,
in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
29:18:
Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great
service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was
peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that
he had served against it:
29:19:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt
unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and
take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
29:20:
I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against
it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.
29:21:
In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth,
and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and
they shall know that I am the LORD.
30:1:
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
30:2:
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth
the day
30:3:
For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it
shall be the time of the heathen.
30:4:
And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia,
when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude,
and her foundations shall be broken down.
30:5:
Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and
the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
30:6:
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride
of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in
it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
30:7:
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,
and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
30:8:
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt,
and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
30:9:
In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of
Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
30:10:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease
by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
30:11:
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought
to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and
fill the land with the slain.
30:12:
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the
wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the
hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
30:13:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause
their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince
of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
30:14:
And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute
judgments in No.
30:15:
And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut
off the multitude of No.
30:16:
And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be
rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
30:17:
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these
cities shall go into captivity.
30:18:
At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there
the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as
for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
30:19:
Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
30:20:
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
30:21:
Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it
shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make
it strong to hold the sword.
30:22:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken;
and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
30:23:
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.
30:24:
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword
in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before
him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
30:25:
But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of
Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch
it out upon the land of Egypt.
30:26:
And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among
the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
31:1:
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
31:2:
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom
art thou like in thy greatness?
31:3:
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with
a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick
boughs.
31:4:
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers
running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all
the trees of the field.
31:5:
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and
his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the
multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
31:6:
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches
did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his
shadow dwelt all great nations.
31:7:
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his
root was by great waters.
31:8:
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were
not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches;
nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
31:9:
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the
trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
31:10:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself
in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;
31:11:
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen;
he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
31:12:
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have
left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people
of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
31:13:
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts
of the field shall be upon his branches:
31:14:
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for
their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are
all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst
of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
31:15:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused
a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof,
and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him,
and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
31:16:
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down
to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden,
the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted
in the nether parts of the earth.
31:17:
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the
sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst
of the heathen.
31:18:
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of
Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether
parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with
them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.
32:1:
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
32:2:
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto
him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale
in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the
waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
32:3:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with
a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
32:4:
Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open
field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee,
and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
32:5:
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with
thy height.
32:6:
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to
the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
32:7:
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not
give her light.
32:8:
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness
upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
32:9:
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction
among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
32:10:
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly
afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall
tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy
fall.
32:11:
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come
upon thee.
32:12:
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible
of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and
all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
32:13:
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters;
neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts
trouble them.
32:14:
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like
oil, saith the Lord GOD.
32:15:
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be
destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that
dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
32:16:
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters
of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt,
and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
32:17:
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month,
that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
32:18:
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her,
and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth,
with them that go down into the pit.
32:19:
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
32:20:
They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is
delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
32:21:
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell
with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain
by the sword.
32:22:
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them
slain, fallen by the sword:
32:23:
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round
about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror
in the land of the living.
32:24:
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them
slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the
nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the
living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
32:25:
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude:
her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the
sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have
they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in
the midst of them that be slain.
32:26:
There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about
him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused
their terror in the land of the living.
32:27:
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised,
which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid
their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their
bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
32:28:
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt
lie with them that are slain with the sword.
32:29:
There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are
laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised,
and with them that go down to the pit.
32:30:
There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians,
which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed
of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the
sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
32:31:
Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude,
even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
32:32:
For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be
laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the
sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
33:1:
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
33:2:
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When
I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of
their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
33:3:
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and
warn the people;
33:4:
Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning;
if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
33:5:
He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall
be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
33:6:
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the
people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among
them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at
the watchman's hand.
33:7:
So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel;
therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
33:8:
When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou
dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die
in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
33:9:
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he
do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered
thy soul.
33:10:
Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak,
saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away
in them, how should we then live?
33:11:
Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn
ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
33:12:
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness
of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression:
as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day
that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able
to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
33:13:
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust
to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses
shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he
shall die for it.
33:14:
Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from
his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
33:15:
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in
the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
33:16:
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he
hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
33:17:
Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but
as for them, their way is not equal.
33:18:
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity,
he shall even die thereby.
33:19:
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall live thereby.
33:20:
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will
judge you every one after his ways.
33:21:
And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth
month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of
Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
33:22:
Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was
escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning;
and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
33:23:
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
33:24:
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak,
saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the
land is given us for inheritance.
33:25:
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood,
and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess
the land?
33:26:
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one
his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
33:27:
Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they
that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the
open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in
the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
33:28:
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall
cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass
through.
33:29:
Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most
desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
33:30:
Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against
thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another,
every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the
word that cometh forth from the LORD.
33:31:
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee
as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with
their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
33:32:
And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant
voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but
they do them not.
33:33:
And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know
that a prophet hath been among them.
34:1:
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
34:2:
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds
of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
34:3:
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are
fed: but ye feed not the flock.
34:4:
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which
was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have
ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that
which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
34:5:
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became
meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
34:6:
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill:
yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did
search or seek after them.
34:7:
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
34:8:
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and
my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no
shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds
fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
34:9:
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
34:10:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will
require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the
flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will
deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
34:11:
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep,
and seek them out.
34:12:
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep
that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them
out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark
day.
34:13:
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries,
and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains
of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
34:14:
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel
shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat
pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
34:15:
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord
GOD.
34:16:
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven
away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that
which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed
them with judgment.
34:17:
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between
cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
34:18:
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but
ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to
have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
34:19:
And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet;
and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
34:20:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge
between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
34:21:
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the
diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
34:22:
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I
will judge between cattle and cattle.
34:23:
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even
my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
34:24:
And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them;
I the LORD have spoken it.
34:25:
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil
beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness,
and sleep in the woods.
34:26:
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and
I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers
of blessing.
34:27:
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield
her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that
I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered
them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
34:28:
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast
of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make
them afraid.
34:29:
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more
consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen
any more.
34:30:
Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they,
even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
34:31:
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith
the Lord GOD.
35:1:
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
35:2:
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
35:3:
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against
thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee
most desolate.
35:4:
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt
know that I am the LORD.
35:5:
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the
children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity,
in the time that their iniquity had an end:
35:6:
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood,
and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood
shall pursue thee.
35:7:
Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that
passeth out and him that returneth.
35:8:
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in
thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with
the sword.
35:9:
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return:
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
35:10:
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall
be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
35:11:
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine
anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred
against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged
thee.
35:12:
And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies
which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are
laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
35:13:
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your
words against me: I have heard them.
35:14:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee
desolate.
35:15:
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because
it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount
Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the
LORD.
36:1:
Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say,
Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
36:2:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha,
even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
36:3:
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have
made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be
a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the
lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
36:4:
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus
saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and
to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken,
which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are
round about;
36:5:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have
I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which
have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their
heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
36:6:
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:
36:7:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the
heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
36:8:
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and
yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
36:9:
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled
and sown:
36:10:
And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of
it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
36:11:
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.
36:12:
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.
36:13:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest
up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
36:14:
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any
more, saith the Lord GOD.
36:15:
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more,
neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt
thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
36:16:
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
36:17:
Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled
it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the
uncleanness of a removed woman.
36:18:
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon
the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
36:19:
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through
the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged
them.
36:20:
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned
my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD,
and are gone forth out of his land.
36:21:
But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned
among the heathen, whither they went.
36:22:
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not
this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake,
which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
36:23:
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know
that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you
before their eyes.
36:24:
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries,
and will bring you into your own land.
36:25:
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from
all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
36:26:
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 an heart of flesh.
36:27:
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.
36:28:
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall
be my people, and I will be your God.
36:29:
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the
corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
36:30:
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field,
that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
36:31:
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not
good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities
and for your abominations.
36:32:
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you:
be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
36:33:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from
all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the
wastes shall be builded.
36:34:
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight
of all that passed by.
36:35:
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.
36:36:
Then the heathen that are left round about 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.
36:37:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house
of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
36:38:
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall
the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that
I am the LORD.
37:1:
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the
LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
37:2:
And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very
many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
37:3:
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered,
O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
37:4:
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O
ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
37:5:
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to
enter into you, and ye shall live:
37:6:
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.
37:7:
So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise,
and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
37:8:
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.
37:9:
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and
say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath,
and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
37:10:
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.
37:11:
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut
off for our parts.
37:12:
Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold,
O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your
graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
37:13:
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O
my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
37:14:
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you
in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and
performed it, saith the LORD.
37:15:
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
37:16:
Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For
Judah, and for the children 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:
37:17:
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one
in thine hand.
37:18:
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt
thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
37:19:
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows,
and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them
one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
37:20:
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their
eyes.
37:21:
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children
of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather
them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
37:22:
And I will make them one nation 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:
37:23:
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with
their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will
save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and
will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
37:24:
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,
and do them.
37:25:
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant,
wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they,
and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant
David shall be their prince for ever.
37:26:
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting
covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will
set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
37:27:
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.
37:28:
And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
38:1:
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
38:2:
Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince
of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
38:3:
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the
chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
38:4:
And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring
thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed
with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields,
all of them handling swords:
38:5:
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
38:6:
Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters,
and all his bands: and many people with thee.
38:7:
Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that
are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
38:8:
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come
into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out
of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always
waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell
safely all of them.
38:9:
Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to
cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
38:10:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time
shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
38:11:
And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will
go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without
walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
38:12:
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate
places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out
of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst
of the land.
38:13:
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions
thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou
gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to
take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
38:14:
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 know
it?
38:15:
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
a mighty army:
38:16:
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, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee,
O Gog, before their eyes.
38:17:
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 many
years that I would bring thee against them?
38:18:
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.
38:19:
For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in
that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
38:20:
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts
of the field, 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 every wall shall fall to the ground.
38:21:
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith
the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
38:22:
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will
rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with
him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
38:23:
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in
the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
39:1:
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech
and Tubal:
39:2:
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:
39:3:
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows
to fall out of thy right hand.
39:4:
Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,
and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds
of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
39:5:
Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
GOD.
39:6:
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.
39:7:
So 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.
39:8:
Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day
whereof I have spoken.
39:9:
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 handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn
them with fire seven years:
39:10:
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 spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord GOD.
39:11:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place
there of graves in Israel, the 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 shall call it The valley
of Hamon-gog.
39:12:
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they
may cleanse the land.
39:13:
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.
39:14:
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.
39:15:
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.
39:16:
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse
the land.
39:17:
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 blood.
39:18:
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 Bashan.
39:19:
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.
39:20:
Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty
men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
39:21:
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see
my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
39:22:
So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that
day and forward.
39:23:
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity
for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I
my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell
they all by the sword.
39:24:
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have
I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
39:25:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity
of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous
for my holy name;
39:26:
After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby
they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land,
and none made them afraid.
39:27:
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;
39:28:
Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which cause them to
be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto
their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
39:29:
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my
spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
40:1:
In 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 selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon
me, and brought me thither.
40:2:
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.
40:3:
And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance
was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and
a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
40:4:
And the man said unto me, 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:
declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
40:5:
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 an hand breadth:
so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one
reed.
40:6:
Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, 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.
40:7:
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.
40:8:
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.
40:9:
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof,
two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
40:10:
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 on that side.
40:11:
And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the
length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
40:12:
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.
40:13:
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.
40:14:
He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court
round about the gate.
40:15:
And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch
of the inner gate were fifty cubits.
40:16:
And there were narrow windows to the little 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 trees.
40:17:
Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers,
and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon
the pavement.
40:18:
And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the
gates was the lower pavement.
40:19:
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto
the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and
northward.
40:20:
And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured
the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.
40:21:
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.
40:22:
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.
40:23:
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 an hundred cubits.
40:24:
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.
40:25:
And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like
those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
40:26:
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
side, upon the posts thereof.
40:27:
And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured
from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.
40:28:
And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured
the south gate according to these measures;
40:29:
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.
40:30:
And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits
broad.
40:31:
And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were
upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.
40:32:
And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured
the gate according to these measures.
40:33:
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.
40:34:
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.
40:35:
And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these
measures;
40:36:
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
breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:37:
And the posts thereof were toward the utter 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.
40:38:
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates,
where they washed the burnt offering.
40:39:
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 trespass offering.
40:40:
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.
40:41:
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.
40:42:
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.
40:43:
And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the
tables was the flesh of the offering.
40:44:
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.
40:45:
And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south,
is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.
40:46:
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.
40:47:
So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits
broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.
40:48:
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.
40:49:
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 were
pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
41:1:
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.
41:2:
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.
41:3:
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.
41:4:
So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty
cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.
41:5:
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.
41:6:
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.
41:7:
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.
41:8:
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the
side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
41:9:
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.
41:10:
And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about
the house on every side.
41:11:
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.
41:12:
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.
41:13:
So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place,
and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
41:14:
Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward
the east, an hundred cubits.
41:15:
And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place
which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the
other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of
the court;
41:16:
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on
their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about,
and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
41:17:
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by
all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
41:18:
And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was
between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
41:19:
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.
41:20:
From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made,
and on the wall of the temple.
41:21:
The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the
appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.
41:22:
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.
41:23:
And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
41:24:
And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for
the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
41:25:
And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and
palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks
upon the face of the porch without.
41:26:
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the
other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the
house, and thick planks.
42:1:
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north:
and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place,
and which was before the building toward the north.
42:2:
Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth
was fifty cubits.
42:3:
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over
against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against
gallery in three stories.
42:4:
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way
of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
42:5:
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than
these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
42:6:
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.
42:7:
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.
42:8:
For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits:
and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.
42:9:
And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth
into them from the utter court.
42:10:
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.
42:11:
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.
42:12:
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.
42:13:
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.
42:14:
When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy
place into the utter 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.
42:15:
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.
42:16:
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring reed round about.
42:17:
He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed
round about.
42:18:
He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
42:19:
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with
the measuring reed.
42:20:
He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred
reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary
and the profane place.
43:1:
Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward
the east:
43:2:
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east:
and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with
his glory.
43:3:
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.
43:4:
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east.
43:5:
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold,
the glory of the LORD filled the house.
43:6:
And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by
me.
43:7:
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 no more
defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases
of their kings in their high places
43:8:
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by
my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy
name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed
them in mine anger.
43:9:
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.
43:10:
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.
43:11:
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.
43:12:
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit
thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the
house.
43:13:
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The 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 about
shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
43:14:
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.
43:15:
So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall
be four horns.
43:16:
And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the
four squares thereof.
43:17:
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.
43:18:
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.
43:19:
And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok,
which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young
bullock for a sin offering.
43:20:
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.
43:21:
Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn
it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
43:22:
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.
43:23:
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.
43:24:
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.
43:25:
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.
43:26:
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate
themselves.
43:27:
And when these days are expired, it shall be, 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.
44:1:
Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which
looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
44:2:
Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened,
and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath
entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
44:3:
It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it 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.
44:4:
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.
44:5:
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.
44:6:
And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your
abominations,
44:7:
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart,
and uncircumcised in 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.
44:8:
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers
of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
44:9:
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.
44:10:
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.
44:11:
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.
44:12:
Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and 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.
44:13:
And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto
me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place:
but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have
committed.
44:14:
But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service
thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
44:15:
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 minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to
offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
44:16:
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table,
to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
44:17:
And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of 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.
44:18:
They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches
upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth
sweat.
44:19:
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.
44:20:
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long;
they shall only poll their heads.
44:21:
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
44:22:
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
that had a priest before.
44:23:
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
44:24:
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it
according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes
in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
44:25:
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: 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.
44:26:
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
44:27:
And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court,
to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the
Lord GOD.
44:28:
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.
44:29:
They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass
offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
44:30:
And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation
of all, of every sort of your oblations, 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.
44:31:
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn,
whether it be fowl or beast.
45:1:
Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall
offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length
shall be the 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.
45:2:
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five
hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for
the suburbs thereof.
45:3:
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.
45:4:
The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of
the
sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall
be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
45:5:
And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth,
shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves,
for a possession for twenty chambers.
45:6:
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.
45:7:
And a portion shall be for the prince on the one 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 possession
of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward:
and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west
border unto the east border.
45:8:
In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no
more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the
house of Israel according to their tribes.
45:9:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove
violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions
from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
45:10:
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. I
45:11:
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain
the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the
measure thereof shall be after the homer.
45:12:
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty
shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your manneh.
45:13:
This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of
an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer
of barley:
45:14:
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth
part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten
baths are an homer:
45:15:
And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures
of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace
offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
45:16:
All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.
45:17:
And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings,
and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths,
in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering,
and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings,
to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
45:18:
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 sanctuary:
45:19:
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.
45:20:
And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth,
and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.
45:21:
In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the
passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
45:22:
And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the
people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
45:23:
And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD,
seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and
a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
45:24:
And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an
ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
45:25:
In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the
like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according
to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according
to the oil.
46:1:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward
the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall
be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
46:2:
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 priests shall prepare
his burnt 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.
46:3:
Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate
before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
46:4:
And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the
sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
46:5:
And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering
for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
46:6:
And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish,
and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.
46:7:
And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah
for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and
an hin of oil to an ephah.
46:8:
And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch
of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
46:9:
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn
feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall
go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of
the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not
return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over
against it.
46:10:
And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and
when they go forth, shall go forth.
46:11:
And in the feast and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah
to a bullock, and ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give,
and an hin of oil to an ephah.
46:12:
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 sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after
his going forth one shall shut the gate.
46:13:
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.
46:14:
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth
part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the
fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the
LORD.
46:15:
Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every
morning for a continual burnt offering.
46:16:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons,
the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession
by inheritance.
46:17:
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it
shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince:
but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.
46:18:
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression,
to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance
out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from
his possession.
46:19:
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.
46:20:
Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the
trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat
offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify
the people.
46:21:
Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by
the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court
there was a court.
46:22:
In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits
long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
46:23:
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four,
and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
46:24:
Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the
ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
47:1:
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold,
waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the
forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down
from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
47:2:
Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about
the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and,
behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
47:3:
And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he
measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters
were to the ancles.
47:4:
Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters
were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through;
the waters were to the loins.
47:5:
Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass
over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could
not be passed over.
47:6:
And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me,
and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
47:7:
Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many
trees on the one side and on the other.
47:8:
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.
47:9:
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 multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they
shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
47:10:
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi
even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their
fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding
many.
47:11:
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed;
they shall be given to salt.
47:12:
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this 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 issued out of the sanctuary: and
the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
47:13:
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
portions.
47:14:
And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I
lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall
unto you for inheritance.
47:15:
And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the
great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
47:16:
Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and
the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.
47:17:
And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus,
and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north
side.
47:18:
And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and
from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto
the east sea. And this is the east side.
47:19:
And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in
Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
47:20:
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come
over against Hamath. This is the west side.
47:21:
So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.
47:22:
And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance
unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget
children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among
the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the
tribes of Israel.
47:23:
And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth,
there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
48:1:
Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast
of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of
Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east
and west; a portion for Dan.
48:2:
And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion
for Asher.
48:3:
And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side,
a portion for Naphtali.
48:4:
And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a
portion for Manasseh.
48:5:
And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a
portion for Ephraim.
48:6:
And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side,
a portion for Reuben.
48:7:
And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion
for Judah.
48:8:
And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall
be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds
in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side
unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
48:9:
The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty
thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.
48:10:
And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward
the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand
in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the
south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD
shall be in the midst thereof.
48:11:
It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which
have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel
went astray, as the Levites went astray.
48:12:
And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing
most holy by the border of the Levites.
48:13:
And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five
and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length
shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
48:14:
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits
of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.
48:15:
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five
and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling,
and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
48:16:
And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and
five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on
the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand
and five hundred.
48:17:
And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty,
and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred
and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.
48:18:
And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion
shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall
be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof
shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
48:19:
And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
48:20:
All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand:
ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the
city.
48:21:
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other
of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the
five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward
over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over
against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation;
and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
48:22:
Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of
the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the
border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.
48:23:
As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin
shall have a portion.
48:24:
And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon
shall have a portion.
48:25:
And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar
a portion.
48:26:
And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun
a portion.
48:27:
And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad
a portion.
48:28:
And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall
be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river
toward the great sea.
48:29:
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel
for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
48:30:
And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand
and five hundred measures.
48:31:
And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel:
three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate
of Levi.
48:32:
And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and
one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.
48:33:
And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three
gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.
48:34:
At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates;
one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
48:35:
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city
from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
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