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The resurrection of dry bones.

Before CHRIST cir. 587.

EZEKIEL. Israel and Judah's incorporation signi

2 And caused me to pass by them, round about: and, behold, there were Or, cham very many in the open || valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

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3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

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4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, Ŏ ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these d Ps. 104.30. bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

ver. 9.

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 ch.63 ye shall live; and ye shall know that

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2.27.& 3.17. I am the LORD.

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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.

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.

9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto Or, breath. the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; f Ps. 104.30. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

ver. 5.

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1 ch. 36. 27.

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your graves,

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.

15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

16 Moreover, thou son of man, "take thee one stick, and write upon it, For n2 Chron Judah, and for "the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of

& 15.9.& 30. 11, 18.

• See ver. 82,24.

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18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, 'Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the 2 Lord GoD; Behold, I will take 'the stick ver. 16, “ 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.

20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand 'before their eyes.

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21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GoD; Behold, I will take the c 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:

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:

23 'Neither shall they defile themselves y 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.

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.

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25 And they shall dwell in the land à cha 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.

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26 Moreover I will make a covenant 1234 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.

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27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do "sanctify Israel, when my me sanctuary shall be in the midst of them chan for evermore.

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2 Son of man, set thy face against Rev. 17 And join them one to another into Gog, the land of Magog, the chief

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3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

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 fch. 23. 12. horsemen, 'all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

Or, Phut, ch. 27. 10. & 30.5.

g Gen. 10. 2.

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and || Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: 6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house h ch. 27. 14. of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. 7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for 5. 3, 4, 4. thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

i Like Isai. 8.9, 10. Jer.

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k Gen. 49. 1. 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 nch. 36. 1, 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.

4,8.

o Jer. 23.6.

ch. 28. 26, & 34. 25. 28. ver. 11.

p Isai. 28. 2. Jer. 4. 13.

ver. 16.

9 Thou shalt ascend and come Plike a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

10 Thus saith the Lord GoD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time Or, concite shall things come into thy mind, and thou ous purpose. shalt || think an evil thought:

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11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to Jer. 19-31. 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,

s ver. 8. ! Or, confi. dently.

↑ Heb. To sport the speal, and to prey the

prey, 19.

ch. 29

t ch. 36. 34,

35

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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 +Heb.narel. goods, that dwell in the+midst of the land. 13 Sheba, and 'Dedan, and the merx ch. 27. 22, chants of Tarshish, with all the young ch. 27. 15, lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art z ch. 27. 12. thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gaa See ch. 19, thered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?" 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?

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17 Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time + by Heb. by the my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

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. 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;

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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 moun- Nab. 1. 5, 6. tains shall be thrown down, and the || steep places shall fall, and every wall, overs, shall fall to the ground.

21 And I will call for a sword against
him throughout all my mountains, saith
the Lord GOD: 1every man's sword shall
be against his brother.

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.

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pros ◄HEREFORE, * thou son of man, pro- « ch. 38. 2, 3phesy against Gog, and say, saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

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:

3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

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4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give theech. 33. 27.

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Gog's burial in Hamon-gog.

EZEKIEL.

Before CHRIST cir. 588.

The gathering together of Israel promised. unto the ravenous birds of every sort, | a great sacrifice upon the mountains of and to the beasts of the field +to be de- Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. +Heb. wing. Voured.

Before CHRIST cir. 587.

+ Heb. to deCONT.

+ Heb. the face of the field.

5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 6 And I will send a fire on Magog, ech. 38. 22. and among them that dwell || carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Amos 1.4. 1 Or, confidently.

f Ps. 72. 10. g ver. 22.

ch. 20. 39.

7" So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I Lev. 18.21. will not let them "pollute my holy name i ch. 38. 16, any more: 'and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel. 8 ¶ Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day I ch. 38. 17. 1 whereof I have spoken.

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k Rev. 16. 17. & 21.6.

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 arOr, jæve- rows, and the || handstaves, and the spears, and they shall || burn them with fire seven years:

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[Or, make a fire of them.

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 m Isai. 14.2. weapons with fire: "and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD. 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 for,mouths. shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The

That is,

The mulli Valley of || Hamon-gog.

tude of Gog.

n Deut. 21. 23. ver. 14, 16.

• ch. 28. 22.

+Heb.men of continuance.

p ver. 12.

12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, "that they may cleanse the land.

13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

14 And they shall sever out +men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, Pto cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, +Heb.build. then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.

16 And also the name of the city shall That is the be|| Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse

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1 The time, manner, and end of the vision.
6 The description of the east gate, 20 of the
north gate, 24 of the south gate, 32 of the
east gate, 35 and of the north gate. 39
Eight tables. 44 The chambers. 48 The
porch of the house.

N 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

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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 i ch.43. 10. art thou brought hither: 'declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

kich. 42. 20.

+ Heb. whose way toward

face was the the east.

+ Heb. limit, or, bound.

5 And behold a wall on the outside
of the house round about, and in the
man's hand a measuring reed of six cu-
bits long by the cubit and an hand breadth:
so he measured the breadth of the build-
ing, one reed; and the height, one reed.
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.

7 And every little chamber was one
reed long, and one reed broad; and be-
tween the little chambers were five cu-
bits; and the threshold of the gate by
the porch of the gate within was one reed.
8 He measured also the porch of the
gate within, one reed.

9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

10 And the little chambers of the gate 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.

11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

12 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

13 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.

14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

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gales of the temple. 16 And there were 1+narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise 1 1 Kings 6. to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

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| Or, gal-
leries, or,

closed.

porches.

Or, within. m Rev. 11.2.

17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were "chambers, and a pavement made for the court n 1 Kings 6. round about: thirty chambers were upon ch. 45. 5. the pavement.

18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

5.

19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an without. hundred cubits eastward and northward.

1 Or, from

face was.

20 And the gate of the outward court + that looked toward the north, het Heb. whose measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

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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 porches. the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.

23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.

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.

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.

26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were be fore them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

27¶ And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he mea sured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.

28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these

measures;

29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: 2 Y 2

The chambers and porch described.

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and there were windows in it and in the | the tables was the flesh of the offering. CHRIST arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits

broad.

30 And the arches round about were Pfive and twenty cubits long, and five cubits + broad.

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.

32¶ And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

35¶ And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these

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38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

The measures, parts, &c. of the temple. 44 ¶ And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner 1 Chron.6. court, which was at the side of the north 31 gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the Lev. 8. ||charge of the house.

Numb. 3. 28, 32, 38. & 18. S.

1 Chron. 9. 23 Chron. 1341.

13. 11. Ps

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 or, ordiof Levi, which come near to the LORD to so ver. 45. minister unto him.

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47 So he measured the court, an hun-x Kings 4. dred cubits long, and an hundred cubits 36 ch.43. broad, foursquare; and the altar that was 16. before the house.

48 ¶ And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

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49 The length of the porch was twenty yKings & 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.

CHAP. XLI. The measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple.

AFTERWARD he brought me to

the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

2 And the breadth of the || door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he mea

39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and 'the tres-sured the length thereof, forty cubits: pass offering. and the breadth, twenty cubits.

40 And at the side without, || as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.

41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.

42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

43 And within were || hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon

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.

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4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty s cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round Kings & about the house on every side.

6 "And the side chambers were three, tone over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

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