The type of a siege. EZEKIEL, V. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side,| B. C. 595. and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. Beginning 1Ki. 12.23. 585. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hun-d Nu. 14.3,4. dred and ninety c days: so shalt thou beard the iniquity of the house of Israel. 3 a day for a The type of hair. water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume m away for their iniquity. CHAPTER V. The judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion. of sharp knife, fakettek a tur AND thou, son of man, take thee ber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head, and upon thy beard then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. year, a day 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right e ch.33.25. side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee 3 each day for a year. 4 thy side to 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy 5 or, spelt. face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be un-f Ho.9.3. covered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. g Ac.10.14. h Ex.22.31. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands e upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from 4 one side to another, till thou hast ended. the days of thy De. 14.3. siege. Is.65.4. 14.13. 9 T Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and k ch.5.16. lentiles, and millet, and 5 fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat ch.12.13. thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a-day: from time to time m ch.24. shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. Le.26.39. (CHAP. 5.) a ch.4.1,8,9. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley-b Je.52.16. cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in 1 wings. their sight. c Je.44. 14. 13 And the LORD said, Even ƒ thus shall the children of Israel eat their d Jude 4. defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! be e ch.16.47. ICo.5.1. 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege a are fulfilled : and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and. I will draw out a sword after them. 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a b few in number, and bind them in thy 1 skirts. 4 Then take c of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. 5 T Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed d my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more e than the countries that are round about her: for they haveƒ refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments hold, my soul hath not been pollut-Ne.9.16, 17. in the midst of thee, in the sight of Israel is EZEKIEL, VI, VII. hast defiled my sanctuary k with B. C. 594. all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish m thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity. n 12 A third o part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter p a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, q and I will cause my fury to restr upon them, and I will be comforted:s and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them. k ch.8.5,&c. Je.44.4. m Ps. 107.39. ch.6.12. p Je 9.16. 14 Moreover I will make thee tu De.28.37. waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. 1Ki.9.7. 15 So it shall be a reproach u and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall x Le.26.22. execute judgments in thee, in anger and in fury, and in furious vy ch.38.22. rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it. | (CHAP. 6.) 16 When w I shall send upon them a ch.20.46. the evil arrows of famine, which b ch.36.1. shall be for their destruction, and Mi.6.1,2. which I will send to destroy you:c Le.26.30. and I will increase the famine upon 1 sun-images. you, and will break your staff of bread. 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence y and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. CHAPTER VI. The faithful are exhorted to lament their calamities. AND the word of the LORD came unto me saying, or, give. 16. 3sun-images. e ver. 13. h Ps.78.40. 2 Son of man, set a thy face toward Is.43.24. the mountains b of Israel, and pro-i Je.3.6,13. phesy against them. 3 And say, 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; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your highc places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your 1 images shall be broken and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. k ch.14.4-7. 20.7.24. Nu. 15.39. m ch.21.14. p Is.5.25. PIs, desolate 3 or, threatened 6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your 3 images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and e ye shall know that I am the LORD. 8 ¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, ƒ that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 9 And they that escape of you shall remember g me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken h with their whorish i heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, k which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. il T Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite m with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for n they shall and by the pestilence. fall by the sword, by the famine, 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon o every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. 14 So will I stretch out p my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, 4 more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. CHAPTER VII. 1 The final desolation of Israel. 23 Their miserable captivity. OREOVER the word of the M LORD came unto me, saying, from the 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith 5 And I will 2 lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones d round about your a La. 1.9. altars. (CHAP. 7.) EZEKIEL, VIII. B. C. 594. Final destruction of Israel. and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will 1 recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 1 give. d Zep.1. 4 And b mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense c thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and yee Ga.6.7. shall know that I am the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An fMi.6.9. evil, an only evil, behold, is come. 6 An end is come, the end is come: it 2 watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land the time is come, the day d of trouble is near, and not the 3 sounding again of the mountains. 8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. Re.20.13. Pr. 16. 18. 6 though their life were k La.1.20. 9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will re-10 go into. compense 4 thee according to thy 1 Am.8.10. ways, e and thine abominations that 11 for a sepaare in the midst of thee; and ye ration, or, shall know that If am the LORD that smiteth. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed; pride g hath budded. 11 Violence h is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their 5 multitude, nor of any of 6 their's; neither shall there be wailing for them. m 12 unclean- Pr.11.4. or, their iniquity is their stum blingblock. n ch.14.3,4. o Je.7.30. 13 or, made it 14 unto them an unclean thing. or, burglars. P 2K1.21.16. q Ps. 106.41. is or, they 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. 13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, 7 although they were yet alive: for the vision shall inis touching the whole multitude herit their thereof, which shall not return; neither i shall any strengthen him- 2Ch.7.20. holy places. self 8 in 9 the iniquity of his life. Ps.83.12. 14 They have blown the trumpet, 16 Cutting even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wraths is upon all the multitude thereof. 15 The sword k is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 16 T But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. off. De.32.23. Je.4.20. t ch.20.3. Ps.74.9. 17 with their The type of the chain. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall 10 be weak as water. 18 They I shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be 11 removed: their silver m and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because 12 it is the stumbling-block n of their iniquity. 20 T As for the beauty of his orna ment, he set it in majesty: but they made o the images of their abominations, and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I 13 set it far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the 14 robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 23 T Make a chain: forp the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 21 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, q and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, and 15 their holy places r shall be defiled. 25 16 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischiefs shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the t law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and 17 according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know am the LORD. The image of jealousy. EZEKIEL, IX. even upward, as the appearance of B. C. 594. 1 brightness, as the colour of d ambe:. d ch.1.4. 3 And he put forth the form of ane hand, and took me by a lock of e Da.5.5. mine head; and the spirit lifted me fch.40.2. up between the earth and the hea- g Je.32.34. ven, and fbrought me in the visions h De.32.16, of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north, were g was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh h to jealousy. 21. i ch.3.22,23. k Ps.48.2. I Pr.5.14. m Ps.78.60. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw i in the plain. n ch.20.8. 5 ¶ Then said he unto me, Son of |o Je.23.11. man, lift up thine eyes now the way p Ro. 1.23. toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the 9 Je. 19.1. north, and behold northward at ther Nu. 16. 17. gate of the altar this image of jea-s Ep.5.12. lousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from m my sanctuary? But turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, be hold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations n that they do here. t ch.9.9. Ps.73.11. 94.7. u 2Ti.3.13. 2K1.23.5. Je.44.17. or, Is there any thing 10 So I went in o and saw; and be-a hold, every p form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round 1 about. Pr. 1.28. (CHAP. 9.) is turned. weapon of his breaking in pieces. loins. 11 And there stood before them 2 seventy men of the ancients q of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man a Re. 15.6. his censer in his hand; and a 3 upon his thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then said he unto me, Son of b ch.3.23. man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, s every man in the c Ex. 12.7. chambers of his imagery? for they Re.7.3. say, The t LORD seeth us not: the d Ps. 119. 136. LORD hath forsaken the earth. Je. 13.17. ears. Ex.32.27. 13 T He said also unto me, Turns thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 4 mark. Nu.25.7,8. 1Ki. 18.40. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; to destrucand, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 2 F tion. 721 God's wrath for idɔlatry 15 T Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater u abominations than these 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between v the porch and the altar, were about five w and twenty men, with their backs toward a the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun y toward the east. 17 T Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? 1 Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to, anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eye shall not spare, z neither will I have pity: and though a they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. CHAPTER IX. A vision, whereby is showed the preservation of some, and the destruction of the rest. HE cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. 2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which 1 lieth toward the north, and every man a 2 slaughter-weapon in his writer's ink-horn 3 by his side: and hand; and one man among them was clothed a with linen, with a they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. 3 And the glory b of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's ink-horn by his side; 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and 4 set a mark upon c the foreheads of the men that d sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5 T And to the others he said in mine 5 hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: e let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Vixion of the coals of fire, women: but ƒ come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin g at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. EZEKIEL, X. f Re.9.4. g Je.25.29. i Je.5.1. &c. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain go ye forth. And they h Ge. 18.23, went forth, and slew in the city. 8 T And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah, Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue h of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? 9 Then said he unto me, The inquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, i and the land is 7 full of blood, k and the city full of 8 perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth / not. 10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. 11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the ink-horn by his side, 9 reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. CHAPTER X. The vision of the coals of fire, and of the cherubims. THEN filled with. k 2Ki.24.4. 8 or, avrest- Ps. 10.11. Is.29.15. 9 returned (CHAP. 10.) a ch.1.22,26. b ch.9.2,3. e c the hollow ch.1.13. d Ex.9.8-10. HEN I looked, and, behold, ine Nu. 16. 19. the firmament a that was above 2 was lifted. the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were af ch.43.5. sapphire-stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 1Ki.8.10, g ch.1.24. 99.1. 2 And he spake unto the man b clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the h Ps.80.1. cherub, and fill 1 thine hand with coals c of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter d them over the city. And he went in in my sight. 3 sent forth. 3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the i ver.21. man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4 Then the glory e of the LORD 2 went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled f with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory. k ch.1.15,&c. 4 flesh. 5 or, they and of the cherubims. went in, and stood beside the wheels. 7 And one cherub 3 stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out. 8 T And i there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings. 9 And when I looked, behold & the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl-stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. 12 And their whole 4 body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. 13 As for the wheels, 5 it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel! 14 And 7 every one had four faces: thefirst face was the faceof a cherub. and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature m that I saw by the river of Chebar. 16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. were called 18 Then the glory of the LORD dein my hear.parted from off the threshold of the ing, Wheel, house, and stood n over the cheruor, Galgul.'bims. ch.1.6,10. m ch.1.5. 5 And the sound g of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 6 And it came to pass, that when 6 life. he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Taken ch.11.22. fire from between the wheels, from between h the cherubims; then he Ge.3.24. 19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them. and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 20 This is the living creature that |