put hooks c into thy jaws, and I| will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed d with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and 2 Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

B. C. 587. B. C. 587.

c ch.29.4.

2Ki. 19.28.

d ch.23.12.

2 or, Phut, ch 27.10. 30:5.

e Ge. 10.2. fch.27.14.

6 Gomer, e and all his bands; the house of Togarmah f of the north quarters, and all his bands: and g Am.4.12. many people with thee.

h Is.29.6. 7 Be thou prepared,g and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy com-i ch.36.1,4,8. pany that are assembled unto thee, 1Pe.2.9. and be thou a guard unto them. 8 T After many days thou shalt 1 ch.28.26. be visited: h 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 i of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth k out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

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

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 3 think an evil thought:

m Is.8,9,10. 3 or, conceive a mischievous purpose.

n Je.49.31.

4

or, confidently.

spoil the spoil, and to prey the prey, ch.29.19.

6 navel, Ju.9.37.

a ch.19.3,5. Ps.57.4.

p Je.23.6.

11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them n that are at rest, that dwell 4 safely, all of them q ch.37.28. dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

r Ex. 14.4.

7 by the

hands of

12 To 5 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, & Joel 2.18. which have gotten cattle and goods,t Joel 3.16. that dwell in the midst of the land.

Zec. 14.4,&c.

8

or, lowers,

or, stairs.

13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions o thereof, shall say u Re. 16.21. unto thee, Art thou come to take a (CHAP. 39.) spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away a ch.38.2,&c. silver and gold, to take away cattle 1 or, strike and goods, to take a great spoil? 14 T Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, p shalt thou not know q it.?

15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, 2 and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great 2G2

thee with

six plagues; or, draw

thee back with an hook of six teeth.

sides of the

north.

753

against Gog.

company, and a mighty army: 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 r the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time 7 by 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 s and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day t there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all 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 8 steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 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.

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 hail-stones, u fire, and brimstone.

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.

TH

CHAPTER XXXIX. 1 God's judgments upon Gog. 8 Israel's victory. 17 The feast of the THEREFORE, thou son of man, fowls and beasts. prophesy against Gog, a and Thus 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 1 leave but the sixth part of thee, and I will cause thee to come up from the 2 north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

3 And I will smite thy bow out ɑf 48

Israel's victory.

bRe. 19.17-21. 3 wing.

gog.

Feast of the fowls.

and to the beasts of the field to ✦ be devoured. 5 Thou shalt fall upon the 5 open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

6 And I will send a fire c on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: d and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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 e any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

8 T Behold, it ƒ is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

devour.

face of the
field.

c Am. 1.4,&c. 6 or, confidently.

d Is.66.19. Je.25.22. Zep.2.11. e Ex.20.7.

Le. 18.21.

ƒ Re.16.17.

21.6.

or, javelins.

make

or,
fire of
them.

g Ps.46.9. Is. 14.2.

a

9 or, mouths. 10

that is, the multitude of Gog.

i ver. 14,16. De.21.23.

k ch.28.22. 11 continu

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 7 hand-staves and the spears, and they shall & burn g them with fire seven years: 10 So that they shall take no wood 12 build. out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire:

and they shall spoil h those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

11 T 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 10 Hamon-gog. 12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, 9 that they may cleanse i 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 k shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

ance.

that is, the

multitude.

to the fowl

of every wing.

Is. 18.6. Re. 19.17,18. or, staugh

ter.

14 And they shall sever out ment of 11 continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the u ch.34. 13. passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

15 And the passengers that pass though the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he 12 set up u sign by it, till the buriers have

v Ho.1.11. w Ps.99.8.

Je.30.11.

xDc.28.47,48,

32,14,15.

17 by my causing of.

16 And also the name of the city shall be 13 Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

17 T And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak 14 unto every feathered fowl, land to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my 15 sacrifice m that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

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 16 goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of n Bashan.

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.

20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses o and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.

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.

22 So the house of Israel shall q know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: r because they trespassed against me, therefore hid s I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

23 ¶ And the heathen shall know

24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now u will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the v whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy

name;

26 After w that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, z when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, 17 which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have

Description of the

y De.30.3,4. Ne. 1.8-1C.

z Is.54.8.

a Zec. 12.10. Ac.2.17. 1Jno.3.24.

TN the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the (CHAP. 40.) month, in the fourteenth year after a ch.33.21. that the city a was smitten, in the self-same day the hand of the LORD b ch.8.3. was upon ine, and brought me thither.

c Re.21.10,

&c.

2 In the visions b of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very highc mountain, 1 or, upon. 1 by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

d Da. 10.6. 3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose de ch.43.10. appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in 2 whose face his hand, and a measuring-reed; and he stood in the gate.

was the way toward the east.

g ver. 7.

4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, fch.45.19. and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall show thee: for to the intent that [ might show them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare e all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

3 limit, or, bound.

h ch.42.1. Ex.27.9.

closed.

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. 6 T Then came he unto the gate i 1K1.6.4. 2 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.

s or, galle

ries, or, porches.

6 or, within.

7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and k Re.11.2. between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Jno. 14.2.

m ch.45.5.

* or, from without.

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

10 And the little chambers g 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.

was.

9 or, galle

ries, or, porches.

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

12 The 3 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 h court round about the gate.

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

16 And there were 4 narrow i windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the 5 arches: and windows were round about Ginward: and upon each post were palm trees.

17 Then brought he me into the outward k court, and, lo, there were l chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty m chambers were upon the pavement. 18 And the pavement by the side of the gates, over against the length of the gates, was the lower pavement.

19 Then he measured the breadth from the fore-front of the lower gate under the fore-front of the inner court 7 without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

20 T And the gate of the outward court 8 that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side, and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the 9 arches thereof were after the measure of 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 towards the south, and behold, a gate toward the south: and he

Gates of the temple.

measures.

25 And there were windows in itn 1Ch.28.11, and in the arches thereof round 12. 2Ch.31.11. about, like those windows: the Ne.13.9. length was fifty cubits, and the Je.35.2,4. breadth five and twenty cubits. 36.10.

10 breadth.

26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm o ver.21-25, 33,36. trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. 27 T And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south and he measured from gate to gate to-p ch.44.4. ward the south an hundred cubits. 47.2. 28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

q Le.1.3,&c.

29 And the little chambers n thereof, and the posts thereof, and ther Le.4.2,3. arches thereof, according to these ineasures; and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was o fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

Le.5.6,&c.

6.6.
7.1,&c.

30 And the arches round about 11 or, at the were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits 20 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.

step.

12 or, endirons, or, the two hearth

stones.

&c.

32 T And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: andt 1Ch.6.31, he measured the gate according to these measures.

Nu.3.27-38.

33 And the little chambers there-u ch. 8.5. of, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to v Le.8.35. 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.

18.5. ICh.9.23. 2Ch.13.11. Ps. 134. 1. Mal.2.4-7. 1Ti.6.20.

34 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof on this side, and on that 13 or, ward, side and the going up to it had eight steps.

35 T And he brought me to the p north gate, and measured it according to these measures;

or, ordi

nance, ver. 46.

w ch.44.15.

Nu. 18.5.

36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about the length was fifty ch.43.19. cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

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.

38 And the chambers and the en

У

44.15, 16. 1Ki,2,35.

IKI.6.3.

z 1Ki.7.21. Re.3. 12.

The chambers, &c. tries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt-offering.

39 ¶ And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering q and the r sin-offering and the trespassoffering.s

40 And at the side without, 11 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 12 hooks, an hand-broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

44 T And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singerst 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 u 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 v of the 13 charge of the house.

46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: w these are the sons of Zadok z among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.

47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, four-square; and the altar that was before the house.

48 T 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.

49 The length y 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 z by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.