+ evil devices. "And thou shalt say, I the wild beasts of the field, and all the will go up to the rejected land; I will reptiles that creep upon the earth, and come upon them that are at ease in all the men that are on the face of the tranquillity, and dwelling in peace, all earth; and the mountains +Or, land. inhabiting a land in which there is no shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, wall, nor bars, nor have they doors; 12 to and every wall on the land shall fall. seize, plunder and to take their spoil; 21 And I will summon against it even to turn my hands against the desolate every fear, says the Lord: i.e. the land. land that is now inhabited, and against the sword of every man shall be a nation that is gathered from many against his brother. 22 And I will nations, that have acquired property, judge him with pestilence, and blood, dwelling in the midst of the land. and sweeping rain, and hailstones; 13 Sabba, and Dædan, and Cartha- and I will rain upon him fire and Heb. mer- ginian merchants, and all brimstone, and upon all that are with chants of their villages shall say to him, and upon many nations with of Chalcedon. thee, Thou art come for him. 23 And I will be magnified, and plunder to take a prey, and to get sanctified, and glorified; and I will spoils: thou hast gathered thy multi- be known in the presence of many tude to take silver and gold, to carry nations, and they shall know that I off property, to take spoils. am the Lord. Tarshish; Alex. 14 Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord; Wilt thou not arise in that day, when my people Israel are dwelling securely, 15 and come out of thy place from the farthest north, and many nations with thee? all of them mounted on horses, a great gathering, and a large force? 16 And thou shalt come up upon my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the last days, that I will bring thee up upon my land, that all the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in thee before them. 17 Thus says the Lord God, to Gog; Thou art he concerning + Gr. before whom I spoke in former times by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring thee up against them. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord God, 19 that my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of mine anger, Verily in that day there shall be a Or, earth great shaking in the land quake. of Israel; 20 and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the former days. + 4 2 39. And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince of Rhos, Mesoch and Thobel: and I will assemble thee, and guide thee, and raise thee up on the extremity of the north, and I will bring thee up upon the mountains of Israel. And I will destroy thy bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel; and thou and all that belong to thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, even to every fowl, and I have given thee to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken it, says the Lord. And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord. And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. Behold it is come, and thou shalt know that it shall be, says the Lord 8 6 God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken. And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall keep fire burning with them for seven years: 10 and they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, says the Lord. miah 2. 23. + Alex. τὴν θά λασσαν. valley, the bu 13 "And it shall come to pass that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, the burial+ See Jere- place of them that approach the sea: and they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude: and the place shall then be called the 'bu+Alex. the rial-place of Gog. 12 And rial-place, &c. the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a place of renown in the day wherein it was glorified, says the Lord. 14 And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek them out. 15 And every one that goes through the land, and sees a man's bone, shall set up a mark by it, until the buriers shall have buried it in the valley, the burialplace of Gog. 16 For the name of the city shall be Burial-place: so shall the land be cleansed. And thou, son of man, say, Thus says the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all places round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and shall eat flesh, and + drink blood. 18 Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye +Lit. giants. shall drink the blood of the princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves. 19 And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you. 20 And ye shall be filled at my table, eating horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, says the Lord. 21 And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them. 22 And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from this day and onwards. + 23 And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against me, and I ti. e. treach turned away my face from erously. them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them. 25 Therefore thus says the Lord God, Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of my holy name. 26 And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify them 27 when I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of the countries of the nations: and I will be sanctified among them in the presence of the nations. 28 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations. 29 And I will no more turn away my face from them, because I have poured out my wrath upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God. me. 40. And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me 2 in a vision of God into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it there was as it were the frame of a city before And he brought me in thither, and, behold, there was a man, and the appearance of him was as the appearance of shining brass, and in his hand was a builder's line, and a measuring reed; and he stood at the gate. And the man said to me, Look with thine eyes at him whom thou hast seen, son of man, and hear with thine ears, and lay up in thine heart all things that I show thee; for thou hast come in hither that I might show thee, and thou shalt show all things that thou seest to the house of Israel. And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man's hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured + Or, first or across the front wall; the outer wall. breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed. And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed. 7And the chamber was equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed; and the porch between the chambers six cubits; and the second chamber equal in breadth to the reed, and equal in length to the reed, and the porch five cubits. 8 And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed. "And the porch of the gateway (near the porch of the gate,) eight cubits; and the posts thereof two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward: 10 and the chambers of the gate of the chamber in front were three on one side and three on the other, and there was one mea + sure to the three: there was one measure to the porches on this side and on that. "And he measured the breadth of the door of the gateway, ten cubits; and the breadth of the gateway thirteen cubits. 12 And the space before the chambers was narrowed to a cubit in front of the chambers on this side and on that side: and the chamber was six cubits this way, and six cubits that way. 13 And he measured the gate from the wall of one chamber to the wall of the other chamber: the breadth was twenty-five cubits, the one gate over against the other gate. 14And the open space of the porch of the gate without, was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate. 15And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits. 16 And there were secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within + Gr. sing. the gate of the court round Heb. pl. about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within: and on the porch there were palm-trees on this side and on that side. "And he brought me into the inner court, and, behold, there were chambers, and peristyles round about the court; thirty chambers within the ranges of columns. 18 And the porticos were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle. 19 And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inwards to the open space of the gate looking outwards: a hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north; 20 and behold a gate looking northwards belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth; 21 and the chambers, three on this side and Gr. sing. three on that; and the posts, and the porches, and the palm-trees thereof: and they were according to the measures of the gate that looks eastward: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and was fifty cubits and the breadth of it the breadth thereof was twenty-five twenty-five cubits. 34 And there were cubits. 22 And its windows, and its porches opening into the inner court, porches, and its palm-trees, were according to the dimensions of the gate looking eastward; and they went up ti. e. the gate. to it by seven steps; and the porches were within. 23 And there was a gate to the inner court looking toward the north gate, after the manner of the gate looking toward the east; and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits. + there they offering (39) porch of the tables on this side.' and palm-trees on the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps. 35 And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures; 36 and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches: and it had windows round. about, and it had its porches: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits. 37 And its 24 And he brought me to the south porches were toward the inner court; side, and behold a gate looking south- and there were palm-trees to the posts wards: and he measured it, and its on this side and on that side: and it chambers, and its posts, and its porches, had eight steps. 38 Its chambers and according to these dimensions. 25 And its door-ways, and its porches at the its windows and its porches round second gate served as a drain, 39 that about were according to the windows they might slay in it the Alex.+‘and of the porch: the length thereof was sin-offerings, and the 'tres- shall wash the fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof pass-offerings. 40 And be- whole-burntwas five and twenty cubits. 26 And it hind the drain for the and in the had seven steps, and porches within: whole-burnt-offerings at the gate were two and it had palm-trees on the posts, one north gate, two tables east- tade and two on one side, and one on the other side. ward behind the second tables on that 27 And there was a gate opposite the gate; and behind the porch i. e. for sins gate of the inner court southward: and of the gate two tables east- of ignorance. he measured the court from gate to ward. 41 Four on one side and four gate, a hundred cubits in breadth on the other side behind the gate; Or, possibly southward. 28 And he upon them they kill the victims, in at the south brought me into the inner front of the eight tables of sacrifices. court of the south gate: and he mea- 42And there were four tables of hewn sured the gate according to these mea- stone for whole-burnt-offerings, the sures; and the chambers, and the breadth of them was a cubit and a half, posts, 30 and the porches, according to and the length of them two cubits and these measures: and there were win- a half, and their height was a cubit: dows to it and to the porches round on them they shall place the instruabout: its length was fifty cubits, and ments with which they slay there the +Or, perhaps, its breadth twenty-five cu- whole-burnt-offerings and the victims. breadth of the bits, 31 from the porch to 43 And they shall have within a border porch 24 cu- the outer court: and there of hewn stone round about of a span to,' &c. were palm-trees to the post broad, and over the tables above thereof, and eight steps. 32 And he screens for covering them from the wet brought me in at the gate that looks and from the heat. 44 And he brought eastward: and he measured it accord- me into the inner court, and behold ing to these measures; 33 and the there were two chambers in the inner chambers, and the posts, and the court, one behind the gate looking to porches according to these measures: the north, turning southwards, and and there were windows to it, and one behind the southern gate, but porches round about: the length of it which looks to the north. 45 And he end. ' and the 29 bits extending + said to me, This chamber that looks | round about. And the sides were to the south, is for the priests that twice ninety, side against side; and keep the charge of the house. 46 And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar: they are the sons of Sadduc, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord to serve him. 47And he measured the court, the length whereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house. 48 And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door was fourteen cubits, and the side-pieces of the door of the porch were three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side. 49 And the length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits; and they went up to it by ten steps: and there were pillars to the porch, one on this side and the other on that side. 9 there was a space in the wall of the house at the sides round about, that they should be for them that take hold of them to see, that they should not at all touch the walls of the house. And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the ground-sills to the third story. And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits; and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house, 10 and between the chambers, were a width of twenty cubits, the circumference of the house. 11 And the doors of the chambers were toward the space left by the one door that looked northward, and there was one door southward; and the breadth of the remaining open space Gr. light. 41. And he brought me into the was five cubits in extent round about. temple, the porch of which he mea-12 And the partition wall in front of sured, six cubits the breadth on one the remaining space, toward the west, side, and six cubits the breadth of the was seventy cubits in breadth; the porch on the other side. And the breadth of the partition wall was five breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, cubits round about, and the length of and the side-pieces of the gateway it ninety cubits. 13 And he measured were five cubits on this side, and five in front of the house a length of a cubits on that side: and he measured hundred cubits, and the remaining the length of it, forty cubits, and the spaces and the partitions; and the breadth, twenty cubits. And he went walls thereof were in length a hundred into the inner court, and measured the cubits. 14 And the breadth in front of post of the door, two cubits; and the the house, and the remaining spaces door, six cubits; and the side-pieces of before it were a hundred cubits. 15 And the door, seven cubits on one side, and he measured the length of the partition seven cubits on the other side. And in front of the space left by the back he measured the length of the doors, parts of that house; and the spaces forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty left on this side and on that side were cubits, in front of the temple: and he in length a hundred cubits: and the Alex. + 'to said, This is the holy of temple and the corners and the outer holies. And he measured porch were 'ceiled. 16 And or, wains the wall of the house, six cubits; and the windows were latticed, cotted. the breadth of each side, four cubits giving light round about to the three me.' 2 4 |