[14] Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, Thus saith 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 saith the Lord God, to Gog; Thou art he concerning 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, saith 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 great shaking in the land 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 wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall. [21] And I will summon against it even every fear, saith the Lord: the sword of every man shall be against his brother. [22] And I will judge him with pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations with him.
[23] And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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[1] And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel: [2] 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. [3] And I will destroy the 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; [4] 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. [5] Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.
[6] And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord. [7] 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. [8] Behold it is come, and thou shalt know that it shall be, saith the Lord God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken.
[9] And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and the 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, saith the Lord.
[11] 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-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 burial-place of Gog. [12] And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months. [13] 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, saith 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 burial place of Gog. [16] For the name of the city shall be Burial-place: so shall the land be cleansed.
[17] And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith 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 drink blood. [18] Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of 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, saith 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 turned away my face from 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 saith 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, saith the Lord God.
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[1] 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 me.
[3] 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. [4] 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.
[5] 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 across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.
[6] 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. [7] And 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. [9] And the porch of the gateway (near the porch of the gate) eight cubits; and the posts there of 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 measure to the three: there was one measure to the porches on this side a
nd on that. [11] 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. [14] And the open space of the porch of the gate without, was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate. [15] And 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 the gate of the court round 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.
[17] 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 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 the breadth thereof was twenty-five cubits. [22] And its windows, and its porches, and its palm-trees, were according to the dimensions of the gate looking eastward; and they went up 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.
[24] And he brought me to the south side, and behold a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions. [25] And its windows and its porches round about were according to the windows of the porch: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof was five and twenty cubits. [26] And it had seven steps, and porches within: and it had palm-trees on the posts, one on one side, and one on the other side. [27] And there was a gate opposite the gate of the inner court southward: and he measured the court from gate to gate, a hundred cubits in breadth southward.
[28] And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate: and he measured the gate according to these measures; [29] and the chambers, and the posts, (30) and the porches, according to these measures: and there were windows to it and to the porches round about: its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits, [30] 31 from the porch to the outer court: and there were palm-trees to the post thereof, and eight steps.
[32] And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward: and he measured it according to these measures: [33] and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches according to these measures: and there were windows to it, and porches round about: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty-five cubits. [34] And there were porches opening into the inner court, 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 porches were toward the inner court; and there were palm-trees to the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps.
[38] Its chambers and its door-ways, and its porches at the second gate served as a drain, [39] that they might slay in it the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings. [40] And behind the drain for the whole-burnt-offerings at the north gate, two tables eastward behind the second gate; and behind the porch of the gate two tables eastward. [41] Four on one side and four on the other side behind the gate; upon them they kill the victims, in front of the eight tables of sacrifices. [42] And there were four tables of hewn stone for whole-burnt-offerings, the breadth of them was a cubit and a half, and the length of them two cubits and a half, and their height was a cubit: on them they shall place the instruments with which they slay there the whole-burnt-offerings and the victims. [43] And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering them from the wet and from the heat.
[44] And he brought me into the inner court, and behold there were two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north. [45] And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that 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.
[47] And 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 one on that side.
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[1] And he brought me into the temple, the porch of which he measured, six cubits the breadth on one side, and six cubits the breadth of the porch on the other side. [2] And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side-pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length of it, forth cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
[3] And he went into the inner court, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the side-pieces of the door, seven cubits on one side, and seven cubits on the other side. [4] And he measured the length of the doors, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple: and he said, This is the holy of holies.
[5] And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about. [6] And the sides were twice ninety, side against side; and 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. [7] 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.
[8] And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits; [9] 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 was five cubits in extent round about.
[12] And the partition wall in front of the remaining space, toward the west, was seventy cubits in breadth; the breadth of the partition wall was five cubits round about, and the length of it ninety cubits. [13] And he measured in front of the house a length of a hundred cubits, and
the remaining spaces and the partitions; and the walls thereof were in length a hundred cubits. [14] And the breadth in front of the house, and the remaining spaces before it were a hundred cubits.
[15] And he measured the length of the partition in front of the space left by the back parts of that house; and the spaces left on this side and on that side were in length a hundred cubits: and the temple and the corners and the outer porch were ceiled. [16] And the windows were latticed, giving light round about to the three stories, so as to look through: and the house and the parts adjoining were planked round about, and so was the floor, and from the floor up to the windows, and the window shutters folded back in three parts for one to look through. [17] And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without, [18] were carved cherubs and palm-trees between the cherubs, and each cherub had two faces. [19] The face of a man was toward one palm-tree on this side and on that side, and the face of a lion toward another palm-tree on this side and on that side: the house was carved all round. [20] From the floor to the ceiling were cherubs and palm-trees carved.
[21] And the holy place and the temple opened on four sides; in front of the holy places the appearance was as the look of [22] a wooden altar, the height of it three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth two cubits; and it had horns, and the base of it and the sides of it were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table, which is before the face of the Lord.
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