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17“Then ojoin them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.
18“And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, p‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’—
19q“say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I will take rthe stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.” ’
20“And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand sbefore their eyes. The Holy District
21“Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely tI will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;
22“and uI will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and vone king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.
23w“They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but xI will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
24y“David My servant shall be king over them, and zthey shall all have one shepherd; athey shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.
25b“Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, cforever; and dMy servant David shall be their prince forever.
26“Moreover I will 3make ea covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and fmultiply them, and I will set My gsanctuary in their midst forevermore.
27h“My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be itheir God, and they shall be My people.
28j“The nations also will know that I, the LORD, ksanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” ’ ” Millennial Feasts
Ezekiel 38
Gog and Allies Attack Israel
1Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2a“Son of man, bset your face against cGog, of the land of dMagog, 1the prince of Rosh, eMeshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3“and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
4f“I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and glead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, hall splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
5“Persia, 2Ethiopia, and 3Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
6i“Gomer and all its troops; the house of jTogarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.
7k“Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.
8l“After many days myou will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword nand gathered from many people on othe mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them pdwell safely.
9“You will ascend, coming qlike a storm, covering the rland like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
10‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan:
11“You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of sunwalled villages; I will tgo to a peaceful people, uwho dwell 4safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’—
12“to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, vand against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.
13w“Sheba, xDedan, the merchants yof Tarshish, and all ztheir young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’
14“Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: a“On that day when My people Israel bdwell safely, will you not know it?
15c“Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
16“You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may dknow Me, when I am ehallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”
17‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them? The Restoration of the Land
Judgment on Gog
18“And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “that My fury will show in My face.
19“For fin My jealousy gand in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: h‘Surely in that day there shall be a great 5earthquake in the land of Israel,
20‘so that ithe fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. jThe mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’
21“I will kcall for la sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord GOD. m“Every man’s sword will be against his brother.
22“And I will nbring him to judgment with opestilence and bloodshed; pI will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, qgreat hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23“Thus I will magnify Myself and rsanctify Myself, sand I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.” ’
Ezekiel 39
Gog’s Armies Destroyed
1“And ayou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, 1the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;
2“and I will bturn you around and lead you on, cbringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
3“Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
4d“You shall 2fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; eI will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5“You shall 3fall on 4the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord GOD.
6f“And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live 5in security in gthe coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
7h“So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them iprofane My holy name anymore. jThen the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8k“Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord GOD. “This is the day lof which I have spoken.
9“Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the 6javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.
10“They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; mand they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord GOD.
The Burial of Gog
11“It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the
valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of 7Hamon Gog.
12“For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, nin order to cleanse the land.
13“Indeed all the people of the land will be burying, and they will gain orenown for it on the day that pI am glorified,” says the Lord GOD.
14“They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of 8a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order qto cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.
15“The search party will pass through the land; and when anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall 9set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.
16“The name of the city will also be 10Hamonah. Thus they shall rcleanse the land.” ’
A Triumphant Festival
17“And as for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, s‘Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field:
t“Assemble yourselves and come;
Gather together from all sides to My usacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you,
A great sacrificial meal von the mountains of Israel,
That you may eat flesh and drink blood.
18w You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
Drink the blood of the princes of the earth,
Of rams and lambs,
Of goats and bulls,
All of them xfatlings of Bashan.
19You shall eat fat till you are full,
And drink blood till you are drunk,
At My sacrificial meal
Which I am sacrificing for you.
20y You shall be filled at My table
With horses and riders,
z With mighty men
And with all the men of war,” says the Lord GOD.
Israel Restored to the Land
21a“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and bMy hand which I have laid on them.
22c“So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.
23d“The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore eI hid My face from them. I fgave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
24g“According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’
25“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: h‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the iwhole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name—
26j‘after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they kdwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid.
27l‘When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I mam hallowed in them in the sight of many nations,
28n‘then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them 11captive any longer.
29o‘And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have ppoured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 40
A New City, a New Temple
1In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after athe city was 1captured, on the very same day bthe hand of the LORD was upon me; and He took me there.
2cIn the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and dset me on a very high mountain; on it toward the south was something like the structure of a city.
3He took me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was elike the appearance of bronze. fHe had a line of flax gand a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.
4And the man said to me, h“Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and 2fix your mind on everything I show you; for you were brought here so that I might show them to you. iDeclare to the house of Israel everything you see.”
5Now there was ja wall all around the outside of the 3temple. In the man’s hand was a measuring rod six 4cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod; and the height, one rod.
The Eastern Gateway of the Temple
6Then he went to the gateway which faced keast; and he went up its stairs and measured the threshold of the gateway, which was one rod wide, and the other threshold was one rod wide.
7Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide; between the gate chambers was a space of five cubits; and the threshold of the gateway by the vestibule of the inside gate was one rod.
8He also measured the vestibule of the inside gate, one rod.
9Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and the gateposts, two cubits. The vestibule of the gate was on the inside.
10In the eastern gateway were three gate chambers on one side and three on the other; the three were all the same size; also the gateposts were of the same size on this side and that side.
11He measured the width of the entrance to the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.
12There was a 5space in front of the gate chambers, one cubit on this side and one cubit on that side; the gate chambers were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.
13Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the other; the width was twenty-five cubits, as door faces door.
14He measured the gateposts, sixty cubits high, and the court all around the gateway extended to the gatepost.
15From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the vestibule of the inner gate was fifty cubits.
16There were lbeveled window frames in the gate chambers and in their intervening archways on the inside of the gateway all around, and likewise in the vestibules. There were windows all around on the inside. And on each gatepost were mpalm trees.
The Outer Court
17Then he brought me into nthe outer court; and there were ochambers and a pavement made all around the court; pthirty chambers faced the pavement.
18The pavement was by the side of the gateways, corresponding to the length of the gateways; this was the lower pavement.
19Then he measured the width from the front of the lower gateway to the front of the inner court exterior, one hundred cubits toward the east and the north.
The Northern Gateway
20On the outer court was also a gateway facing north, and he measured its length and its width.
21Its gate chambers, three on this side and three on that side, its gateposts and its archways, had the same measurements as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.
22Its windows and those of its archways, and also its palm trees, had the same measurements as the gateway facing east; it was ascended by seven steps, and its archway was in front of it.
23A gate of the inner court was opposite the northern gateway, just as the eastern gateway; and he measured from gateway to gateway, one hundred cubits.
The Southern Gateway
24After that he brought me toward the south, and there a gateway was facing south; and he measured its gateposts and archways according to these same measurements.
25There were windows in it and in its archways all around like those windows; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.
26Seven steps led up to it, and its archway was in front of them; and it had palm trees on its gateposts, one on this side and one on that side.
27There was also a gateway on the inner court, facing south; and he measured from gateway to gateway toward the south, one hundre
d cubits.
Gateways of the Inner Court
28Then he brought me to the inner court through the southern gateway; he measured the southern gateway according to these same measurements.
29Also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways were according to these same measurements; there were windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
30There were archways all around, qtwenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.
31Its archways faced the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts, and going up to it were eight steps.
32And he brought me into the inner court facing east; he measured the gateway according to these same measurements.
33Also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways were according to these same measurements; and there were windows in it and in its archways all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
34Its archways faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side; and going up to it were eight steps.
35Then he brought me to the north gateway and measured it according to these same measurements—
36also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways. It had windows all around; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.
37Its gateposts faced the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side, and going up to it were eight steps.
Where Sacrifices Were Prepared
38There was a chamber and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway, where they rwashed the burnt offering.
39In the vestibule of the gateway were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slay the burnt offering, sthe sin offering, and tthe trespass offering.
40At the outer side of the vestibule, as one goes up to the entrance of the northern gateway, were two tables; and on the other side of the vestibule of the gateway were two tables.
41Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gateway, eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices.
42There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; on these they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.