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RESTORATION PREDICTED.

spoons, and all the vessels of gold changed! the stones of the
brass wherewith they ministered, sanctuary are poured out in the
took they away. And the fire-top of every street.
pans, and the bowls, and such
things as were of gold, in gold,
and of silver, in silver, the captain
of the guard took away. The two
pillars, one sea, and the bases
which Solomon had made for the
house of the LORD: the brass of
all these vessels was without
weight.

house, and, being set up. let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there, destroy all Zech. iv, 7. Who art thou, O their hand to alter and to destroy kings and people that shall put to great mountain? before Zerub- this house of God, which is at Jebabel thou shalt become a plain: rusalem. I Darius have made a and he shall bring forth the head-decree; let it be done with speed. stone thereof with shoutings, cry- Then Tatnai, governor on this ing, Grace, grace, unto it. side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.

Zech. vi, 15. And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD; and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath

2 Chron. xxxvi, 19. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly sent me unto you. And this shall that are given thee for the service

vessels thereof.

Ps. lxxiv, 8-8. Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations, even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for sigus. A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. But now they break down

the carved work thereof at once

with axes and hammers. They have cast fire into thy sanctuary; they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Ps. lxxix, 1. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Isa. Ixiv, 11, 12. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. Wilt thou retrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

Jer. vii, 12. But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Jer. lil, 12, 13. Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan,.. And burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burnt he

with fire.

Lam. ii. 7. The LORD hath cast off his altar; he hath abhorred his sanctuary: he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Lam. iv, 1. How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine

come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.

AND ACCOMPLISHED UNDER CYRUS.

Ezra i, 7-11. Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, Mithredath the treasurer, and the prince of Judah. And this is the number of them: thirty chargers

of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, Thirty basons of gold, hundred and ten, and other vessilver basons of a second sort four sels a thousand. All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

Ezra v, 15. And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem.

Ezra vii, 19. The vessels also of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

Ezra viii, 24, 25, 33, 34. Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Shereblah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the Vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, offered. Now, on the fourth day and all Israel there present, had was the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiab the son of Binnui, Levites; by number, and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

REBUILT UNDER DIVINE PROMISE.

Ezra iii, 6-9. From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD: but the foundation of Ezra vi, 3--5, 11-13. In the first the temple of the LORD was not year of Cyrus the king, the same yet laid. They gave money also Cyrus the king made a decree unto the masons, and to the carconcerning the house of God at penters; and meat, and drink, and Jerusalem, Let the house be oil, unto them of Zidon, and to builded, the place where they of them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees fered sacrifices, and let the foun- from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, dations thereof be strongly laid; according to the grant that they the height thereof threescore cu- had of Cyrus king of Persia. Now, bits, and the breadth thereof in the second year of their coming threescore cubits; With three rows unto the house of God at Jerusa of great stones, and a row of new lem, in the second month. began timber: and let the expenses be Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, given out of the king's house. and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, And also let the golden and silver and the remnant of their brethren vessels of the house of God, which the priests and the Levites, and Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of all they that were come out of the the temple which is at Jerusalem, captivity unto Jerusalem; and apand brought unto Babylon, be re-pointed the Levites, from twenty stored, and brought again unto years old and upward, to set forthe temple which is at Jerusalem, ward the work of the house of them in the house of God. Also I with his sons and his brethren, every one to his place, and place the LORD. Then stood Jeshua, have made a decree, that whoso- Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of ever shall alter this word, let Judah, together, to set forward timber be pulled down from his the workmen in the house of God;

the sons of Henadad, with their and their brethren the

sons Levites.

Ezra v, 1, 2. 16. Then the prophets, Haggal the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them. Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them. Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.

day of the sixth month, in the
second year of Darius the king.

Haggai ii, 2-4, 15, 16, 18, 19. Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts. And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD; Since Ezra vi, 14, 15. And the elders those days were, when one came of the Jews builded, and they pros- to an heap of twenty measures, pered through the prophesying of there were but ten: when one Ilaggat the prophet, and Zechar-came to the press fat for to draw fah the son of Iddo: and they out fifty vessels out of the press, builded, and finished it, according there were but twenty. Consider now from this day and upward from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, eren from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the figtree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

to the commandment of the God

of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Pein. And this house was finished on the third day of the

month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

Haggai 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 12-15. Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be gloried, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, (as the LORD their God had sent him) and the people did fear before the LORD. Then spike Higgai the LORD's messenker in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I an, with you, saith the LORD. And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came, and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts their God, In the four and twentieth

Zech. iv, 9, 10. The hands of Zerubabbel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who hath spised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

and said unto them. Let ns build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sicrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia, And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

Ezra v, 3-11, 13, 17. At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznal, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall? Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building? But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter. The copy of the letter that Tatnal, governor on this de-side the river, and Shethar-boznal, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace. Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands. Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls? We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them. And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house Ezra iv, 1-6. Now, when the that was builded these many adversaries of Judah and Ben-years ago, which a great king of Jamin heard that the children of Israel builded and set up. But in the captivity builded the temple the first year of Cyrus the king unto the LORD God of Israel; of Babylon, the same king Cyrus Then they came to Zerubbabel, made a decree to build this house and to the chief of the fathers, of God. Now therefore, it it seem

Zech. viii, 9, 10. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

OBSTACLES.

good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasurehouse, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jeru. salem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

Ezra vi, 6, 7. Now therefore, Tatnal, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence: Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews, build this house of God in his place.

DEDICATION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE.

Ezra vi, 16, 17. And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy. And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

ITS PURIFICATION BY JESUS. Mark xi, 15, 16. And they come to Jerusalem; and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves; And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

Luke xix, 45, 46. And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying 'urto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

John ii, 15. And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables.

PROPHECY OF ITS FINAL

DESTRUCTION.

Matth. xxiv, 1, 2. And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him, for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus Baid unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Mark xiii, 1, 2. And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see

what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus answering, said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Luke xxi, 5, 6. And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

III.

MYSTIC TEMPLE OF
EZEKIEL.

YEASUREMENT, PLAN, ETO. Ezekiel. xl, 1, 5-49. In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the self-same day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 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. Then came he unto the gate 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. And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits: and the threshold of the gate, by the porch of the gate within, was one reed. He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch little chambers of the gate eastof the gate was inward. And the ward 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. And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. The 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. 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. He made also posts

And

of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate. And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner-gate acere fifty cubits. And there rere narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palmtrees. Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement. And the pavement by the side of the gates, over against the length of the gates, was the lower pavement. Then he measured the breadth, from the fore-front of the lower gate unto the fore-front of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward. the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. And the little chambers thereof were three on this side, and three on that side; and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 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 into it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. 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 cubita After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate to ward the south: and he measured the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures. And there were windows in it, and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows; the breadth five and twenty the length was fifty cubits, and cubits. And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. And there was a gate in the funer court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate to ward the south an hundred cubits. And he brought me to the inner conrt by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures; And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it, and in the arches thereof

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round about it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad: And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps. And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to 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. And the arches thereof were to ward the outward 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. And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. And the posts thereof were toward the outer 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. chambers, and the entries thereof, And the were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burntoffering. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-oflering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering. And at the side without, 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. tables were on this side, and four Four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices. And the four tables acere 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. And within were hooks, an hand-broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which wes at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate haring the prospect toward the north. unto me, This chamber, whose And he said prospect is toward the south, is

bers were toward the place that was left, one north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the door toward the place that was left was five cubits round about. Now the building that was place, at the end toward the west, before the separate wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the was seventy cubits broad; and the length thereof ninety cubits. So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long, and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. And the chamber, whose prospect is to ward the north, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, among the sons of Levi, which ter unto him. So he measured come near to the LORD to ministhe court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, four-square; and the altar that was before the house. 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. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, length of the building over against and the breadth eleven cubits; and the separate place which was beAnd he measured the he brought me by the steps where-hind it, and the galleries thereof were pillars by the posts, one on by they went up to it: and there on the one side, and on the other this side,and another on that side. inner temple, and the porches of side, an hundred cubits, with the ho brought me to the temple, and narrow windows, and the galleries Ezek. xli, 1-7, 9--26. Afterward the court; The door-posts, and the measured the posts, six cubits round about on their three stories, broad on the one side, and six over against the door, ceiled with cubits broad on the other side, wood round about, and from the which was the breadth of the ta- ground up to the windows, and bernacle. And the breadth of the the windows were covered; To door was ten cubits; and the sides that above the door, even unto of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on by all the wall round about, withthe other side: and he measured in and without, by measure. And the inner house and without, and the length thereof, forty cubits, it was made with cherubims and Then went he inward, and meaand the breadth, twenty cubits, palm-trees, so that a palm-tree sured the post of the door two rub; and every cherub had two cubits, and the door six cubits, faces; So that the face of a man was between a cherub and a cheand the breadth of the door seven cubits. lion toward the palm-tree on the was toward the palm-tree on the other side: it was made through one side, and the face of a young all the house round about. From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm-trees made, and on the wall of the temple. The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the one as the appearance of the other. sanctuary; the appearance of the The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD. And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the other door. two leaves for the one door, and And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. And there were narrow windows and palm-trees and upon the side-chambers of side, on the sides of the porch, on the ore side and on the other the house, and thick planks.

length thereof, twenty cubits, and
So he measured
the breadth twenty cubits, before
the
the temple; and he said unto me,
This is the most holy place. After
he measured the wall of the house
six cubits; and the breadth of
every side-chamber four cubits,
round about the house on every
three, one over another, and thirty
side. And the side-chambers cere
in order, and they entered into
the wall which was of the house
for the side-chambers roundabout,
that they might have hold, but
they had not hold in the wall of
the house. And there was an en-
larging, and a winding about still
upward to the side-chambers; for
the winding about of the house
went still upward round about
of the house was still upward, and
the house: therefore the breadth
so increased from the lowest cham-
ber to the highest by the midst.
The thickness of the wall, which
was tor the side-chamber without,
was five cubits; and that which
chambers that were within. And
was left was the place of the side-
between the chambers was the
about the house on every side.
wideness of twenty cubits round
And the doors of the side-cham-

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Ezek. xlil, 1-13, 15-20. Then he brought me forth into the outer Court,theway toward the north;and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the outer court,was gallery against galleryin three stories. And beforo

the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the

north. Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries

reeds, with the measuring-reed | rael, hath entered in by it, there-
round about. He measured the fore it shall be shut. It is for the
south side, five hundred reeds. prince; the prince, he shall sit in
He it to eat bread before the LORD;
with the measuring-reed.
turned about to the west side, he shall enter by the way of the
and measured five hundred reeds, porch of that gate, and shall go
with the measuring- reed. Io out by the way of the same. Then
measured it by the four sides: it brought he me the way of the
had a wall round about five hun- northi gate before the house: and
dred recds long, and five hundred I looked, and, behold, the glory of
broad, to make a separation be- the LORD filled the house of the
tween the sanctuary and the pro- LORD; and I fell upon my face.
And thou shalt say to the rebel-
fane place.
lious, even to the house of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord Gon, O ye
house of Israel, let it suffice you
of all your abominations. In that
heart, and uncircumcised in flesh,
ye have brought into my sanciu-
ary strangers, uncircumcised in

Ezek. xi, 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12-17.
Afterward he brought me to the
gate, even the gate that looketh
toward the east: And the glory of

the way of the gate whose pro-
the LORD came into the house by

were higher than these, than the spect is toward the east. So the to be in my sanctuary, to pollute

lower, and than the middlemost of the building. For they were in

spirit took me up, and brought me
into the inner court; and, behold,

it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood,

three stories, but had not pillars the glory of the LORD filled the and they have broken my cove

as the pillars of the courts: there fore the building wes straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. And the wall that was without

over against the chambers, toward the outer court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereot was fifty cubits. For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubi's. And from under these chambers was the entry on

the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court. The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over agalust the building. And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they; and all their goings out were both according to their fashious, and according to their doors. And according to the doors

of the chambers that were toward

the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. Then

house.

threshold by my thresholds, and
In their setting of the
their post by my posts, and their
wall between me and them, they
have even defiled my holy name
by their abominations that they
have committed: wherefore I have
consumed them in mine anger.
Now let them put away their
whoredom, and the carcases of
their kings, far from me, and I
will dwell in the midst of them
for ever. This is the law of the
house; Upon the top of the moun-
about shall be most holy. Behold,
tain the whole limit thereof round
this is the law of the house. And
these are the measures of the
altar after the cubits: The cubit is
a cubit and an hand-breadth; even
the bottom shall be a cubit, and
the breadth a cubit, and the bor-
der thereof by the edge thereof
round about shall be a span: and
this shall be the higher place of
the altar. And from the bottom
upon the ground even to the
lower settle shall be two cubits,
and the breadth one cubit; and
from the lesser settle even to the
greater settle shall be four cubits,
and the breadth one cubit. So the
altar shall be four cubits; and from
the altar and upward shall be tour
horns. And the altar shall be
twelve cubits long, twelve broad,
square in the four squares thereof.
And the settle shall be fourteen
cubits long, and fourteen broad in
the four squares thereof; and the
border about it shall be half a
cubit; and the bottom thereof shall
be a cubit about; and his stairs
shall look toward the cast.

said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place,they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meatoffering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering, for the place is holy. Now, when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. He measured the, east side with the measuring-reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about. He measured the north side, five hundred

Ezek. xliv, 1-4, 6-9. Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looketh toward the cast, and it was shut. Then said the LORD unto me, This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Is

nations. And ye have not kept
nant, because of all your abil
the charge of mine holy things
but ye have set keepers of my
charge in my sanctuary for your
selves. Thus saith the Lord God,
No stranger, uncircumcised in
heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh,
shall enter into my sanctuary, of
children of Israel
any stranger that is among the

Ezek. xlvi, 8-10. 19-24. And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the go forth by the way thereof. But porch of that gate, and he shall when the people of the land shall

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solemn feasts, he that entereth in come before the LORD in the by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. After he brought me through the entry, which was at the sideof the gate in to the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a plac on the two sides westward. Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the

trespass-offering and the sin-offering, where they shall bake the meat-offering; that they bear them not out into the outer court, to sanctify the people. Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold in every corner of the court there was a court. In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long. and thirty broad: these four corners were of one mea

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