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Ezekiel

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Introduction to Ezekiel:
Author: Ezekiel (1:3).Time of Writing: The sixth century B.C.Place of Writing: By the river Chebar, in the village of Tel-abib (1:1; 3:15), not far from the city of Babylon.Time Period Covered: A period of twenty-two years, from 593 B.C., the fifth year of Jehoiachin's captivity (1:2), to 571 B.C., the twenty-seventh year (29:17).

Subject of Ezekiel:
God's Appearing to Man in Glory,
His Judgment upon Both His People and the Nations, and
His Recovery of His Chosen People for
the Building Up of a Dwelling Place as a Mutual Abode
and Complete Expression for and of Himself

Ezekiel

Chapter 1 of 48

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I.  Introduction — 1:1-3

Ezk 1:1 - Now in the 1thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the month, while I was among the captives by the 2river Chebar, the 3heavens were aopened and I saw 4bvisions of God.
Ezk 1:2 - On the fifth of the month (it was the 1fifth year of King aJehoiachin’s captivity)
Ezk 1:3 - The 1word of Jehovah came expressly to 2Ezekiel the 3priest, the son of 2Buzi, in the land of the 4Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the 5ahand of Jehovah was upon him there.
A.  The wind, the cloud, the fire, and the electrum — v. 4
Ezk 1:4 - And I looked, and there came a astorm 1wind from the 2bnorth, a great 3ccloud and a 4fire flashing incessantly; and there was a brightness around it, and from the midst of it there was something like the sight of 5delectrum, from the midst of the fire.
B.  The four living creatures — vv. 5-14
Ezk 1:5 - And from the midst of it there came the likeness of 1four aliving creatures. And this was their appearance: They had the likeness of a 2bman.
Ezk 1:6 - And every one had four 1afaces, and every one of them had four 2bwings.
Ezk 1:7 - And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a acalf’s 1foot; and they sparkled like the sight of burnished bbronze.
Ezk 1:8 - And the 1ahands of a man were under their wings on their four sides. And the four of them had their faces and their wings thus:
Ezk 1:9 - Their awings were 1joined one to another; they did not bturn as they went; each went 2straight forward.
Ezk 1:10 - As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a 1aman; and the four of them had the face of a 1blion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an 1ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an 1eagle.
Ezk 1:11 - 1And thus their faces were. And their wings were spread out upward; two wings of each were 2joined one to another, and atwo 3covered their bodies.
Ezk 1:12 - And each awent 1straight forward; wherever the 2Spirit was to bgo, they went; they did not turn as they went.
Ezk 1:13 - As for the likeness of the living creatures, their aappearance was like burning 1coals of fire, like the appearance of 1torches; 2the fire went to and fro among the living creatures, and the fire was 3bright; and out of the fire went forth 4lightning.
Ezk 1:14 - And the living creatures 1ran ato and fro like the appearance of a blightning bolt.
C.  The high and awesome wheels — vv. 15-21
Ezk 1:15 - And as I watched the living creatures, I saw a 1awheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, for each of their four 2faces.
Ezk 1:16 - The aappearance of the wheels and their workmanship were like the sight of 1bberyl. And the four of them had 2one likeness; that is, their appearance and their workmanship were as it were 3a wheel within a wheel.
Ezk 1:17 - Whenever they went, they went in their 1four directions; they did not turn as they went.
Ezk 1:18 - As for their rims, they were 1high and they were 1awesome; and the rims of the four of them were full of 2aeyes all around.
Ezk 1:19 - And whenever the living creatures 1awent, the wheels went beside them; and whenever the living creatures were lifted up above the earth, the wheels were lifted up also.
Ezk 1:20 - Wherever the 1Spirit was to ago, 2they went—wherever the Spirit was to go. And the wheels were lifted up alongside 2them, for the 1Spirit of the living creature was in the bwheels.
Ezk 1:21 - Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still; and whenever those were lifted up above the earth, the wheels were lifted up alongside them; for the Spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
D.  The expanse like the sight of awesome crystal — vv. 22-25
Ezk 1:22 - And over the heads of the living creature there was the likeness of an 1aexpanse, like the sight of awesome bcrystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
Ezk 1:23 - And under the expanse one pair of their wings went 1straight out, one toward the other; each had another pair 2covering their bodies on this side and on that side.
Ezk 1:24 - And I heard the asound of their wings, like the sound of great bwaters, like the 1voice of the Almighty, as they went; it was the sound of a tumult, like the sound of an army. Whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.
Ezk 1:25 - And there was a 1voice from above the expanse that was over their heads. When they stood still, they dropped their wings.
E.  The man on the throne — vv. 26-28
Ezk 1:26 - And above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a 1athrone, like the appearance of a 2bsapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was One in appearance like a 3man, above it.
Ezk 1:27 - aThen I saw something like the sight of 1electrum, like the appearance of fire encased all around, from the appearance of His loins and upward; and from the appearance of His loins and downward, I saw something like the appearance of 1fire. And there was brightness all around Him.
Ezk 1:28 - Like the appearance of the 1arainbow that is in the cloud on a day of rain, such was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I bfell on my face and I heard the voice of someone speaking.

Ezekiel

Chapter 2 of 48

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III.  God judging His people and the heathen nations as a consuming fire — 2:1-32:32

A.  God's judgment of Israel in their degradation — 2:1-24:27
1.  Ezekiel's call and commission — 2:1-3:27
Ezk 2:1 - Then He said to me, aSon of man, stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you.
Ezk 2:2 - And the Spirit aentered into me when He spoke to me and caused me to stand up on my feet. And I heard Him who spoke to me.
Ezk 2:3 - And He said to me, Son of man, I am asending you to the children of Israel, to 1rebellious heathen who have brebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me unto this very day;
Ezk 2:4 - And they are impudent and ahard-hearted children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 2:5 - And they, whether they ahear or not—for they are a brebellious house—they will cknow that a prophet has been in their midst.
Ezk 2:6 - And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and do not be afraid of their words; though 1thistles and athorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions, do not be afraid of their words and do not be dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house.
Ezk 2:7 - And you shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or not; for they are 1rebellious.
Ezk 2:8 - But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth and aeat what I give you.
Ezk 2:9 - And I looked, and there was a hand, put forth toward me; and in it there was a scroll book.
Ezk 2:10 - And He spread it before me. And it was written on the front and back, and on it were written lamentations, mourning, and woe.

Ezekiel

Chapter 3 of 48

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Ezk 3:1 - Then He said to me, aSon of man, eat what you find; beat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
Ezk 3:2 - So I opened my mouth, and He gave me that scroll to eat.
Ezk 3:3 - And He said to me, Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your inward parts with this scroll that I am giving you. And I aate it, and it was like honey in my mouth in its bsweetness.
Ezk 3:4 - Then He said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.
Ezk 3:5 - For you are being sent not to a people of strange speech and unintelligible language but to the house of Israel,
Ezk 3:6 - Not to many peoples of strange speech and unintelligible language, whose words you cannot understand. If I were to send you to such, they would hear you;
Ezk 3:7 - But the house of Israel is not willing to hear you, for they are not willing to hear Me, because all the house of Israel is aobstinate and stiff-hearted.
Ezk 3:8 - I am now making your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Ezk 3:9 - Like adamant, harder than aflint, I am making your forehead; do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their faces, for they are a brebellious house.
Ezk 3:10 - Moreover He said to me, Son of man, all My words that I will speak to you take into your heart and hear with your ears.
Ezk 3:11 - And go to those of the acaptivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah; whether they hear or not.
Ezk 3:12 - Then the aSpirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great quaking, saying: Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from His place!
Ezk 3:13 - And I heard the asound of the wings of the living creatures touching one another and the sound of the wheels alongside them and the sound of a great quaking.
Ezk 3:14 - And the aSpirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the rage of my spirit, and the bhand of Jehovah was strong upon me.
Ezk 3:15 - And I came to those of the captivity at Tel-abib who dwelt by the river Chebar; and where they dwelt, there I sat for seven days in their midst appalled.
Ezk 3:16 - And at the end of seven days the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 3:17 - aSon of man, I have appointed you as a 1bwatchman to the house of Israel, and you will hear the word from My mouth and will give them warnings from Me.
Ezk 3:18 - When I say to a wicked one, You shall surely die, and you do not warn him nor speak to warn the wicked one from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked one will die for his iniquity, but his ablood I will require at your hand.
Ezk 3:19 - Yet if you warn the wicked one and he does not turn from his wickedness nor from his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity and you have 1delivered your soul.
Ezk 3:20 - And when a righteous one turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and his righteous actions, which he had done, will not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
Ezk 3:21 - And if you warn a righteous one so that the righteous one does not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he was warned; and you have delivered your soul.
Ezk 3:22 - And the ahand of Jehovah was upon me there; and He said to me, Arise, go forth to the plain, and there I will speak with you.
Ezk 3:23 - So I arose and went forth to the plain. And the aglory of Jehovah stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
Ezk 3:24 - Then the aSpirit entered into me and caused me to stand up on my feet; and He spoke with me and said to me, Go, shut yourself up within your house.
Ezk 3:25 - As for you, son of man, they will now put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.
Ezk 3:26 - And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be adumb and not one who reproves them, for they are a rebellious house.
Ezk 3:27 - But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you will say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Let him who hears hear, and let him who refuses refuse; for they are a arebellious house.

Ezekiel

Chapter 4 of 48

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2.  The judgment on Jerusalem — 4:1-5:17
Ezk 4:1 - Now you, ason of man, take a tile and set it before you; and inscribe on it a city, Jerusalem;
Ezk 4:2 - And lay a asiege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it, and set up camps against it, and set battering rams all around it.
Ezk 4:3 - And take an iron plate and set it as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face against it; and it will be under siege, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezk 4:4 - Moreover lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.
Ezk 4:5 - And I have appointed to you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; and you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezk 4:6 - And when you have completed them, lie down again, on your right side; and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days; I have appointed to you a aday for each year.
Ezk 4:7 - Then toward the siege of Jerusalem you shall set your face with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against it.
Ezk 4:8 - And I will then put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, until you have completed the days of your siege.
Ezk 4:9 - And take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side, for three-hundred ninety days, you shall eat it.
Ezk 4:10 - And your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.
Ezk 4:11 - And the water that you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; at fixed times you shall drink it.
Ezk 4:12 - And as a barley cake you shall eat it; on human excrement you shall bake it in their sight.
Ezk 4:13 - And Jehovah said, Thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread aunclean among the nations to which I will drive them.
Ezk 4:14 - Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah. Indeed my soul has never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have not aeaten anything that has died of itself or has been torn to pieces, nor has any babominable flesh entered into my mouth.
Ezk 4:15 - And He said to me, See, I give you cow’s dung instead of human excrement, and you will make your bread over it.
Ezk 4:16 - Then He said to me, Son of man, I am now abreaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in horror;
Ezk 4:17 - Because they will lack bread and water, and they will be horrified at each other and will arot in their iniquity.

Ezekiel

Chapter 5 of 48

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Ezk 5:1 - And you, ason of man, take a sharp sword; take it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and over your beard; then take scales to weigh with, and divide 1the hair.
Ezk 5:2 - One third you shall burn in the middle of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword after them.
Ezk 5:3 - And you shall take from there a afew in number and bind them in the edges of your garment.
Ezk 5:4 - And you shall take again from them and cast them into the midst of the fire; and you shall burn them in the fire; from them fire will go forth against all the house of Israel.
Ezk 5:5 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and around her are countries.
Ezk 5:6 - But she has rebelled against My 1ordinances in wickedness more than the nations and against My 1statutes more than the countries that surround her, for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.
Ezk 5:7 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have been more turbulent than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes and have not kept My ordinances and have not even kept the ordinances of the nations that surround you;
Ezk 5:8 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezk 5:9 - And I will do among you that which I have not done and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.
Ezk 5:10 - Therefore fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments upon you, and I will ascatter all your remnant toward all the winds.
Ezk 5:11 - Therefore aas I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and all your abominations, therefore I will also 1withdraw My beye that it not pity you, nor will I spare.
Ezk 5:12 - One third of you will die by apestilence, and they will be consumed by famine in the midst of you; and one third will fall by the sword surrounding you; and one third I will bscatter toward all the winds, and I will draw a sword after them.
Ezk 5:13 - Thus My anger will be spent, and I will cause My wrath to rest upon them, and I will be comforted; and they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal when I spend My wrath upon them.
Ezk 5:14 - Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezk 5:15 - Thus 1you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations that surround you, when I execute judgments upon you in anger and wrath and furious rebukes. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Ezk 5:16 - When I send against them the evil arrows of famine, which are for destruction and which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and will break your staff of bread.
Ezk 5:17 - Thus I will send upon you afamine and evil beasts, and they will make you childless; and pestilence and blood will pass through you, and I will bring a sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken.

Ezekiel

Chapter 6 of 48

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3.  The judgment on the land of Israel — 6:1-7:27
Ezk 6:1 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 6:2 - aSon of man, set your bface toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
Ezk 6:3 - And say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, I am now bringing a sword upon you, and I will destroy your ahigh places.
Ezk 6:4 - And your altars will be desolated, and your sun images will be broken; and I will make your slain fall before your idols.
Ezk 6:5 - And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezk 6:6 - In all the places that you dwell the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolated, so that your altars may be laid waste and desolated, and your idols may be broken and brought to an end, and your sun images may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.
Ezk 6:7 - And the slain will fall in your midst, and you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 6:8 - But I will leave a 1aremnant, in that you will have those who have escaped the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the countries.
Ezk 6:9 - And those of you who escape will aremember Me among the nations to which they are carried away, how I am broken with their heart of harlotry, which turned away from Me, and with their eyes that go as harlots after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils that they have done, for all their abominations.
Ezk 6:10 - And they will know that I am Jehovah; I have not said in vain that I would do this ill to them.
Ezk 6:11 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they will fall by sword, famine, and pestilence.
Ezk 6:12 - He who is far off will die by the pestilence, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who is left remaining and is besieged will die by the famine; thus I will spend My wrath on them.
Ezk 6:13 - Then you will aknow that I am Jehovah, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy terebinth, the places where they offered a sweet savor to all their idols.
Ezk 6:14 - So I will stretch out My ahand against them and will make the land desolate, indeed, more desolate than the wilderness of Diblath, in all the places that they dwell; and they will know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 7 of 48

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Ezk 7:1 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 7:2 - Now you, ason of man, thus says the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel, An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Ezk 7:3 - Now the end is upon you. And I will send My anger against you and will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring upon you all your abominations.
Ezk 7:4 - aAnd My beye will not pity you, nor will I spare; but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will cknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 7:5 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Ill, a unique ill! It has now come.
Ezk 7:6 - An end is coming; the end is coming! It has awakened against you; it has now come.
Ezk 7:7 - Doom has come to you, you who inhabit the land; the time has come; the day is near—tumult and not the joyful shout on the mountains.
Ezk 7:8 - Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; and I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you.
Ezk 7:9 - aMy eye will not pity, nor will I spare. I will render to you according to your ways, and your abominations will be in your midst; and you will know that it is I, Jehovah, who strikes.
Ezk 7:10 - Indeed the day—it has now come. Doom has gone forth. The rod has blossomed; pride has budded;
Ezk 7:11 - Violence has risen up as a rod of wickedness. Nothing of them remains: nothing of their multitude, nothing of their wealth, and no eminence among them.
Ezk 7:12 - The time has come; the day has drawn near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.
Ezk 7:13 - For the seller will not return to what he has sold, while they live among the living; for the vision, which regards all 1the land’s multitude, will not be turned; not one of them will assure his life by his iniquity.
Ezk 7:14 - They have blown the atrumpet and have made everything ready, but no one goes to the battle; for My wrath is against all the land’s multitude.
Ezk 7:15 - The sword is outside, and pestilence and famine are inside: He who is in the field will die by the sword, and he who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.
Ezk 7:16 - And those of them who escape will escape, and they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his iniquity.
Ezk 7:17 - All hands will adrop, and all knees will melt into water.
Ezk 7:18 - And they will gird themselves with sackcloth, and shuddering will cover them; and on all their faces there will be shame, and baldness on all their heads.
Ezk 7:19 - Their silver will they cast into the streets, and their gold will be an impurity; their asilver and their gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of Jehovah’s overflowing wrath. They cannot satisfy their souls nor fill their inward parts, for their iniquity has become a stumbling block to them.
Ezk 7:20 - And they turned the beauty of His ornaments into pride; and they made the images of their abominations, of their detestable things, with it; therefore I make it an impurity to them.
Ezk 7:21 - And I will give it into the hands of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
Ezk 7:22 - I will also turn My face from them, and they will aprofane My secret place; indeed the robbers will enter it and profane it.
Ezk 7:23 - Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
Ezk 7:24 - Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses; and I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places will be profaned.
Ezk 7:25 - Anguish comes; and they seek peace, but there is none.
Ezk 7:26 - Disaster upon disaster will come, and there will be rumor upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a aprophet, but instruction will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
Ezk 7:27 - The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with horror, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their ways I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them; and they will aknow that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 8 of 48

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4.  The glory of Jehovah departing — 8:1-11:25
Ezk 8:1 - And in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, as I sat in my house and the elders of Judah sat before me, the ahand of the Lord Jehovah fell upon me there.
Ezk 8:2 - Then I looked, and there was a alikeness like the appearance of 1fire: from His loins and downward, the appearance of fire; and from His loins and upward something like the appearance of brightness, like the sight of 2belectrum.
Ezk 8:3 - And He stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head; and the aSpirit lifted me up between the earth and heaven and bbrought me to Jerusalem in the visions of God, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where the seat of the idol of 1jealousy was, which cprovokes to jealousy.
Ezk 8:4 - And the aglory of the God of Israel was there, like the appearance that I saw in the plain.
Ezk 8:5 - Then He said to me, aSon of man, Lift up your eyes now toward the north. Thus I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and there, toward the north at the altar gate, was this idol of jealousy at the entry.
Ezk 8:6 - And He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, that I should be far from My sanctuary? But you will yet see greater abominations.
Ezk 8:7 - Then He brought me to the entrance of the court; and I looked, and there was a hole in the wall.
Ezk 8:8 - And He said to me, Son of man, dig now through the wall. So I dug through the wall, and there was now an entrance.
Ezk 8:9 - And He said to me, Go and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here.
Ezk 8:10 - Thus I entered and looked, and there were every form of creeping thing and detestable beast and all the idols of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.
Ezk 8:11 - And standing before them were seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each with his censer in his hand and the smell of the incense cloud went up.
Ezk 8:12 - And He said to me, Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each in the room of his engraved images? For they say, Jehovah does not see us; Jehovah has aforsaken the land.
Ezk 8:13 - And He said to me, You will yet again see greater abominations that they are committing.
Ezk 8:14 - Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Jehovah that was toward the north; and women weeping for 1Tammuz were sitting there.
Ezk 8:15 - And He said to me, Do you see, son of man? You will yet again see greater abominations than these.
Ezk 8:16 - Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah; and there, at the entrance of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east; and they were aworshipping the sun toward the east.
Ezk 8:17 - And He said to me, Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they also fill the land with violence and again and again provoke Me to anger? And now they are putting the branch to their nose.
Ezk 8:18 - Therefore I will also deal with them in wrath. My aeye will not pity, nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.

Ezekiel

Chapter 9 of 48

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Ezk 9:1 - Then He cried out in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Draw near, you who 1oversee the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.
Ezk 9:2 - And then six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and there was one man among them, clothed in alinen, with a scribe’s inkhorn by his side. And they went and stood beside the bronze altar.
Ezk 9:3 - And the aglory of the God of Israel 1went up from the cherub on which it had been to the threshold of the house. And He called out to the man clothed in linen, who had the scribe’s inkhorn by his side.
Ezk 9:4 - And Jehovah said to him, Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a 1amark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and bgroan because of all the abominations that are committed in its midst.
Ezk 9:5 - And to the others He said in my hearing, Pass through the city behind him and strike; do not let your eye pity, and do not spare.
Ezk 9:6 - Utterly slay the old man and the young man, and the maiden, the little child, and the women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark. And you shall begin at My sanctuary. Thus they began with the elders who were before the house.
Ezk 9:7 - And He said to them, Defile the house and fill the courts with the slain; go forth. And they went forth and struck the people in the city.
Ezk 9:8 - And as they were striking them and I was left alone, I afell on my face, and I cried out and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Are You bdestroying the whole remnant of Israel in Your pouring out of Your wrath upon Jerusalem?
Ezk 9:9 - And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; and the land is full of blood, and the city, full of perverted justice; for they say, Jehovah has aforsaken the land, and Jehovah does not see.
Ezk 9:10 - But as for Me, My aeye will not pity, nor will I spare; I will bring their ways upon their head.
Ezk 9:11 - And the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, brought back a report, saying, I have done as You have commanded me.

Ezekiel

Chapter 10 of 48

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Ezk 10:1 - 1Then I looked, and there, in the aexpanse that was over the heads of the cherubim, appeared the likeness of a throne over them, like the appearance of a sapphire stone.
Ezk 10:2 - And He spoke to the man clothed in alinen and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, under the cherub, and fill the hollow of your hands with bcoals of fire from between the cherubim, and cscatter them over the city. And he went in, in my sight.
Ezk 10:3 - And the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.
Ezk 10:4 - And the aglory of Jehovah rose up from the cherub to a place above the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of Jehovah.
Ezk 10:5 - And the asound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks.
Ezk 10:6 - And when He had commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, the man went and stood beside the wheel.
Ezk 10:7 - And the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim toward the fire that was between the cherubim, and he took some up and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen; and the man took it and went forth.
Ezk 10:8 - And with the cherubim appeared the form of a man’s ahand under their wings.
Ezk 10:9 - And I looked, and there were four awheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the sight of bberyl.
Ezk 10:10 - And as for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, as it were a wheel within a wheel.
Ezk 10:11 - As they went, they went in their four directions; they adid not turn as they went, but to the place that the head faced they followed; they did not turn as they went.
Ezk 10:12 - And their whole body, their backs, their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of aeyes all around, their wheels belonging to the four of them.
Ezk 10:13 - The wheels were called in my hearing the whirling wheels.
Ezk 10:14 - And every one had four afaces. The first face was the face of a cherub; the second face was the face of a man; the third, the face of a lion; and the fourth, the face of an eagle.
Ezk 10:15 - Then the cherubim rose up. This was the living creature that I had seen by the river Chebar.
Ezk 10:16 - And whenever the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and whenever the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth, the wheels also did not turn from beside them.
Ezk 10:17 - When those stood still, these stood still; and when those rose up, these rose up with them; for the aSpirit of the living creature was in them.
Ezk 10:18 - And the aglory of Jehovah went forth from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim.
Ezk 10:19 - aAnd the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels were next to them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of Jehovah, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezk 10:20 - This was the living creature that I had seen beneath the God of Israel aby the river Chebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
Ezk 10:21 - Each one had four afaces, and each one had four wings; and the likeness of a man’s hands was under their wings.
Ezk 10:22 - And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces that I had seen by the river Chebar, both their appearance and themselves. Each went 1straight forward.

Ezekiel

Chapter 11 of 48

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Ezk 11:1 - And the aSpirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of Jehovah that faces east; and there, at the entrance of the gate, were twenty-five men. And among them I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.
Ezk 11:2 - And He said to me, aSon of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil counsel in this city,
Ezk 11:3 - Who say, It is not the time to build houses; the city is the apot and we are the flesh.
Ezk 11:4 - Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man.
Ezk 11:5 - Then the aSpirit of Jehovah fell upon me and said to me, Say, Thus says Jehovah, You speak in this way, O house of Israel, for I know the things that come up in your spirit.
Ezk 11:6 - You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.
Ezk 11:7 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Your slain whom you have put in the midst of the city, they will be the flesh, and the city, the pot; but you 1I will bring forth from the midst of it.
Ezk 11:8 - You have feared the sword, so I will bring a sword upon you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 11:9 - I will bring you forth from the midst of it and will give you into the hands of strangers; and I will execute judgments upon you.
Ezk 11:10 - You will fall by the sword; I will judge you in the borders of Israel, and you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 11:11 - The city will not be a pot to you so that you will be in its midst as flesh; I will judge you in the borders of Israel.
Ezk 11:12 - And you will know that I am Jehovah; for you have not walked in My statutes, nor have you done My ordinances, but you have done according to the ordinances of the nations that surround you.
Ezk 11:13 - And when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died; and I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice, and I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! Are You making a full end to the remnant of Israel?
Ezk 11:14 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 11:15 - Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, your kinsmen and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Stay far away from Jehovah; to us was this land given as an inheritance.
Ezk 11:16 - Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Though I have sent them far away among the nations and though I have ascattered them among the countries, I have been a 1bsanctuary to them for a little while in the countries where they went.
Ezk 11:17 - Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will agather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Ezk 11:18 - And they will come there and take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.
Ezk 11:19 - 1aAnd I will give them one bheart, and a new cspirit I will put within 2them; and I will take the dheart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
Ezk 11:20 - That they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them; and they will be aMy people, and I will be their God.
Ezk 11:21 - But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their ways upon their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 11:22 - Then the cherubim lifted up their awings, and the wheels were next to them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezk 11:23 - And the 1aglory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the 2mountain which is beast of the city.
Ezk 11:24 - And the aSpirit lifted me up and brought me to Chaldea, to the captives, in a vision by the Spirit of God. And the vision that I had seen went up from me.
Ezk 11:25 - Then I told the captives all the things that Jehovah had shown me.

Ezekiel

Chapter 12 of 48

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5.  God confirming the prophecies of judgment — 12:1-24:27
a.  Through Ezekiel as a sign of disgrace — 12:1-28(1)  Ezekiel's baggage — vv. 1-16
Ezk 12:1 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 12:2 - aSon of man, you are dwelling in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see but bdo not see and have cears to hear but do not hear; for they are a drebellious house.
Ezk 12:3 - Therefore you, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for captivity, and go into captivity by day in their sight; indeed you shall go into captivity from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will see that they are a rebellious house.
Ezk 12:4 - And you shall bring your baggage forth by day in their sight like baggage for captivity, and you shall go forth in the evening in their sight as captives go forth.
Ezk 12:5 - In their sight you shall dig through the wall and bring your baggage through it.
Ezk 12:6 - In their sight you shall take it up on your shoulder; in the dark you shall bring it forth. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the ground, for I have given you as a asign to the house of Israel.
Ezk 12:7 - And I did as I was commanded: I brought forth my baggage by day like baggage for captivity, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hand; in the dark I brought forth the baggage; on my shoulder I took it up in their sight.
Ezk 12:8 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me in the morning, saying,
Ezk 12:9 - Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing?
Ezk 12:10 - Say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This burden pertains to the prince in Jerusalem and to all the house of Israel, which is in it.
Ezk 12:11 - Say, I am a sign of you. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity;
Ezk 12:12 - And the aprince who is in their midst will take up his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and will go forth; they will dig through the wall in order to bring his baggage forth through it; he will hide his face so that he does not see the 1land with his eyes.
Ezk 12:13 - I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he will not see it and will die there.
Ezk 12:14 - And all who surround him to help him and all his armies, I will ascatter into every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezk 12:15 - And they will know that I am Jehovah, when I ascatter them among the nations and disperse them among the countries.
Ezk 12:16 - But I will keep a asmall number of men from among them from sword, from famine, and from pestilence that they may recount all their abominations among the nations to which they go; and they will know that I am Jehovah.
(2)  Ezekiel's trembling — vv. 17-28
Ezk 12:17 - Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 12:18 - Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxious carefulness;
Ezk 12:19 - And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, They will eat their bread with anxious carefulness and drink their water with horror so that 1their land may be emptied of its fullness because of the violence of all who dwell in it.
Ezk 12:20 - And the inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation; and you will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 12:21 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 12:22 - Son of man, what is this proverb that you all have concerning the land of Israel, saying, The days are aprolonged and every vision fails?
Ezk 12:23 - Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will bring this proverb to an end, so that they will no longer have the proverb in Israel. But say to them, The days have drawn near as well as the fulfillment of every vision.
Ezk 12:24 - For there will no longer be vain vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.
Ezk 12:25 - For it is I, Jehovah, who speaks; whatever word I speak will be performed; it will no longer be delayed; for in your days, O arebellious house, I will speak a word and I will perform it, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 12:26 - And again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 12:27 - Son of man, the house of Israel now says, The vision that he sees pertains to things many days from now, and he prophesies concerning distant times.
Ezk 12:28 - Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, No words of Mine will be delayed any longer, but the word that I have spoken will be performed, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 13 of 48

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b.  Against the false prophets — 13:1-23
Ezk 13:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 13:2 - aSon of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who bprophesy out of their heart, Hear the word of Jehovah:
Ezk 13:3 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!
Ezk 13:4 - Your prophets, O Israel, have become like afoxes among ruins.
Ezk 13:5 - You have not gone up to the abreaches nor built up the wall for the house of Israel that it might stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.
Ezk 13:6 - aThey have seen vanity and deceptive divination, they who say, Jehovah declares! when Jehovah has not sent them; but they expect that He will fulfill their word.
Ezk 13:7 - Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken deceptive divination when you say, Jehovah declares! and I have not spoken?
Ezk 13:8 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have spoken vanity and have seen deceptive visions, therefore I am now against you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 13:9 - And My hand will be upon the prophets who see vanity and perform deceptive divination; they shall not be in the council of My people, nor shall they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you will know that I am the Lord Jehovah;
Ezk 13:10 - Because, indeed because, they have led My people astray, saying, aPeace, when there is no peace; but it is as if someone builds up a bwall, and immediately they plaster it over with untempered mortar.
Ezk 13:11 - Tell those who plaster over with untempered mortar that it will fall. There will be a flooding arain; and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a tempestuous wind will break it down.
Ezk 13:12 - Indeed when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?
Ezk 13:13 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will cause a tempestuous wind to break forth in My wrath, and there will be a flooding rain in My anger, and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
Ezk 13:14 - And I will tear down the wall that you plastered over with untempered mortar and will tear it down to the ground, so that its foundation is uncovered; and it will fall, and you will be consumed in the midst of it; and you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 13:15 - And I will spend My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it over with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, The wall is not there, and those who plaster it over are not there,
Ezk 13:16 - The prophets of Israel, who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and see visions of peace for her, when there is no peace, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 13:17 - And you, son of man, set your face toward the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their heart, and prophesy against them
Ezk 13:18 - And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the women who sew bands on all the wrists and make caps for the heads of persons of every stature, so as to hunt down souls! Will you hunt down the souls of My people while you preserve alive the souls of others for yourselves?
Ezk 13:19 - And you have profaned Me before My people for some handfuls of barley and for some pieces of bread by putting to death some people who should not die and preserving alive other people who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to your lies.
Ezk 13:20 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now against your bands with which you hunt down souls there as you would birds; and I will tear them off your arms and will release the souls, which souls you hunt down as you would birds.
Ezk 13:21 - I will also tear off your caps and will deliver My people from your hand, and they will no longer be in your hand to be hunted down; and you will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 13:22 - Because you discouraged the heart of the righteous man with lies, though I Myself did not pain him, and strengthened the hands of the wicked man so that he would not turn from his evil way and you would cause him to live,
Ezk 13:23 - Therefore you will no longer see vanity and you will no longer practice divination, but I will deliver My people out of your hand, and you will know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 14 of 48

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c.  Against the idolatrous elders — 14:1-23
Ezk 14:1 - Then some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
Ezk 14:2 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 14:3 - aSon of man, these men have 1set up their idols in their hearts and have put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I be inquired of at all by them?
Ezk 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Each and every man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and goes to the prophet, I, Jehovah, will be found to be answering according to this, according to the multitude of his idols;
Ezk 14:5 - That I may lay hold of the house of Israel in their heart, who have become estranged from Me because of all their idols.
Ezk 14:6 - Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Repent, and turn away from your idols; and turn your faces away from all your abominations;
Ezk 14:7 - For each and every man of the house of Israel or of the sojourners who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and goes to the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, Jehovah, will be found to be answering him by Myself;
Ezk 14:8 - And I will set My face against that man, and I will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people; and you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 14:9 - But if the prophet is enticed to speak a word, I, Jehovah, have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel.
Ezk 14:10 - And they will bear their iniquity: As the iniquity of the prophet is, so the iniquity of him who inquires of him shall be,
Ezk 14:11 - That the house of Israel may no longer astray from Me and may no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions, but that they may be bMy people and I may be their God, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 14:12 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 14:13 - Son of man, when a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand over it and break its staff of bread and send a famine against it and cut off man and beast from it;
Ezk 14:14 - Though these three men, aNoah, bDaniel, and cJob, were in the dmidst of it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 14:15 - If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land so that they 1destroyed its inhabitants and it became so desolate that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,
Ezk 14:16 - Though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they could not deliver even their sons and daughters; they alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
Ezk 14:17 - Or if I were to bring a sword upon that land and were to say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I were to cut off man and beast from it;
Ezk 14:18 - Though these three men were in the midst of it, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they could not deliver even their sons and daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
Ezk 14:19 - Or if I were to send pestilence into that land and were to pour out My wrath upon it in blood so as to cut off man and beast from it,
Ezk 14:20 - Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in the midst of it, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they could not deliver even a son or daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.
Ezk 14:21 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, How much more then when I send My 1afour severe judgments upon Jerusalem, sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence, to cut off man and beast from it!
Ezk 14:22 - Yet there will be a aremnant left in it that will be brought forth, both sons and daughters. They will come forth to you, and you will see their ways and their doings; and you will be comforted for the ill that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.
Ezk 14:23 - And they will comfort you when you see their ways and their doings; and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all that I have done to it, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 15 of 48

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d.  Against the inhabitants of Jerusalem as a vine tree — 15:1-8
Ezk 15:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 15:2 - aSon of man, what becomes of the wood of the 1vine in comparison to every other kind of wood, of the pruned branch in comparison to that which was on the trees of the forest?
Ezk 15:3 - Will wood from it be taken to make anything? Or will men take a peg from it to hang any vessel on?
Ezk 15:4 - Indeed it is put into the fire as afuel; the fire consumes its two ends, and its middle is scorched. Is it good for anything?
Ezk 15:5 - Indeed when it was whole, it was not made into anything. How much less, when fire has consumed it and it has been scorched, can it still be made into anything!
Ezk 15:6 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Like the wood of the avine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezk 15:7 - And I will set My face against them: They have gone forth from the fire, yet the fire will consume them; and you will aknow that I am Jehovah when I set My face against them.
Ezk 15:8 - And I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 16 of 48

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e.  Against Jerusalem as an adulterous wife — 16:1-63
Ezk 16:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 16:2 - aSon of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Ezk 16:3 - And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem, Your aorigin and your birth are from the land of Canaan; your bfather was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.
Ezk 16:4 - As for your birth, on the day that you were aborn your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Ezk 16:5 - No eye pitied you enough to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown into the open field because you were loathed on the day that you were born.
Ezk 16:6 - And I passed by you and saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you while you were in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, Live!
Ezk 16:7 - I caused you to aincrease like the sprouts of the field; and you increased and grew big, and you came to full beauty; your breasts became firm and your hair grew; but you were naked and bare.
Ezk 16:8 - Then I passed by you and saw you; and then was your time a time of love. And I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness; indeed I swore unto you and entered into a 1covenant with you, declares the Lord Jehovah, and you became aMine.
Ezk 16:9 - Then I washed you with water; yes, I washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
Ezk 16:10 - I also clothed you with an embroidered garment and put sandals of porpoise skin on you, and I bound your head with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezk 16:11 - And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck;
Ezk 16:12 - And I put a ring in your nose and earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
Ezk 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and silk and embroidery; you ate fine flour and honey and oil. And you became so very beautiful, and you prospered so as to become royalty.
Ezk 16:14 - And your renown went forth among the nations because of your abeauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor, which I had put upon you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 16:15 - But you trusted in your beauty and went about as a harlot because of your renown, and you poured out your fornications upon everyone who passed by; your beauty became his.
Ezk 16:16 - And you took some of your agarments and made high places of varied colors for yourself, and you committed fornication upon them, things that had never happened before, nor should have been.
Ezk 16:17 - And you took your beautiful articles, made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made images of men for yourself and committed fornication with them.
Ezk 16:18 - And you took your garments of embroidery and covered them, and you offered My oil and My incense before them.
Ezk 16:19 - And My bread, which I had given you, the fine flour and oil and honey that I fed you with, you offered before them as a sweet savor; thus it was, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 16:20 - Moreover you took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne unto Me, and you sacrificed them to those idols to be devoured. Were your fornications a small matter,
Ezk 16:21 - That you slaughtered My children and delivered them up to pass through fire unto those idols?
Ezk 16:22 - And in all your abominations and fornications you did not remember the days of your ayouth, when you were naked and bare and you were kicking about in your blood.
Ezk 16:23 - Then after all your wickedness (Woe, woe to you! declares the Lord Jehovah)
Ezk 16:24 - You built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevation in every open square.
Ezk 16:25 - At the head of every street you built your elevation and caused your beauty to be abhorred; and you spread your legs to everyone who passed by and multiplied your fornications.
Ezk 16:26 - You also committed fornication with the sons of aEgypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger.
Ezk 16:27 - Indeed then I stretched out My hand over you and diminished the food apportioned to you; and I delivered you to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the aPhilistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
Ezk 16:28 - You also committed fornication with the sons of aAssyria because you were not satisfied; and you committed fornication with them and were still not satisfied.
Ezk 16:29 - Furthermore you multiplied your fornications into the land of merchants, aChaldea, yet you were still not satisfied by this.
Ezk 16:30 - How feeble is your heart, declares the Lord Jehovah, in that you do all these things, the actions of an unrestrained harlot!
Ezk 16:31 - When you built your mound at the head of every street and you made your elevation in every open square, you were not like a harlot, by disdaining payment.
Ezk 16:32 - The adulterous wife takes strangers instead of her husband.
Ezk 16:33 - Men give gifts to all harlots, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers and bribed them to come to you from all around for your fornications.
Ezk 16:34 - Thus you are perverse compared to other women in your fornications, in that they do not go after you as a prostitute, but you give payment and no payment is given to you; therefore you are perverse.
Ezk 16:35 - Therefore, you harlot, hear the word of Jehovah:
Ezk 16:36 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered through your fornications with your lovers and with all your abominable idols and because of the blood of your children, whom you gave to them,
Ezk 16:37 - Therefore I am about to gather all your lovers whom you have pleased, indeed, all those whom you loved, with all those whom you hated; thus I will agather them against you from all around, and I will uncover your nakedness to them so that they may see all your nakedness.
Ezk 16:38 - And I will judge you with the judgment that falls on adulterous women and on women who shed blood, and I will bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Ezk 16:39 - And I will give you into their hand; and they will tear down your mounds and break down your elevations; athey will also strip you of your garments and take your beautiful articles, and they will leave you naked and bare.
Ezk 16:40 - And they will raise up a crowd against you and will stone you with stones and will cut you to pieces with their swords.
Ezk 16:41 - And they will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. And I will stop you from being a harlot, and also you will no longer give payment.
Ezk 16:42 - Thus I will cause My wrath against you to rest, and My jealousy will turn from you; and I will be quiet and angry no more.
Ezk 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have 1raged against Me in all these things, therefore, I, for My part, will bring your ways upon your head, declares the Lord Jehovah; and you will not commit this lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
Ezk 16:44 - Indeed everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb concerning you, saying, As the mother is, so is her daughter.
Ezk 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, she who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, they who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your afather was an Amorite.
Ezk 16:46 - And your older sister is aSamaria with her daughters, who lives to your left; and your sister who is younger than you, who lives to your right, is bSodom with her daughters.
Ezk 16:47 - But you have not walked merely according to their ways and have not acted merely according to their abominations; but, as if such were too small a thing, you acted more corruptly in all your ways than they did.
Ezk 16:48 - As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, aSodom your sister, she with her daughters, has not done as you have done, you with your daughters.
Ezk 16:49 - Indeed this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease were with her and her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy;
Ezk 16:50 - And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
Ezk 16:51 - And Samaria has not committed the half of your sins, but you have multiplied your abominations more than they and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have committed.
Ezk 16:52 - Bear then also your disgrace, which you have adjudged to your sisters; through your sins which you have committed more abominably than they, they are more righteous than you; indeed then be also put to shame and bear your disgrace, in that you have made your sisters appear to be more righteous.
Ezk 16:53 - But I will aturn their captivity, the captivity of Sodom with her daughters and the captivity of Samaria with her daughters, as well as the captivity of your captives with them;
Ezk 16:54 - That you may bear your disgrace and be disgraced for all that you have done, in that you were a comfort to them.
Ezk 16:55 - And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters, will return to their former state, and Samaria with her daughters will return to their former state; and you with your daughters will return to your former state.
Ezk 16:56 - Indeed, was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth on the day of your pride,
Ezk 16:57 - Before your wickedness was uncovered? So now you are the reproach of the daughters of 1Aram and all who are around her and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.
Ezk 16:58 - You have borne your own lewdness and abominations, declares Jehovah.
Ezk 16:59 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Ezk 16:60 - Nevertheless I will remember My acovenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an eternal bcovenant for you.
Ezk 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and you will be disgraced when you receive your sisters, the one older than you and the one younger than you; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.
Ezk 16:62 - And I will establish My covenant with you, and you will aknow that I am Jehovah,
Ezk 16:63 - That you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth because of your disgrace, when I make apropitiation for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 17 of 48

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f.  Through a parable of two eagles and a vine — 17:1-24
Ezk 17:1 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 17:2 - aSon of man, put forth a riddle, and utter a parable to the house of Israel;
Ezk 17:3 - And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, A great 1aeagle with great wings, long pinions, and full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and btook away the top of the cedar.
Ezk 17:4 - He cropped off its topmost young 1twig and brought it to a land of merchants; he set it in a city of traders.
Ezk 17:5 - He also took some of the seed of the land and put it in a fertile field; he took it and set it by abundant waters like a willow,
Ezk 17:6 - That it might sprout and become a low, running vine with its branches turned toward him and its roots under him. And it became a vine and produced offshoots and sent forth boughs.
Ezk 17:7 - And there was another great 1eagle with great wings and much plumage; and then this vine abent its roots toward him, and from the beds where it was planted it sent out its branches toward him that he might water it.
Ezk 17:8 - In a good field by abundant waters it had been transplanted so that it would produce branches and bear fruit, that it might be a magnificent vine.
Ezk 17:9 - Say then, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit so that it withers? All its fresh sprouting leaves will wither, even without great strength or a mighty people pulling it up from its roots.
Ezk 17:10 - And indeed, though it has been transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not wither completely once the east wind touches it? In the beds where it was planted it will wither.
Ezk 17:11 - Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 17:12 - Say now to the arebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Say, Indeed the bking of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and he took its 1king and its rulers and brought them to him at Babylon.
Ezk 17:13 - And he took 1someone of the royal seed and made a acovenant with him and put him under an oath. He also took the mighty men of the land,
Ezk 17:14 - That the kingdom might be humble, that it might not lift itself up, but by keeping his covenant, it might stand.
Ezk 17:15 - But he arebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does these things escape? Can he break the covenant and slip away?
Ezk 17:16 - As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely in the land of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, with him in the midst of aBabylon he will die.
Ezk 17:17 - And Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not aid him in battle, when they cast up mounds and build siegeworks to cut off many lives.
Ezk 17:18 - Indeed, he despised the oath by breaking the covenant; yes, he even gave his hand and yet did all these things; he will not slip away.
Ezk 17:19 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, As I live, surely My oath, which he despised, and My covenant, which he broke, I will bring upon his head.
Ezk 17:20 - And I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare; and I will bring him to Babylon and will enter into judgment with him there concerning his unfaithfulness by which he has been unfaithful to Me.
Ezk 17:21 - And all his 1choice men with all his armies will fall by the sword, and those who are left will be ascattered into every wind; and you will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Ezk 17:22 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also take a 1twig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out; from the topmost of its young twigs I will crop off a tender one, and I will transplant it upon a high and prominent mountain.
Ezk 17:23 - On the high mountain of Israel I will transplant it; and it will bear branches and produce fruit and will become a magnificent cedar; and under it all birds of every kind will nest; in the shade of its branches they will nest.
Ezk 17:24 - And all the trees of the field will know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the exalted tree and have exalted the lowly tree, that I have dried up the green tree and have made the dry tree bud. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it.

Ezekiel

Chapter 18 of 48

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g.  Against the parable of the sour grapes — 18:1-32
Ezk 18:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 18:2 - What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, aThe fathers eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
Ezk 18:3 - As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, the use of this parable will no longer be with you in Israel.
Ezk 18:4 - Indeed all souls are Mine; indeed as is the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins, he shall adie.
Ezk 18:5 - But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,
Ezk 18:6 - And does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and does not defile his neighbor’s awife or come near a menstruous woman;
Ezk 18:7 - And if a man does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not plunder but agives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment;
Ezk 18:8 - If he does not lend with interest or collect with an increase; if he withdraws his hand from iniquity and exercises true justice between man and man;
Ezk 18:9 - If he walks in My statutes and keeps My judgments to do truth—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 18:10 - But if he begets a violent son, one who sheds blood or does only one of these things
Ezk 18:11 - (Though he himself has done none of these things); if he even eats upon the mountains or defiles his neighbor’s wife,
Ezk 18:12 - Oppresses the poor and needy, commits plunder, does not restore the pledge, or lifts his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,
Ezk 18:13 - Lends with interest or collects with an increase; then will he live? He shall not live. He has committed all these abominations; he shall surely die. His blood shall be upon him.
Ezk 18:14 - But if he begets a son, and the son sees all the sins of his father that he has done, and he sees and does not do the like;
Ezk 18:15 - He does not eat upon the mountains and does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
Ezk 18:16 - Does not oppress anyone, does not keep the pledge and does not plunder, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
Ezk 18:17 - Takes his hand off the poor and does not collect with interest or increase, does My ordinances and walks in My statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.
Ezk 18:18 - As for his father, because he practiced extortion, plundered his brother, and did that which was not good in the midst of his people, indeed he shall die for his iniquity.
Ezk 18:19 - Yet you say, Why? Does not the son share the punishment for the father’s ainiquity? When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them, he shall surely live.
Ezk 18:20 - The soul who sins, he shall adie; the son shall not share the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor shall the father share the punishment for the son’s iniquity. The righteousness of the righteous man shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man shall be upon him.
Ezk 18:21 - But if the wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezk 18:22 - None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of his righteousness that he has practiced he shall live.
Ezk 18:23 - Do I take pleasure in the adeath of the wicked, declares the Lord Jehovah, and not in his turning away from his ways that he may live?
Ezk 18:24 - But when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity and commits all the abominations that the wicked man commits, will he live? aNone of his righteousness that he has practiced shall be bremembered. Because of his unfaithfulness in which he has acted unfaithfully and because of his sin which he has sinned, because of them, he shall die.
Ezk 18:25 - Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair?
Ezk 18:26 - When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity and dies as a consequence, because of his iniquity that he has practiced he shall die.
Ezk 18:27 - Again, when a wicked man turns from his wickedness that he has practiced and practices justice and righteousness, he shall save his life.
Ezk 18:28 - Because he sees and turns from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Ezk 18:29 - Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not fair. Are My ways not fair, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not fair?
Ezk 18:30 - Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, declares the Lord Jehovah. 1aRepent, and turn away from all your transgressions so that iniquity will not become a stumbling block to you.
Ezk 18:31 - Cast away from you all your transgressions by which you have transgressed, and get yourselves a anew heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezk 18:32 - For I take no pleasure in the adeath of him who dies, declares the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn and live.

Ezekiel

Chapter 19 of 48

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h.  Through Ezekiel's lamentation for the princes of Israel — 19:1-14
Ezk 19:1 - But you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Ezk 19:2 - And say,What was your mother?A lioness among lions.She lay in the midst of young lions;She brought up her whelps.
Ezk 19:3 - When she raised up aone of her whelps,He became a young lion;And he learned to take prey;He devoured men.Ezk 19:4 - Then the nations heard of him;He was captured in their pit,And they abrought him with hooksTo the land of Egypt.Ezk 19:5 - When she saw that she had waited,That her hope was lost,She took aanother one of her whelps;She made him a young lion.Ezk 19:6 - And he went about among the lions;He became a young lion.And he learned to take prey;He devoured men.Ezk 19:7 - And he 1destroyed their citadelsAnd laid waste their cities;And the land and its fullness were horrifiedAt the sound of his roaring.Ezk 19:8 - Then the nations set against himAll around from the provincesAnd spread their net over him;He was captured in their pit.Ezk 19:9 - And they put him in a cage with hooksAnd abrought him to the king of Babylon—They brought him into strongholds—That his voice would no longer be heardUpon the mountains of Israel.
Ezk 19:10 - Your mother was like a avine in your 1vineyard,Transplanted beside the waters;It was fruitful and full of branchesBecause of abundant waters.Ezk 19:11 - And it had strong branchesFor scepters of those who rule;And its height was exalted among the leafy boughs,And it was visible in its height because of the multitude of its branches.Ezk 19:12 - But it was plucked up in wrath;It was cast down to the ground;And the east wind dried up its fruit;Its strong branch was broken off and it withered;The afire consumed it.
Ezk 19:13 - And now it is transplanted in the wilderness,In a dry and thirsty land.Ezk 19:14 - And fire has gone forth from its branch;It has consumed its offshoots and its fruit,So that there is ano strong branch in it,A scepter to rule.This is a lamentation and it has become a lamentation.

Ezekiel

Chapter 20 of 48

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i.  Through Jehovah's response to the elders' inquiring of Jehovah — 20:1-44
Ezk 20:1 - Now in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and they sat before me.
Ezk 20:2 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 20:3 - aSon of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Have you come to inquire of Me? As I live, I will not be inquired of by you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 20:4 - Will you judge them, will you judge, son of man? Make them know the abominations of their fathers,
Ezk 20:5 - And say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On the day when I achose Israel and 1lifted up My hand to the seed of the house of Jacob and bmade Myself known to them in the land of Egypt; when I lifted up My hand to them, saying, I am Jehovah your God;
Ezk 20:6 - On that day I lifted up My hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a 1land that I had spied out for them, aflowing with milk and honey, which is the 1bglory of all the lands.
Ezk 20:7 - And I said to them, Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of your eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the aidols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.
Ezk 20:8 - But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not, each one, cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Thus I thought to pour out My wrath upon them and to spend My anger on them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezk 20:9 - But I did something for My name’s sake that it might not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in the midst of whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself known to them in order to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezk 20:10 - Therefore I caused them to ago forth from the land of Egypt, and I brought them into the wilderness.
Ezk 20:11 - And I gave them My astatutes and made known to them My ordinances, by which, if a man does them, he will blive.
Ezk 20:12 - And also I gave them My aSabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might bknow that I am Jehovah who sanctifies them.
Ezk 20:13 - But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the awilderness; they did not walk in My statutes, and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man does them, he will live; and they greatly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I thought to pour out My wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezk 20:14 - But I did something for My name’s sake that it might not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had caused them to go forth.
Ezk 20:15 - Yet I also alifted up My hand to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all the lands;
Ezk 20:16 - Because they rejected My ordinances and did not walk in My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, for their heart went after idols.
Ezk 20:17 - But My eye pitied them, so that I did not destroy them, and I did anot bring them to their end in the wilderness.
Ezk 20:18 - And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances, and do not defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezk 20:19 - I am Jehovah your God; walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them;
Ezk 20:20 - And sanctify My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you might know that I am Jehovah your God.
Ezk 20:21 - But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes and they were not careful to do My ordinances, by which, if a man does them, he will live; they profaned My Sabbaths. Then I thought to pour out My wrath upon them to spend My anger on them in the wilderness.
Ezk 20:22 - Yet I withdrew My hand and did something for My name’s sake that it might not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezk 20:23 - I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness that I would ascatter them among the nations and would disperse them among the countries,
Ezk 20:24 - Because they did not do My ordinances, but rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were directed to the idols of their fathers.
Ezk 20:25 - And I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they would not live,
Ezk 20:26 - And I declared them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused everything that opens the womb to pass through fire, that I might make them desolate so that they would know that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 20:27 - Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Still yet in this your fathers blasphemed Me by acting unfaithfully against Me:
Ezk 20:28 - When I had brought them into the land which I had lifted up My hand to give them, they saw every high hill and every leafy tree; and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, and there they made their sweet savor, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
Ezk 20:29 - Then I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? Therefore the name of it is called Bamah to this day.
Ezk 20:30 - Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Do you defile yourselves in the way of your fathers? And do you go about as a harlot after their detestable things?
Ezk 20:31 - And when you offer up your gifts, when you make your children pass through fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols until today. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you.
Ezk 20:32 - And that which comes up in your spirit shall by no means occur, that which you say, We will be alike the nations, like the families of the countries, serving wood and stone.
Ezk 20:33 - As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will rule over you.
Ezk 20:34 - And I will bring you out from the peoples and will agather you from the countries among which you have been scattered, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out.
Ezk 20:35 - And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and I will enter into judgment with you there face to face.
Ezk 20:36 - As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 20:37 - And I will cause you to pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
Ezk 20:38 - And I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out from the land of their sojourning, but not one will enter into the land of Israel. Thus you will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 20:39 - As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord Jehovah, aGo, serve every one his idols; but afterward, you shall surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will no longer profane with your gifts and with your idols.
Ezk 20:40 - For on My holy amountain, on the 1mountain of the height of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah, there will the whole house of Israel, all of them, serve Me in the land; there will I accept them and there will I require your contributions and the firstfruits of your offerings with all your holy things.
Ezk 20:41 - As a sweet savor I will accept you, when I abring you out from the peoples and bgather you from the countries among which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.
Ezk 20:42 - And you will know that I am Jehovah, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land concerning which I lifted up My hand to give to your fathers.
Ezk 20:43 - aAnd there you will remember your ways and all your doings by which you defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have done.
Ezk 20:44 - And you will know that I am Jehovah, when I have dealt with you for My name’s sake, not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.
j.  Through a parable of a consuming forest fire — 20:45-49
Ezk 20:45 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 20:46 - Son of man, set your face toward Teman, and utter something against the south and prophesy against the forest field of the 1Negev;
Ezk 20:47 - And say to the forest of the Negev, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now kindling a fire in you, and it will consume in you every tender atree and every dry tree; the flaming flame will not be quenched, and every surface will be scorched, from the south to the north.
Ezk 20:48 - And all flesh will see that I, Jehovah, kindled it; it will not be quenched.
Ezk 20:49 - Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! They say of me, Does he not just use parables?

Ezekiel

Chapter 21 of 48

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k.  By the sword of Jehovah against the holy places and the land of Israel — 21:1-32
Ezk 21:1 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 21:2 - aSon of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and utter something against the holy places and prophesy against the land of Israel;
Ezk 21:3 - And say to the land of Israel, Thus says Jehovah, I am now against you, and I will draw My asword out of its sheath, and I will cut off from you the righteous man and the wicked.
Ezk 21:4 - Because I will cut off from you the righteous man and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth out of its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north.
Ezk 21:5 - And all flesh will know that I, Jehovah, have drawn My sword out of its sheath; it will not return again.
Ezk 21:6 - But you, son of man, groan! With the shaking of loins and with bitterness groan in their sight.
Ezk 21:7 - And when they say to you, Why do you groan, you shall say, Because of the report that comes; and every heart will melt and every hand will be feeble and every spirit will faint and every knee will flow into water. It is about to come and it will happen, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 21:8 - Again the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 21:9 - Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.
Ezk 21:10 - It is sharpened to slaughter utterly, polished to flash like lightning. Or shall we rejoice, saying, The 1scepter of my son despises all other wood?
Ezk 21:11 - And it is given to be polished, that it may be wielded in the hand. The sword—it is sharpened and it is polished, that it may be given into the hand of the slayer.
Ezk 21:12 - Cry out and howl, son of man, for it will come against My people. It will come against all the princes of Israel; they are cast at the sword with My people; therefore 1strike your thigh.
Ezk 21:13 - For a trial has been made. And what if even the scepter that despises is no more? declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 21:14 - You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together; and let the sword be doubled a third time, the sword for the slain; it is the sword for a great slain one that encircles them.
Ezk 21:15 - In order that hearts may fail and that occasions of falling may multiply at all their gates, I have given the 1slaughtering sword. Ah! It has been made to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaying.
Ezk 21:16 - Gather yourself up, go to the right; set yourself, go to the left, to wherever your edge is appointed.
Ezk 21:17 - And I, even I, will clap My hands together and will cause My wrath to rest; I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Ezk 21:18 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 21:19 - And you, son of man, appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; out of one land both will come. And make a signpost; make it at the fork in the road to each city.
Ezk 21:20 - You shall appoint a way for the sword to come, either to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, or to fortified Jerusalem in Judah.
Ezk 21:21 - For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork in the two roads, using divination; he shakes his arrows, he inquires of the 1teraphim, he 2observes the liver.
Ezk 21:22 - Into his right hand came the divination for Jerusalem, to set up the battering ram, to open his mouth in killing, to lift up his voice with a shout, to set the battering rams against the gates, to cast up a mound, to build a asiege wall.
Ezk 21:23 - Yet to those in Jerusalem it will be as a false divination in their sight, to those who have sworn solemn oaths; but He brings the iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
Ezk 21:24 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear, because you have come to remembrance, you will be taken with the hand.
Ezk 21:25 - And you, profane, awicked prince of Israel, whose day has come at the time of the 1iniquity of the end,
Ezk 21:26 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Remove the turban, and take off the crown; what is will not be. aExalt the lowly, and lay low the exalted.
Ezk 21:27 - Ruins, ruins, ruins will I make it; and this also will be no more, until 1He acomes whose right it is; and I will give it to Him.
Ezk 21:28 - And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume, that it may flash like lightning—
Ezk 21:29 - While they see vanity for you, while they divine deception for you—to bring you down upon the necks of the wicked slain, whose day has come at the time of the iniquity of the end.
Ezk 21:30 - Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your aorigin, I will judge you.
Ezk 21:31 - And I will pour out My indignation upon you; with the fire of My overflowing wrath I will blow against you, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.
Ezk 21:32 - You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will not be remembered; for I, Jehovah, have spoken.

Ezekiel

Chapter 22 of 48

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l.  Through Ezekiel's declaration of Jerusalem's abominations — 22:1-16
Ezk 22:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 22:2 - Now you, ason of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Therefore make her know all her abominations.
Ezk 22:3 - And you shall say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, A city that asheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols, against her own good, that she may defile herself!
Ezk 22:4 - You are guilty for 1the blood which you have shed and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near and have come to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the countries.
Ezk 22:5 - Those who are near and those who are far off from you will mock you, who are ill-reputed and in great tumult.
Ezk 22:6 - Indeed the princes of Israel, each according to his power, were within you to shed blood.
Ezk 22:7 - They have lightly esteemed father and mother within you; they have treated the stranger with oppression in the midst of you, and the orphan and the widow they have ill-treated within you.
Ezk 22:8 - You have despised My holy things and have profaned My Sabbaths.
Ezk 22:9 - Slanderous men are within you in order to shed blood, and within you they have eaten upon the mountains; in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
Ezk 22:10 - In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their father; they have humbled women in their uncleanness within you.
Ezk 22:11 - And one has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter, within you.
Ezk 22:12 - Within you they have taken bribes in order to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase and have wrested unjust gain from your neighbors by extortion and have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 22:13 - Therefore I have now struck My hand against your wrested unjust gain which you have made and at the bloodshed which is in the midst of you.
Ezk 22:14 - Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I will deal with you? I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it.
Ezk 22:15 - And I will ascatter you among the nations and disperse you among the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.
Ezk 22:16 - And you will be profaned through yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
m.  Against Jerusalem as a smelting furnace — 22:17-22
Ezk 22:17 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 22:18 - Son of man, the house of Israel has become adross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Ezk 22:19 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because all of you have become dross, therefore I am now gathering you into the midst of Jerusalem.
Ezk 22:20 - As they gather silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the afurnace to blow fire upon it and smelt it, so will I gather you in My anger and in My wrath; and I will lay you there and smelt you.
Ezk 22:21 - Yes, I will gather you and blow upon you with the fire of My overflowing wrath, and you will be smelted in the midst of it.
Ezk 22:22 - As silver is smelted in the midst of the furnace, so will you be smelted in the midst of it; and you will know that I, Jehovah, have poured out My wrath upon you.
n.  Against the various kinds of people among the children of Israel — 22:23-31
Ezk 22:23 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 22:24 - Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.
Ezk 22:25 - There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her, like a roaring lion taking prey: They have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have increased the number of her widows in the midst of her.
Ezk 22:26 - Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made ano distinction between the holy and the profane, nor have they made the difference known between the unclean and the clean; and from My Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes; and I am profaned in the midst of them.
Ezk 22:27 - Her rulers within her are like awolves taking prey, by shedding blood and destroying souls in order to wrest unjust gain.
Ezk 22:28 - And her prophets have plastered over their deeds with untempered mortar for them, seeing avain visions and deceptive divination for them, saying, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah has not spoken.
Ezk 22:29 - The people of the land have practiced extortion and have committed plunder and have oppressed the poor and needy and have mistreated the stranger without justice.
Ezk 22:30 - And I sought aa man among them who would build up the wall and bstand in the breach before Me for the sake of the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found cno one.
Ezk 22:31 - Therefore I have poured out My indignation upon them; in the fire of My overflowing wrath I have consumed them; I have brought their own way upon their heads, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 23 of 48

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o.  Against Jerusalem and Samaria as two adulterous sisters — 23:1-49
Ezk 23:1 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 23:2 - aSon of man, there were two bwomen, the daughters of one woman;
Ezk 23:3 - And they committed fornication in aEgypt; in their youth they committed fornication; there their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosoms were handled.
Ezk 23:4 - And their names were 1Oholah, the older one, and 2Oholibah, her sister; and they abecame Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, 3Samaria is Oholah, and 3Jerusalem is Oholibah.
Ezk 23:5 - And Oholah committed fornication instead of remaining with Me, and she lusted after her lovers, after the aAssyrians, who were close to her,
Ezk 23:6 - Who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding horses.
Ezk 23:7 - And she bestowed her fornication upon them, all of them the choice men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols, she defiled herself.
Ezk 23:8 - And she did not abandon her fornication from her time in Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and they had handled her virgin bosom, and they had poured out their fornication upon her.
Ezk 23:9 - Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the aAssyrians whom she lusted after.
Ezk 23:10 - They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and daughters, and they slew her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments upon her.
Ezk 23:11 - And her sister Oholibah 1saw this, but she was more acorrupt in her lust than she and more corrupt in her fornication than the fornication of her sister.
Ezk 23:12 - She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, who were close to her, clothed splendidly, horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezk 23:13 - Then I saw that she was defiled. Both had taken the same way.
Ezk 23:14 - And she increased her fornication: When she saw men portrayed upon the wall, images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
Ezk 23:15 - Girded with belts upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their birth;
Ezk 23:16 - She lusted after them, her eyes seeing them; and she sent messengers to them in aChaldea.
Ezk 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her at the bed of love and defiled her with their fornication. And when she had been defiled by them, her desire for them departed.
Ezk 23:18 - Thus she uncovered her fornication and she uncovered her nakedness, and My adesire for her departed, as My desire for her sister had departed.
Ezk 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her fornication by recalling the days of her youth, when she committed fornication in the land of Egypt.
Ezk 23:20 - And she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Ezk 23:21 - Thus you sought after the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.
Ezk 23:22 - Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now rousing your lovers against you, from whom your desire departed, and am bringing them against you from all around:
Ezk 23:23 - The aBabylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
Ezk 23:24 - And they will come against you with weapons, chariots and wheels, and with a company of peoples; they will set shield and buckler and helmet against you all around. And I will set judgment before them, and they will judge according to their judgments.
Ezk 23:25 - And I will set My jealousy against you that they may deal with you in wrath; they will remove your nose and your ears, and your residue will fall by the sword; they will take your sons and your daughters, and they will consume your residue with fire.
Ezk 23:26 - aThey will also strip you of your garments and take your beautiful articles.
Ezk 23:27 - Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and to your fornication brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
Ezk 23:28 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now giving you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom your desire has departed.
Ezk 23:29 - And they will deal with you in hatred and will take all that you have gained; and they will abandon you, naked and bare, and the nakedness of your fornication will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your fornication.
Ezk 23:30 - These things will be done to you because you have gone after the nations as a harlot, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezk 23:31 - You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her acup into your hand.
Ezk 23:32 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah,You will drink your sister’s cup,Deep and wide;You will be a laughingstock and a mockery;It contains much.
Ezk 23:33 - You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,The cup of horror and desolation,The cup of your sister Samaria.
Ezk 23:34 - And you will adrink it and drain itAnd gnaw at its shards;And you will tear out your breasts;For I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.Ezk 23:35 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have aforgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, bear now as well your lewdness and your fornication.
Ezk 23:36 - And Jehovah said to me, Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare their abominations to them.
Ezk 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; indeed they have committed adultery with their idols and have also caused their children, whom they bore unto Me, to pass through fire to 1their idols, to be devoured.
Ezk 23:38 - Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My aSabbaths.
Ezk 23:39 - For when they slaughtered their children to their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and they have even done this ain the midst of My house.
Ezk 23:40 - Furthermore, they sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and indeed they came; for them you bathed, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments;
Ezk 23:41 - And you sat upon a splendid bed with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.
Ezk 23:42 - And the sound of a multitude without care was with her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with people of the common sort, who put bracelets upon the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Ezk 23:43 - Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, Will they now commit fornication with her when she is thus?
Ezk 23:44 - But they went in to her as they would to a woman who is a harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
Ezk 23:45 - And righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Ezk 23:46 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, Bring up a company against them, and give them up to terror and plunder.
Ezk 23:47 - And the company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.
Ezk 23:48 - Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be admonished not to conduct themselves in the way of your lewdness.
Ezk 23:49 - And they will bring your lewdness upon you, and you will bear the sins of having your idols, and you will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 24 of 48

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p.  Through a parable of a boiling pot — 24:1-14
Ezk 24:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,
Ezk 24:2 - aSon of man, write down the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid bsiege to Jerusalem this very day.
Ezk 24:3 - And utter a parable to the arebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah,Put on a bpot—put it on;And also pour water into it;
Ezk 24:4 - Gather into it its pieces,Every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder;Fill it with choice bones.
Ezk 24:5 - Take the choice of the flock,And also put a pile of 1wood under it;Bring it to a vigorous boil;Indeed let its bones be boiled in it.Ezk 24:6 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the abloody city, to the pot in which there is rust and whose rust has not gone out of it! Take its pieces out of it piece by piece; no lot has fallen upon it.
Ezk 24:7 - For her blood was within her; she put it on a bare rock; she did not pour it upon the ground to cover it with dust.
Ezk 24:8 - In order to stir up wrath, to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon a bare rock, so that it might not be covered.
Ezk 24:9 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the bloody city! I will also make the pile great.
Ezk 24:10 - Heap on the wood, light the fire, boil the meat well, and mix in spices, and let the bones be burned.
Ezk 24:11 - Then stand it empty upon its coals, so that it may get hot and its bronze may glow, so that its filthiness may be burned away in it and its rust may be consumed.
Ezk 24:12 - She has wearied herself with toil, yet her great rust has not gone out of her. Let her rust be in the fire.
Ezk 24:13 - Because of your lewd filthiness—because I tried to cleanse you, but you did not get clean, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness anymore, until I have caused My wrath toward you to rest.
Ezk 24:14 - I, Jehovah, have spoken. The time is coming, and I will do it; I will not refrain, nor will I spare, nor will I repent. According to your ways and according to your doings 1I will judge you, declares the Lord Jehovah.
q.  Through Ezekiel again as a sign of disgrace in the matter of losing his wife — 24:15-27
Ezk 24:15 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 24:16 - Son of man, I am about to take away the delight of your eyes from you with a blow. Yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears come.
Ezk 24:17 - Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead; bind your turban upon you, and put your sandals upon your feet, and do not cover your lips, and do not eat the bread of men.
Ezk 24:18 - So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.
Ezk 24:19 - And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things you are doing signify to us?
Ezk 24:20 - So I said to them, The word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 24:21 - Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will aprofane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the delight of your eyes, and that which your soul longs after; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
Ezk 24:22 - And you will do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor shall you eat the bread of men.
Ezk 24:23 - And your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your sandals, upon your feet; you shall not mourn nor weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan one to another.
Ezk 24:24 - Thus Ezekiel will be a asign to you. You shall do just as all he has done. And when it comes, you will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 24:25 - As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and what they have set their heart on, their sons and their daughters,
Ezk 24:26 - On that day one who has escaped will come to you to report it in your ears.
Ezk 24:27 - On that day your mouth will be opened to the one who has escaped, and you shall speak and no longer be dumb. So you shall become a sign to them, and they will aknow that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 25 of 48

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B.  God's judgment of the heathen nations — 25:1-32:32
1.  Upon Ammon — 25:1-7
Ezk 25:1 - 1Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 25:2 - aSon of man, set your face against the children of bAmmon and prophesy concerning them.
Ezk 25:3 - And you shall say to the children of 1Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you said, Aha! against My sanctuary when it was adesecrated, and against the land of Israel when it was desolated, and against the house of Judah when it went off into exile;
Ezk 25:4 - Therefore I am about to deliver you up to the children of the east to be dispossessed, and they will set up their encampments among you and put their dwellings among you. It is they who will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
Ezk 25:5 - And I will make Rabbah pasture land for camels and the cities of the children of Ammon folds for flocks, and you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 25:6 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the amalice within you against the land of Israel,
Ezk 25:7 - Therefore now I have stretched out My hand against you, and I will deliver you as booty to the nations and cut you off from the peoples and destroy you from the lands; I will destroy you that you may know that I am Jehovah.
2.  Upon Moab — 25:8-11
Ezk 25:8 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because 1aMoab 2has said, Look, the house of Judah is just like all the other nations!
Ezk 25:9 - Therefore I am about to open up the flank of Moab, taking cities from the cities on its frontier, the pride of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, even to Kiriathaim.
Ezk 25:10 - I will also deliver it along with the children of Ammon to the children of the east to be dispossessed, so that the children of Ammon might not be remembered among the nations.
Ezk 25:11 - So I will execute judgments against Moab that they may know that I am Jehovah.
3.  Upon Edom — 25:12-14
Ezk 25:12 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because 1aEdom has acted full of vengeance against the house of Judah and has incurred serious guilt by taking vengeance on them,
Ezk 25:13 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from them man and beast and make it a desolation. From Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
Ezk 25:14 - And I will inflict My avengeance upon Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they shall act in Edom according to My anger and My wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.
4.  Upon Philistia — 25:15-17
Ezk 25:15 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because the 1aPhilistines have acted in vengeance and have been full of vengeance acting with bmalice within them to destroy with a perpetual enmity,
Ezk 25:16 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to stretch out My hand against the Philistines and cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seashore.
Ezk 25:17 - And I will execute a great vengeance upon them with chastisements of wrath that they may know that I am Jehovah, when I have inflicted My vengeance on them.

Ezekiel

Chapter 26 of 48

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5.  Upon Tyre — 26:1-28:19
Ezk 26:1 - And in the 1eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 26:2 - aSon of man, because 1bTyre has spoken against Jerusalem, saying, Aha! She is broken, the gateway of the peoples! She has been turned over to me; I will be filled; now she has been desolated.
Ezk 26:3 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now against you, O Tyre, and I will stir up many nations against you, just as the sea stirs up its waves.
Ezk 26:4 - And they will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and make her bare rock.
Ezk 26:5 - She will be a place in the midst of the sea where nets are spread, for I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah; and she will become spoil to the nations.
Ezk 26:6 - And her daughters who are in the field will be slain by the sword that they might aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 26:7 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to bring against Tyre from the north 1aNebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, the king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, a company, and many people.
Ezk 26:8 - He will slay your daughters in the field by the sword, and he will lay a siege wall against you and cast up a mound against you and raise up a shield against you.
Ezk 26:9 - And he will set his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
Ezk 26:10 - Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots when he enters through your gates like those who enter a breached city.
Ezk 26:11 - With the hooves of his horses he will trample down all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and the pillars of your strength will topple to the ground.
Ezk 26:12 - And they will plunder your wealth and take your merchandise as spoil, and they will break down your walls and tear down your pleasant houses, and they will put your stones and your timber and your dust into the water.
Ezk 26:13 - And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.
Ezk 26:14 - And I will make you bare rock. You will be a place where nets are spread; you shall no longer be built; for I, Jehovah, have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 26:15 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: How the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter occurs in your midst!
Ezk 26:16 - Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be astonished at you.
Ezk 26:17 - And they will take up a lamentation over you and say to you,How you have perished, O inhabited one,From the sea, O praised city,Which was strong by the sea,She and her inhabitants,Who imposed their terror on all her inhabitants!Ezk 26:18 - Now the coastlands will trembleOn the day of your fall;The coastlands which are by the seaWill indeed be troubled because of your departure.Ezk 26:19 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, When I make you a desolate city, like cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the mighty waters cover you,
Ezk 26:20 - I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the alower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so you will not be inhabited, nor shine out glory in the land of the living.
Ezk 26:21 - I will make you a terror, and you will not exist. Although you will be sought after, you will never again be found, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 27 of 48

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Ezk 27:1 - The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying,
Ezk 27:2 - Now you, ason of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
Ezk 27:3 - And say to Tyre, O you who dwell at the entry to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, Thus says the Lord Jehovah,You, O Tyre, have said,I am aperfect in beauty.
Ezk 27:4 - Your borders are in the heart of the seas;Your builders have perfected your beauty.Ezk 27:5 - They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.Ezk 27:6 - They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan;They have made your boards of cypresses inlaid with ivory from the coasts of 1Kittim.Ezk 27:7 - Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt, to be your ensign;Your awning was of blue and purple material from the coasts of Elishah.Ezk 27:8 - The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers;Your skilled men, who were in you, O Tyre, were your helmsmen.Ezk 27:9 - The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you caulking your seams.All the ships of the sea and their sailors were within you to barter for your merchandise.Ezk 27:10 - The men of Persia and Lydia and Put were in your army as your men of war.They hung shields and helmets on you; they endowed you with your splendor.Ezk 27:11 - The men of Arvad 1and Helek were on your walls all around, and valiant men were in your towers; they hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.
Ezk 27:12 - Tarshish conducted business with you because of the abundance of all your wealth. For your wares they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead.
Ezk 27:13 - Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; for your merchandise they gave ahuman beings and vessels of bronze.
Ezk 27:14 - From Beth-togarmah they gave for your wares horses, steeds for riding, and mules.
Ezk 27:15 - The people of Dedan were your traders; many coastlands conducted business on your behalf; they brought back as payment to you ivory tusks and ebony.
Ezk 27:16 - Syria conducted business with you because of the abundance of your products; they gave for your wares carbuncles, purple and embroidered cloth, fine linen, coral, and rubies.
Ezk 27:17 - Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, resin, honey, oil, and balm.
Ezk 27:18 - Damascus conducted business with you for the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all wealth. They gave the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
Ezk 27:19 - Vedan and Javan traded for your wares from Uzal. Among your merchandise were wrought iron, cassia, and calamus.
Ezk 27:20 - Dedan was your trader in precious clothes for riding.
Ezk 27:21 - Arabia and all the princes of Kedar conducted business on your behalf; in lambs, rams, and goats; for these they conducted business with you.
Ezk 27:22 - The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders; they gave for your wares the best of all spices, all kinds of precious stones, and gold.
Ezk 27:23 - Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.
Ezk 27:24 - These were your traders in the finest fabrics, in rolls of blue and embroidered cloth, and in chests of fine woven articles, tightly bound with cords, among your merchandise.
Ezk 27:25 - The ships of Tarshish transported your merchandise for you;And you were replenished and made very gloriousIn the heart of the seas.
Ezk 27:26 - Those who rowed you have brought you into great waters,But the east wind has shipwrecked you in the heart of the seas.Ezk 27:27 - Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise,Your sailors, your pilots,Those who caulked your seams,The dealers in your merchandise,And all your men of war, who are in you,With all your company who are in your midst,Will sink into the heart of the seasOn the day of your fall.Ezk 27:28 - At the sound of the cry of your pilotsThe pasture lands will shake.Ezk 27:29 - And all who handle the oarWill come down out of their ships;The sailors and all the pilots of the seaWill stand upon the land,Ezk 27:30 - And they will make their voice heard for youAnd cry out bitterly,And they will throw dust upon their heads;They will wallow in ashes.Ezk 27:31 - And they will make themselves bald for youAnd gird themselves with sackcloth,And they will weep for you in bitterness of soulWith bitter mourning.Ezk 27:32 - And in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for youAnd lament over you, saying,aWho is like Tyre,Like her silenced in the midst of the sea?Ezk 27:33 - When your wares went out over the seas,You satisfied many peoples.With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandiseYou aenriched the kings of the earth.Ezk 27:34 - Now you are shipwrecked by the seaIn deep water,Your merchandise and all your companyGo down in your midst.Ezk 27:35 - All the inhabitants of the coastsAre astonished at you,And their kings shudder excessively;Their countenance is troubled.Ezk 27:36 - Those who conducted business with you among the peoples hiss at you;You have become a source of terror,And you will no longer exist.

Ezekiel

Chapter 28 of 48

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Ezk 28:1 - The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying,
Ezk 28:2 - aSon of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, bI am 1a god—I sit in the seat of 2God in the midst of the seas; yet you are a cman and not 1a god, although you set your heart as if it were the heart of God.
Ezk 28:3 - Indeed you are wiser than aDaniel; there is no secret hidden from you;
Ezk 28:4 - By your wisdom and by your understanding you have made your wealth and accumulated gold and silver in your treasuries.
Ezk 28:5 - By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has become lifted up because of your wealth.
Ezk 28:6 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have set your heart as if it were the heart of God,
Ezk 28:7 - Therefore I am about to bring strangers upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.
Ezk 28:8 - To the apit they will bring you down, and in the heart of the seas you will die the death of those who are slain.
Ezk 28:9 - Will you indeed say in the presence of the one who slays you, I am God? But you are a man and not a god in the hand of the one who wounds you.
Ezk 28:10 - You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 28:11 - Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 28:12 - Son of man, take up a lamentation for the 1king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, O you who sealed up 2perfection, full of wisdom and aperfect in beauty,
Ezk 28:13 - You were in 1Eden, the garden of God. Every aprecious stone was your 2covering, sardius, topaz, diamond, 3chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, 4carbuncle, and emerald, with gold. The workmanship of your 5tambourines and your 5pipes was prepared with you on the day that you were created.
Ezk 28:14 - You were the 1anointed acherub who covered the 2Ark; indeed I set you, so that you were upon the holy 3mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the 4stones of fire.
Ezk 28:15 - You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
Ezk 28:16 - By the abundance of your 1trading they filled your midst with violence, and you sinned. So I cast you out as profane from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezk 28:17 - Your heart was 1lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness. I 2cast you to the ground; I presented you before kings that they may look at you.
Ezk 28:18 - By the multitude of your iniquities in the unrighteousness of your trading you have profaned your 1sanctuaries. Therefore I sent forth fire from your midst; it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those who look at you.
Ezk 28:19 - All who know you among the peoples are astonished at you. You have become a source of terror, and you will be no more forever.
6.  Upon Sidon — 28:20-26
Ezk 28:20 - And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 28:21 - Son of man, set your face toward 1Sidon, and prophesy against it,
Ezk 28:22 - And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, O aSidon, and I will be glorified in your midst. And they will bknow that I am Jehovah when I have executed judgments in her, and I am sanctified in her.
Ezk 28:23 - And I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets, and the wounded will fall in her midst with the sword against her from all around, and they will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 28:24 - And there will no longer be a pricking briar or a painful athorn for the house of Israel, inflicted by any of those around them who despised them. And they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 28:25 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, When I have agathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and have been sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, they will bdwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.
Ezk 28:26 - And they will dwell securely in it, and they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I have executed judgments on all those surrounding them who despise them, and they will know that I am Jehovah their God.

Ezekiel

Chapter 29 of 48

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7.  Upon Egypt — 29:1-32:32
Ezk 29:1 - In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 29:2 - aSon of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of 1bEgypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Ezk 29:3 - Speak and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah,Indeed I am against you,Pharaoh king of Egypt,The great monster that liesIn the midst of his Nile streams,That said, My Nile belongs to me;I even made it for myself.
Ezk 29:4 - But I will put hooks in your jaws,And I will cause the fish of your Nile streams to cling to your scales;And I will bring you up out of the midst of your Nile streams,With all the fish of your Nile streams clinging to your scales.Ezk 29:5 - And I will cast you out into the wilderness,You and all the fish of your Nile streams.You will fall on the open field;You will not be brought together or gathered.To the beasts of the earthAnd to the birds of the skyI have given you as food,
Ezk 29:6 - That all the inhabitants of Egypt may aknow that I am Jehovah,Because they have been a reed bstaff to the house of Israel.Ezk 29:7 - When they grasped you by your hand,You broke and tore all their shoulders;And when they leaned upon you,You shattered and made all their loins unsteady.Ezk 29:8 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to bring a sword upon you, and I will cut off from you man and beast.
Ezk 29:9 - And the land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste, and they will know that I am Jehovah. Because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it;
Ezk 29:10 - Therefore, indeed, I am against you and your Nile streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, even to the border with Ethiopia.
Ezk 29:11 - No human foot will pass through it, not even an animal foot will pass through it; it will not be inhabited forty years.
Ezk 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolate countries, and her cities will be the most desolate among ruined cities for forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries.
Ezk 29:13 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from among the peoples where they have been scattered,
Ezk 29:14 - And I will turn the captivity of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, into the land of their origin. And there they will be a lowly kingdom.
Ezk 29:15 - It will be the lowliest of the kingdoms. It will no longer lift itself up above the nations, and I will diminish them so that they will no longer rule the nations.
Ezk 29:16 - And it will no longer be the aconfidence of the house of Israel, but rather a reminder of iniquity when they turned toward them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 29:17 - And in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 29:18 - Son of man, aNebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon forced his army into hard labor against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder rubbed raw. Yet neither he nor his army had wages from Tyre for the labor that he had expended against it.
Ezk 29:19 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, and he will carry off her multitude and take her spoil and seize her plunder, and it will be the wages for his army.
Ezk 29:20 - I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he labored, because they worked for Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 29:21 - In that day I will cause a 1ahorn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will give you an open mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 30 of 48

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Ezk 30:1 - The word of Jehovah came to me again, saying,
Ezk 30:2 - aSon of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah,Howl! Alas for the day!Ezk 30:3 - For the day has drawn near, even the aday of Jehovah has drawn near;It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.Ezk 30:4 - And a sword will come upon Egypt,And anguish will be in Ethiopia,When the slain will fall in Egypt;And they will take away her multitude,And her foundations will be broken down.
Ezk 30:5 - Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, 1Libya, and the children of the land of the covenant will fall by the sword with them.
Ezk 30:6 - Thus says Jehovah,Those who support Egypt will fall,And the pride of her strength will come down;They will fall by the sword within her,From Migdol to Syene,Declares the Lord Jehovah.Ezk 30:7 - And they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and her cities will be the most desolate among ruined cities.
Ezk 30:8 - And they will aknow that I am Jehovah, when I have set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are destroyed.
Ezk 30:9 - In that day messengers will go forth from before Me in ships to make the confident Ethiopians afraid, and there will be anguish among them just as on the day of Egypt. For indeed it comes.
Ezk 30:10 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of aNebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon.
Ezk 30:11 - He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land, and they will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Ezk 30:12 - And I will make the Nile streams dry and sell the land into the hands of evil men, and I will make the land and all that is in it desolate by the hand of strangers. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Ezk 30:13 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the images from Memphis; and a prince from the land of Egypt will never again arise; and I will put fear into the land of Egypt.
Ezk 30:14 - And I will make Pathros desolate and set fire to Zoan and execute judgments on Thebes.
Ezk 30:15 - And I will pour out My wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude in Thebes.
Ezk 30:16 - And I will set fire to Egypt; Sin will writhe in anguish, and Thebes will be breached, and Memphis will have adversaries daily.
Ezk 30:17 - The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and these cities will go into captivity.
Ezk 30:18 - At Tahpanhes also the day will withdraw itself, when I will break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her strength will cease in her; she will be covered with a cloud, and her daughters will go into captivity.
Ezk 30:19 - Thus I will execute judgments upon Egypt, and they will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 30:20 - And in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 30:21 - Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt; and indeed it has not been bound to apply healing medicines, nor firmly bandaged to bind it to be strong enough to grasp a sword.
Ezk 30:22 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break both his arms, the strong arm and the one that was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
Ezk 30:23 - And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries.
Ezk 30:24 - And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him with the groanings of one who is being slain.
Ezk 30:25 - And I will strengthen the arms of the aking of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh will fall; and they will know that I am Jehovah, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out over the land of Egypt.
Ezk 30:26 - And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the countries. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.

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Chapter 31 of 48

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Ezk 31:1 - And in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 31:2 - aSon of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his multitude:Whom are you like in your greatness?Ezk 31:3 - Indeed Assyria was a cedar in LebanonWith beautiful branches and forest shadeAnd great aheight,And its top shoots were among the thick boughs.Ezk 31:4 - Waters nourished it,The deep springs made it grow;Its rivers flowed aroundThe place it was planted;And it flowed out its channelsTo all the trees of the field.Ezk 31:5 - Therefore its height was exaltedAbove all the trees of the field,And its boughs were multiplied,And its branches lengthened,Because of abundant waters, as it spread.
Ezk 31:6 - All the abirds of the skyMade their nests in its boughs,And all the beasts of the fieldBore their young under its branches,And in its shadeAll great nations dwelt.Ezk 31:7 - Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,In the length of its branches;For its roots were beside abundant waters.
Ezk 31:8 - Cedars in the agarden of God could not hide it;Cypresses could not compare to its boughs,And plane trees could not equal its branches;No tree in the garden of God could compare to it in its beauty.Ezk 31:9 - I made it beautifulBy the multitude of its branches,So that all the trees of Eden,Which were in the garden of God, envied it.Ezk 31:10 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you are exalted in height—it set its top shoots among the thick boughs, and its heart is alifted up in its height—
Ezk 31:11 - Therefore I will deliver it into the hands of the mighty one of the nations; he will surely deal with it. I have driven it out according to its wickedness.
Ezk 31:12 - And strangers, the most ruthless of the nations, have acut it down and left it on the mountains, and its branches have fallen into all the valleys, and its boughs lie broken by all the ravines of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have abandoned its shade and left it.
Ezk 31:13 - Upon its fallen trunkAll the birds of the sky will dwell,And upon its branchesAll the beasts of the field will be.Ezk 31:14 - This is so that none of the well-watered trees will exalt themselves in their height by setting their top shoots among the thick boughs, and none of the well-watered trees will stand next to them in their height; for all of them have been delivered to death, to the alowest parts of the earth among the children of men who descend into the pit.
Ezk 31:15 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On the day it descended to Sheol I caused a mourning; I covered the deep springs for it, and I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were shut up. I also made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted on account of it.
Ezk 31:16 - I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I acast it down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all who drink water, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.
Ezk 31:17 - They also descended with it into Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; indeed to those who were its arm, who dwelt under its shade among the nations.
Ezk 31:18 - Which among the trees of Eden then are you like in glory and in greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord Jehovah.

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Chapter 32 of 48

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Ezk 32:1 - And in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 32:2 - aSon of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him,You likened yourself to a lion of the nations,Yet you are like a monster in the seas;And you gushed forth with your riversAnd muddied the waters with your feetAnd fouled their rivers.Ezk 32:3 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah,I will spread My net upon youWith a company of many peoples,And they will bring you up in My dragnet.Ezk 32:4 - And I will abandon you upon the land;I will cast you out into the open field,And I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon youAnd satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.Ezk 32:5 - And I will lay your flesh upon the mountainsAnd fill the valleys with your 1corpse.Ezk 32:6 - I will also drench the land with your outpoured bloodAs far as the mountains,And the ravines will be full of you.
Ezk 32:7 - And when I extinguish you,I will cover the heavens and adarken their stars;I will cover the sun with a cloud,And the moon will not give its light.Ezk 32:8 - All the bright lights of heavenI will darken over youAnd send darkness upon your land,Declares the Lord Jehovah.Ezk 32:9 - I will also bring anguish to the hearts of many peoples, when I bring news of your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
Ezk 32:10 - Yes, I will astonish many peoples because of you, and their kings will shudder excessively over you, when I brandish My sword before them; they will also tremble continually, everyone for his own life, on the day of your fall.
Ezk 32:11 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, The king of Babylon’s sword will come upon you.
Ezk 32:12 - By the swords of the mighty,All of them the ruthless of the nations,I will cause your multitude to fall;And they will devastate the pride of Egypt,And all its multitude will be destroyed.
Ezk 32:13 - I will also destroy all its beastsFrom beside abundant waters;No longer will human feet muddy them,Nor will the hooves of beasts muddy them.Ezk 32:14 - Then I will make their waters clearAnd their rivers flow like oil, declares the Lord Jehovah.Ezk 32:15 - When I make the land of Egypt desolate,A land destitute of what filled it,When I strike all its inhabitants,They will aknow that I am Jehovah.Ezk 32:16 - This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with it; over Egypt and over all her multitude they will lament with it, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 32:17 - In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 32:18 - Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of mighty nations, to the lowest parts of the earth, with those who descend to the pit.
Ezk 32:19 - Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
Ezk 32:20 - They will fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; she is delivered to the sword. Drag her away with all her multitudes.
Ezk 32:21 - The strong among the mighty will speak to him and his allies from the midst of Sheol; they have gone down; they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Ezk 32:22 - Assyria and all her company are there with their graves all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,
Ezk 32:23 - Whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is all around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who had struck terror in the land of the living.
Ezk 32:24 - aElam and all her multitude are there, all around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have descended uncircumcised into the lowest parts of the earth, who had struck their terror in the land of the living and bore their disgrace with those who descend to the pit.
Ezk 32:25 - They have made her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; their graves are all around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Although their terror was struck in the land of the living, they now bear their disgrace with those who descend to the pit. They are placed among the slain.
Ezk 32:26 - aMeshech, Tubal, and all their multitude are there; their graves are all around them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Although they had struck their terror in the land of the living,
Ezk 32:27 - They will not lie with the mighty uncircumcised who fell, who descended to Sheol with their weapons of war and laid their swords under their heads and their iniquities upon their bones, even though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
Ezk 32:28 - But you will be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and lie with those slain by the sword.
Ezk 32:29 - aEdom is there, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are placed with those slain by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with those who descend to the pit.
Ezk 32:30 - The princes of the north, all of them, and all the aSidonians are there, who descended with the slain; they are put to shame in spite of the terror they struck by their might. They also lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.
Ezk 32:31 - Pharaoh will see them and be comforted over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 32:32 - For I have put his terror in the land of the living, and he will be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord Jehovah.

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Chapter 33 of 48

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IV.  God recovering His people by life — 33:1-39:29

A.  Setting up a watchman — 33:1-34:10
Ezk 33:1 - 1Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 33:2 - aSon of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, Whenever I bring the bsword upon a land and the people of the land take a man from their midst and set him up as their cwatchman,
Ezk 33:3 - And when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blows the atrumpet and warns the people;
Ezk 33:4 - Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and ignores the warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his ablood will be on his own head.
Ezk 33:5 - He heard the sound of the trumpet and ignored the warning; his own ablood will be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.
Ezk 33:6 - But if the watchman sees the sword come and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned and the sword comes and takes someone away from them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.
Ezk 33:7 - It is you, O son of man, whom I have appointed as a 1watchman to the house of Israel; therefore when you hear the word from My mouth, give them warning from Me.
Ezk 33:8 - When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you will surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Ezk 33:9 - Yet if you warn the wicked man of his way to turn from it and he does not turn from his way, he will die in his iniquity, and you have 1adelivered your soul.
Ezk 33:10 - And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, This is what you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and because of them we are wasting away. How then can we live?
Ezk 33:11 - Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, aI have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn away from his way and live. Turn away, turn away from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?
Ezk 33:12 - And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him on the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked will not stumble him on the day he turns away from his wickedness. The righteous cannot be kept alive just because of his 1righteousness on the day he sins.
Ezk 33:13 - When I say concerning the righteous man, He will surely live, but if he has confidence in his righteousness and practices iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered. As for his iniquity that he practiced, in it he will die.
Ezk 33:14 - Again, when I say to the wicked man, You will surely die, but if he turns away from his sin and practices justice and righteousness—
Ezk 33:15 - If the wicked man restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he took in robbery, walks in the statutes of life, practicing no iniquity—he will surely live; he will not die.
Ezk 33:16 - aNone of his sins that he has committed will be remembered against him; he has practiced justice and righteousness; he will surely live.
Ezk 33:17 - aYet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair; but as for them, their way is not fair.
Ezk 33:18 - When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, he will even die in it.
Ezk 33:19 - And when a wicked man turns from his wickedness and practices justice and righteousness, he will live by them.
Ezk 33:20 - Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair. O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his ways.
Ezk 33:21 - And in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city has been astruck down.
Ezk 33:22 - Now the ahand of Jehovah had come upon me in the evening, before the coming of the one who had escaped; and He had opened my mouth before he came to me in the morning. Therefore my bmouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb.
Ezk 33:23 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 33:24 - Son of man, the inhabitants of those ruined places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was aone person, and he was given the land as an inheritance; but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for an inheritance.
Ezk 33:25 - Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, You eat meat with the ablood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Will you indeed possess the land?
Ezk 33:26 - You depend on your sword; you have committed abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you indeed possess the land?
Ezk 33:27 - Thus will you say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, As I live, surely those who are in the ruined places will fall by the sword, and he who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of pestilence.
Ezk 33:28 - And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her strength will cease, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate without anyone passing through.
Ezk 33:29 - Then will they know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste, because of all their abominations which they have committed.
Ezk 33:30 - And as for you, son of man, the children of your people talk about you by the walls and in the entrances of the houses and speak to one another, each to his brother, saying, Come now, and hear what is the word that comes forth from Jehovah.
Ezk 33:31 - And they come to you just as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they ahear your words but bdo not do them; for with their cmouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Ezk 33:32 - And indeed you are to them like a very lovely song of one with a pleasant voice, who can play an instrument well; for they hear your words but do not do them.
Ezk 33:33 - And when this comes about—indeed it comes—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Ezekiel

Chapter 34 of 48

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Ezk 34:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 34:2 - aSon of man, prophesy against the bshepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Woe to the shepherds of Israel who cfeed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
Ezk 34:3 - You eat the fat, and you clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the sheep.
Ezk 34:4 - The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick one you have not healed, and the broken one you have not bound up, and the one that was driven away you have not brought back, and the lost one you have not asought; but with strength and rigor you have bruled over them.
Ezk 34:5 - And they were scattered awithout a shepherd, and they became food to all the beasts of the field and were scattered.
Ezk 34:6 - My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill. Indeed My sheep were scattered over all the surface of the earth; not even one searched for or sought after them.
Ezk 34:7 - Therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah.
Ezk 34:8 - As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely inasmuch as My sheep became prey, and My sheep became food to all the beasts of the field because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My sheep;
Ezk 34:9 - Therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah:
Ezk 34:10 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against the shepherds, and I will require My sheep at their hand and stop them from feeding the sheep, and the shepherds will no longer feed themselves; but I will deliver My sheep from their mouth so that they may not be food for them.
B.  Coming to be a Shepherd — 34:11-31
Ezk 34:11 - For thus says the Lord Jehovah, 1I Myself, even I, will asearch for My sheep and seek them out.
Ezk 34:12 - As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day when he is among his sheep which are scattered, so I will seek out My sheep; and I will deliver them from all the places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Ezk 34:13 - And I will 1bring them out from the peoples and agather them from the countries and bring them into their own land, and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the 2bstreams and in all the inhabited places of the land.
Ezk 34:14 - I will feed them with good apasture, and their dwelling place will be upon the mountains of the heights of Israel; there they will 1blie down in a good dwelling place, and on rich pasture they will feed upon the mountains of Israel.
Ezk 34:15 - I Myself will ashepherd My flock, and I will cause them to lie down, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 34:16 - I will aseek the lost one and bring back the one that was driven away and bind up the broken one and strengthen the sick one; but the fat one and the strong one I will destroy—I will feed them with judgment.
Ezk 34:17 - And as for you, O My flock, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will 1judge between one sheep and another, between the arams and the male goats.
Ezk 34:18 - Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture and trample down the rest of your pasture with your feet and drink the clear water and foul the rest with your feet?
Ezk 34:19 - Meanwhile My flock must feed on what is trampled by your feet and drink what is fouled by your feet.
Ezk 34:20 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah to them, It is I who am about to judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.
Ezk 34:21 - Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted all the weak with your horns until you scattered them abroad,
Ezk 34:22 - I will rescue My flock, and they will no longer be prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.
Ezk 34:23 - And I will set up over them one aShepherd, My Servant 1David, and He will feed them; He will feed them, and He will be their Shepherd.
Ezk 34:24 - And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and My Servant David will be a 1aPrince among them. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Ezk 34:25 - And I will make with them a 1acovenant of peace and banish evil beasts from the land, so that they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
Ezk 34:26 - And I will make them and the places around My hill a 1blessing, and I will cause the showers to come down in their season; there will be ashowers of 1blessing.
Ezk 34:27 - And the trees of the field will yield their fruit, and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure in their land; then they will aknow that I am Jehovah, when I break the bars of their byoke and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Ezk 34:28 - And they will no longer be prey to the nations, nor will the beasts of the earth devour them; but they will adwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.
Ezk 34:29 - And I will raise up for them a planting place of renown, and they will no longer be consumed with famine in the land and no longer bear the disgrace of the nations.
Ezk 34:30 - Thus they will know that I, Jehovah their aGod, am 1with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 34:31 - And you are My aflock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 35 of 48

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C.  Further judgment of Edom — 35:1-15
Ezk 35:1 - Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 35:2 - aSon of man, set your face against 1Mount bSeir, and prophesy against it,
Ezk 35:3 - And say to it, Thus says the Lord Jehovah,Indeed I am against you, O Mount Seir,And I will stretch out My hand against youAnd make you a desolation and a waste.Ezk 35:4 - I will lay your cities waste,And you will be desolate;And you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 35:5 - Because you have had a perpetual aenmity and handed the children of Israel over to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, in the time of the punishment of the end;
Ezk 35:6 - Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.
Ezk 35:7 - Thus I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
Ezk 35:8 - And I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain will fall by the sword in your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.
Ezk 35:9 - I will make you a perpetual adesolation, and your cities will not be inhabited, and you will know that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 35:10 - Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries will belong to me, and we will possess 1them—even though Jehovah was there—
Ezk 35:11 - Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy, which you displayed in your hatred of them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
Ezk 35:12 - And you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your reviling which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.
Ezk 35:13 - And you have magnified yourselves against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard.
Ezk 35:14 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
Ezk 35:15 - As you arejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, O Mount Seir and all Edom, the whole 1land. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 36 of 48

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D.  Recovery of the good land — 36:1-21
Ezk 36:1 - And you, ason of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.
Ezk 36:2 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! Even the ancient high places have become our possession!
Ezk 36:3 - Therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because, even because, they have desolated and crushed you from every side so that you might become the possession of the remnant of the nations, and you have been taken up in the talk of different tongues and in the whispering of people;
Ezk 36:4 - Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, to the desolate ruins and to the forsaken cities, which have become plunder and a mocking to the remnant of the nations which are all around;
Ezk 36:5 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the remnant of the nations and against Edom, all of whom have appointed My land to themselves for a apossession with the joy of all their heart, with despising in their soul, for their pasture and plunder.
Ezk 36:6 - Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am speaking in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have borne the disgrace of the nations.
Ezk 36:7 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I swear, saying, Surely the nations that surround you will bear their own disgrace.
Ezk 36:8 - But you, O 1mountains of Israel, you will shoot forth your branches and ayield your fruit for My people Israel, for their coming is near.
Ezk 36:9 - For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be tilled and sown;
Ezk 36:10 - And I will multiply people upon you, the entire house of Israel, all of it! The cities will also be inhabited, and the waste places will be arebuilt.
Ezk 36:11 - I will also multiply upon you man and beast, and they will increase and be fruitful, and I will make you inhabited as you were formerly, and I will make it better for you than when you began. Then you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 36:12 - Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you, My people Israel; and they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer bereave them of children again.
Ezk 36:13 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because they are saying of you, You are a land that adevours men and bereaves your nation of children;
Ezk 36:14 - Therefore you will no longer devour men or any longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 36:15 - And I will no longer let you hear the disgrace of the nations nor any longer bear the reproach of the peoples, and you will no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 36:16 - Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 36:17 - Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they adefiled it by their way and by their doings; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
Ezk 36:18 - Therefore I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood which they had poured out upon the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.
Ezk 36:19 - And I ascattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. According to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
Ezk 36:20 - And when they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, inasmuch as it was said of them, These are the people of Jehovah, and they have gone forth out of His land.
Ezk 36:21 - But I had regard for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.
E.  Inward recovery — 36:22-33
Ezk 36:22 - Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am not doing this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for 1aMy holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
Ezk 36:23 - And I will asanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations will know that I am Jehovah, declares the Lord Jehovah, when I am sanctified in you in their sight.
Ezk 36:24 - And I will take you from the nations and agather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Ezk 36:25 - And I will sprinkle 1clean water upon you, and you will be aclean; from all your filthiness and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
Ezk 36:26 - aI will also give you a 1new bheart, and a 1new spirit I will put within you; and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezk 36:27 - And I will put 1My aSpirit within you and cause you to 2walk in My statutes, and My ordinances you shall keep and do.
Ezk 36:28 - And you shall dwell in the aland which I gave to your fathers; and you will be My bpeople, and I will be your God.
Ezk 36:29 - And I will save you from all your uncleanness, and I will summon the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.
Ezk 36:30 - And I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the field, that you may no longer receive the reproach of famine among the nations.
Ezk 36:31 - aThen you will remember your evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Ezk 36:32 - It is not for your sake that I am doing this, declares the Lord Jehovah; let it be known to you. Be ashamed and humiliated on account of your ways, O house of Israel.
Ezk 36:33 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt.
F.  Making the land like the garden of Eden — 36:34-36
Ezk 36:34 - And the land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being desolate in the sight of all who passed by.
Ezk 36:35 - And they will say, This land that was desolate has become like the 1agarden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
Ezk 36:36 - Then the nations that are left all around you will know that I, Jehovah, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will do it.
G.  Increasing the house of Israel with men like a flock — 36:37-38
Ezk 36:37 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Moreover for this I will be 1ainquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them; I will bincrease them with men like a flock.
Ezk 36:38 - Like the holy flock for sacrifices, like the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they will know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 37 of 48

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H.  The visions of the dry bones and the two sticks, showing the regenerating and renewing of God's people — 37:1-28
1.  The dead, dry, and scattered bones being formed into an army — vv. 1-14
Ezk 37:1 - The ahand of Jehovah came upon me, and He brought me out in the bSpirit of Jehovah and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of 1bones.
Ezk 37:2 - And He caused me to pass all around among them, and there were very many on the surface of the valley, and they were also very dry.
Ezk 37:3 - And He said to me, aSon of man, can these bones blive? And I answered, O Lord Jehovah, You know.
Ezk 37:4 - Then He said to me, 1Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.
Ezk 37:5 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah to these bones: I will cause 1abreath to enter into you, and you shall live.
Ezk 37:6 - And I will put sinews on you and bring flesh back on you and cover you with skin and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you will aknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 37:7 - So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly, a rattling; and the bones 1came together, bone to its bone.
Ezk 37:8 - And I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh came back, and skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.
Ezk 37:9 - Then He said to me, Prophesy to the wind; prophesy, son of man, and say to the awind, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
Ezk 37:10 - So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the abreath came into them; and they 1lived and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Ezk 37:11 - Then He said to me, Son of man, these abones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.
Ezk 37:12 - Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Now I will open your agraves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bbring you into the land of Israel.
Ezk 37:13 - And you will know that I am Jehovah, when I open your graves and bring you up out of your graves, O My people.
Ezk 37:14 - And I will put My aSpirit in you, and you shall live; and I will place you in your own land. Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken and that I have performed it, declares Jehovah.
2.  The two pieces of wood being joined together for the building of the house of God — vv. 15-28
Ezk 37:15 - The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying,
Ezk 37:16 - And you, son of man, take one piece of 1awood, and write upon it, For Judah and for the children of Israel associated with him; then take another piece of 1wood, and write upon it, For Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel associated with him;
Ezk 37:17 - And bring them together, one side to the other, into one piece of wood, that they may become united in your hand.
Ezk 37:18 - And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, Will you not tell us what you mean by these?
Ezk 37:19 - Say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to take the piece of wood of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him; and I will put them upon it, that is, the piece of wood of Judah, and make them one piece of wood, and they will be one in My hand.
Ezk 37:20 - And the pieces of wood on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
Ezk 37:21 - And you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and I will agather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
Ezk 37:22 - And I will make them one anation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king will be king to all of them; and they will no longer be two nations, nor will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
Ezk 37:23 - They will not defile themselves any longer with their idols, or their detestable things, or any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and I will acleanse them. Therefore they will be My people, and I will be their God.
Ezk 37:24 - And My Servant 1aDavid will be King over them, and they all will have one bShepherd. They will also walk in My ordinances and observe My statutes and do them.
Ezk 37:25 - And they will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers dwelt; and they will dwell in it, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever. And David My Servant will be their Prince forever.
Ezk 37:26 - I will also make a acovenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them there and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forever,
Ezk 37:27 - And My atabernacle will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My bpeople.
Ezk 37:28 - Then the nations will know that I am Jehovah, who sanctifies Israel, when My sanctuary will be in their midst forever.

Ezekiel

Chapter 38 of 48

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I.  Further judgment of Israel's enemies—Gog and Magog — 38:1-39:29
Ezk 38:1 - Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Ezk 38:2 - aSon of man, set your face toward 1bGog of the land of 1Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Ezk 38:3 - And say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
Ezk 38:4 - And I will turn you around and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you and all your army forth, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with shield and buckler, all of them wielding swords;
Ezk 38:5 - Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
Ezk 38:6 - Gomer and all its hordes, Beth-togarmah from the remotest parts of the north and all its hordes, many peoples with you.
Ezk 38:7 - Get ready; indeed get yourself ready, you and all your company who have gathered to you, and become their guard.
Ezk 38:8 - After many days you will be visited; in the last years you will come into the land which was brought back from the sword, and whose people were gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel, which have been a perpetual waste. Now they have been brought out from the peoples, and all of them dwell securely.
Ezk 38:9 - And you will ago up, coming like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes and many peoples with you.
Ezk 38:10 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, On that day things will come up in your heart, and you will devise an evil device.
Ezk 38:11 - And you will say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will come upon those at rest, dwelling securely, all of them dwelling without walls, without bars or doors;
Ezk 38:12 - To seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the once waste places, now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the middle of the earth.
Ezk 38:13 - Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish, with all their young lions, will say to you, Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your company to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?
Ezk 38:14 - Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Surely on that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, you will recognize it;
Ezk 38:15 - And you will acome from your place from the remotest parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army;
Ezk 38:16 - And you will acome up against My people Israel, like a cloud to cover the land. In the last days I will bring you against My land so that the nations may know Me, when I am sanctified through you, O Gog, before their eyes.
Ezk 38:17 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Are you the one of whom I spoke in earlier times through My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?
Ezk 38:18 - And on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah, My wrath will come up in My nostrils.
Ezk 38:19 - For in My jealousy and in My afiery wrath I have spoken, Surely on that day there will be a great bearthquake in the land of Israel;
Ezk 38:20 - The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep upon the earth, and every human being on the surface of the earth will quake at My presence, and mountains will be thrown down, and slopes will slide, and every wall will fall to the ground.
Ezk 38:21 - And I will call to all My mountains for a sword against him, declares the Lord Jehovah; every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
Ezk 38:22 - And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain torrential rain and great hailstones, afire and brimstone, upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him.
Ezk 38:23 - And I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself and make Myself known in the sight of many nations, and they will know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 39 of 48

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Ezk 39:1 - And you, ason of man, prophesy against 1bGog and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
Ezk 39:2 - And I will turn you around and drive you on and bring you up from the remotest parts of the north, and I will abring you upon the mountains of Israel;
Ezk 39:3 - And I will strike your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall out of your right hand.
Ezk 39:4 - You will fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, all your hordes, and the peoples with you. I will give you up as food to every kind of scavenging bird and to the beasts of the field.
Ezk 39:5 - You will fall upon the open field, for I have spoken it, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 39:6 - And I will send afire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the isles, and they will bknow that I am Jehovah.
Ezk 39:7 - And I will make known My aholy name in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not allow My holy name to be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am Jehovah, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezk 39:8 - Indeed it is coming and will take place, declares the Lord Jehovah. This is the day of which I have spoken.
Ezk 39:9 - And the inhabitants of the cities of Israel will go out and set fire to the weapons and burn them: bucklers and shields, bows and arrows, and javelins and spears; and they will fuel fires with them for seven years.
Ezk 39:10 - They will not carry in wood from the field nor fell any from the forests, for they will fuel fires with the weapons. And they will spoil their spoilers and plunder their plunderers, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 39:11 - And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the valley of those who pass through, east of the sea; and it will stop those who pass through. And there they will bury Gog and all his multitude, and they will call it the valley of Hamon-gog.
Ezk 39:12 - And the house of Israel will spend seven months burying them in order to cleanse the land.
Ezk 39:13 - Indeed all the people of the land will bury them; and it will bring fame to them on the day that I am glorified, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 39:14 - And they will set apart men for continual employment, who will pass through the land; and with those who pass through will come those who bury those who remain upon the surface of the land, to cleanse it. They will search up to the end of seven months.
Ezk 39:15 - And those who pass through the land will pass through; and when anyone sees a human bone, he will erect a marker by it, until those responsible for burials have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
Ezk 39:16 - And Hamonah will also be the name of a city. So they will cleanse the land.
Ezk 39:17 - And you, son of man, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Speak to every kind of abird and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves and bcome; gather yourselves from all around to My sacrifice which I sacrifice for you, a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, so that you may eat flesh and drink blood.
Ezk 39:18 - You shall eat the aflesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as of rams, lambs and male goats, bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Ezk 39:19 - And you shall eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
Ezk 39:20 - And you will be satisfied at My table with horses and chariots, with mighty men and with all the men of war, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 39:21 - And I will establish My aglory among the nations, and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid upon them.
Ezk 39:22 - So the house of Israel will know that I am Jehovah their God from that day onward.
Ezk 39:23 - And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their ainiquity because they trespassed against Me, and I hid My face from them. So I bgave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.
Ezk 39:24 - According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.
Ezk 39:25 - Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Now I will aturn the captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
Ezk 39:26 - And they shall bear their disgrace and all their trespasses with which they have trespassed against Me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and no one will make them afraid.
Ezk 39:27 - When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, I will be sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.
Ezk 39:28 - And they will know that I am Jehovah their God because I brought them into captivity among the nations and have gathered them to their own land; and I will never again leave any of them there.
Ezk 39:29 - And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will have apoured out My Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 40 of 48

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V.  The vision of the holy building of God — 40:1-48:35

A.  The time and the place — 40:1-2
Ezk 40:1 - 1In the 2atwenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the 3beginning of the year, on the 3tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was bstruck down, on that same day the chand of Jehovah was upon me, and He brought me there.
Ezk 40:2 - In the visions of God He abrought me into the 1land of Israel and set me down bupon a very 1high mountain, and on it to the south there was a structure like a city.
B.  The vision of a man — 40:3
Ezk 40:3 - And He brought me there, and there was a 1man, whose appearance was like the appearance of 1abronze, with a line of flax and a measuring 2breed in His hand, standing in the gate.
C.  The vision of the holy temple — 40:4-44:31
1.  The outer court — 40:4-27
Ezk 40:4 - And the man said to me, aSon of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I show you, because for this purpose you have been brought here, that it may be shown to you. Tell all that you see to the house of Israel.
Ezk 40:5 - Now there was a 1awall all around the outside of the house, and in the man’s hand there was a bmeasuring reed six cubits long, each cubit being a 2cubit and a handbreadth. So He measured the thickness of the structure, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Ezk 40:6 - Then He came to the 1gate which faces toward the east and went up its steps, and He measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep; and each threshold was one reed deep.
Ezk 40:7 - And every 1guardroom was one reed long and one reed wide, and the space between the guardrooms was five cubits, and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the house was one reed.
Ezk 40:8 - He measured also the 1porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
Ezk 40:9 - Then He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its posts, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
Ezk 40:10 - And there were three guardrooms on one side and three on the other side of the gate, which was facing east; and the three of them had the same measurement, and the posts had the same measurement on both sides.
Ezk 40:11 - And He measured the width of the entrance of the gate, 1ten cubits; and the total length of the gate was thirteen cubits.
Ezk 40:12 - And there was a border before the guardrooms, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the guardrooms were six cubits on this side and six cubits on that side.
Ezk 40:13 - And He measured the total gate width from the roof edge of one guardroom to the roof edge of the other, twenty-five cubits. The entrances of the guardrooms were opposite each other.
Ezk 40:14 - He also made a measurement of the posts, sixty cubits in all; and the gate surrounded a court which reached to the posts.
Ezk 40:15 - And the distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.
Ezk 40:16 - And the guardrooms and their posts had 1alatticed windows within and all around the gate. The porches also had windows within and all around, and 2bpalm trees were on each post.
Ezk 40:17 - Then He brought me into the aouter court, and there were 1chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
Ezk 40:18 - And the pavement flanked the gates, its width equal to the length of the gates; that is, the lower pavement.
Ezk 40:19 - Then He measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the front of the outside of the inner court gate, a hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
Ezk 40:20 - Then He measured the gate of the outer court which faced toward the north, its length and its width.
Ezk 40:21 - And it had three guardrooms on this side and three on that side. And its posts and its porch were of the same measurement as the first gate; its length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
Ezk 40:22 - And its windows and its porch and its apalm trees were of the same measurement as the gate which faced toward the east, and seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.
Ezk 40:23 - And there was a gate to the ainner court opposite the outer gate, both on the north and on the east. And He measured the distance from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.
Ezk 40:24 - And He led me toward the south, and there was a gate toward the south, and He measured its posts and its porch according to those same measurements.
Ezk 40:25 - And 1the gate and its porch had windows all around just like those other windows; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
Ezk 40:26 - And there were seven steps going up to it, and its porch was in front of them; and it had palm trees upon its posts, one on each side.
Ezk 40:27 - And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south, and He measured the distance from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.
2.  The inner court — 40:28-47
Ezk 40:28 - Then He brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and He measured the south gate according to those 1same measurements,
Ezk 40:29 - And its guardrooms and its posts and its porches according to those same measurements; and it had windows in and around it and its porches; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
Ezk 40:30 - And there were porches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.
Ezk 40:31 - And its porches were toward the outer court, and apalm trees were upon its posts, and its steps had 1eight steps.
Ezk 40:32 - And He brought me into the inner court toward the east, and He measured the gate according to those same measurements,
Ezk 40:33 - And its guardrooms and its posts and its porches according to those same measurements; and it had windows in and around it and its porches; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
Ezk 40:34 - And its porches were toward the outer court, and apalm trees were upon its posts on each side, and its steps had eight steps.
Ezk 40:35 - And He brought me to the north gate, and He measured it according to those same measurements,
Ezk 40:36 - Its guardrooms, its posts, and its porches; and it had windows in and around it; the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
Ezk 40:37 - And its 1porches were toward the outer court, and palm trees were upon its posts, on each side, and its steps had eight steps.
Ezk 40:38 - And a 1chamber with its entrance was by the posts at the gates; there they awashed the burnt offering.
Ezk 40:39 - And in the porch of the gate were two 1tables on this side and two tables on that side on which to slay the burnt offering, the asin offering, and the trespass offering.
Ezk 40:40 - And on one side outside, as one goes up to the entrance of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.
Ezk 40:41 - Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side beside the gate; eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices.
Ezk 40:42 - And there were four tables for the burnt offering, made of ahewn stone, a cubit and a half long and a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice;
Ezk 40:43 - And double hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened on the inside all around. And upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
Ezk 40:44 - And outside the inner gate in the inner court were 1two chambers, one at the side of the north gate facing toward the south; one at the side of the 2south gate facing toward the north.
Ezk 40:45 - And He said to me, This chamber that faces toward the south is for the priests, the akeepers of the charge of the house;
Ezk 40:46 - And the chamber that faces toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the aaltar. These are the sons of bZadok, who come near to Jehovah to minister to Him from among the sons of Levi.
Ezk 40:47 - And He measured the court, a square, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide; and the 1aaltar was 2in front of the house.
3.  The temple — 40:48-41:26
Ezk 40:48 - Then He brought me to the aporch of the house and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and 1the width of the gate was fourteen cubits, plus the side indents in the gate, three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.
Ezk 40:49 - The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width 1twelve cubits, and 2ten steps led up to it; and there were 3pillars by the posts, one on this side and another on that side.

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Chapter 41 of 48

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Ezk 41:1 - And He brought me to the temple and measured the posts; six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other side was the width of the 1post.
Ezk 41:2 - And the width of the entrance was 1ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side. And He measured the length of the 2outer temple, forty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits.
Ezk 41:3 - Then He went into the inner temple and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width on either side of the entrance, seven cubits.
Ezk 41:4 - And He measured the alength of the inner temple, twenty cubits, and the width, twenty cubits, before the outer temple; and He said to me, This is the Holy of Holies.
Ezk 41:5 - Then He measured the wall of the house, 1six cubits thick; and the width of every side chamber, four cubits, all around the house on every side.
Ezk 41:6 - And the 1side chambers were in 2three astories, one over another, with thirty units in each story; and they extended to the wall, which the house had for the side chambers all around to be supports, so that there would not be supports inserted into the wall of the house.
Ezk 41:7 - And the side chambers that went around the house became 1wider as they went up by stories. Because the surrounding of the house aincreased upward around the house, therefore the house had width upward; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest through the middle story.
Ezk 41:8 - I also saw that the house had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six along cubits.
Ezk 41:9 - The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits; and 1space that was left alongside the side chambers belonged to the house.
Ezk 41:10 - And between the 1chambers and the house was a width of twenty cubits all around the house on every side.
Ezk 41:11 - And the entrances of the side chambers were toward the space that was left, one entrance toward the north and another entrance toward the south; and the width of the place that was left was five cubits all around.
Ezk 41:12 - And the 1building that was in front of the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
Ezk 41:13 - So He measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place at the back and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;
Ezk 41:14 - And the width of the front of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.
Ezk 41:15 - And He measured the length of the building before the separate place, which was behind it, and its galleries on one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits. And the outer temple, the inner temple, the porches of the court,
Ezk 41:16 - The thresholds, the 1alatticed windows, and the galleries of the surrounding side chambers with their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with 2wood all around, even from the ground to the windows (now the windows were latticed),
Ezk 41:17 - To the top of the entrance, both in the inner house and outside. And on all the walls all around inside and outside, by measurement,
Ezk 41:18 - Were both acarved 1cherubim and 1bpalm trees. And a palm tree was between two cherubim, and every cherub had two faces.
Ezk 41:19 - So there was the face of a 1aman toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a 1lion toward the palm tree on the other side. So it was carved in and around the whole house.
Ezk 41:20 - From the ground to the top of the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, even on the wall of the temple.
Ezk 41:21 - The temple doorposts were squared. And at the front of the sanctuary was something in appearance like the appearance of
Ezk 41:22 - A wooden 1aaltar, 2three cubits high, and its length 2two cubits; and its corners, its length, and its walls were made of wood. And He said to me, This is the 1btable that is before Jehovah.
Ezk 41:23 - Now the temple and the sanctuary had 1adouble doors.
Ezk 41:24 - And the double doors had two swinging leaves, two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.
Ezk 41:25 - And carved on these, on the doors of the temple, were 1cherubim and 1palm trees, just like those carved on the walls. And there was a threshold of wood upon the front of the porch outside.
Ezk 41:26 - And there were alatticed 1windows and 1palm trees on either side, on the sides of the porch, the side chambers of the house, and the thresholds.

Ezekiel

Chapter 42 of 48

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4.  The holy chambers for the priests to eat the most holy things — 42:1-14
Ezk 42:1 - Then He brought me out into the aouter court, the way toward the north, and He brought me into the 1chamber that was adjacent to the separate place and which was adjacent to the building toward the north.
Ezk 42:2 - The length of the side of the northern entrance was a hundred cubits, and the width was fifty cubits.
Ezk 42:3 - Adjacent to the twenty-cubit space of the inner court and adjacent to the pavement of the outer court was agallery facing gallery on the 1third story.
Ezk 42:4 - And before the chambers on the inside was a walkway of ten cubits’ width, a way of one hundred cubits; and their entrances were toward the north.
Ezk 42:5 - Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more space away from these than from the lower and the middle stories in the building.
Ezk 42:6 - For they were arranged in three stories, and they did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper story was set back from the ground more than the lower and middle stories.
Ezk 42:7 - There was also an outside wall beside the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits.
Ezk 42:8 - For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits.
Ezk 42:9 - And at the foot of these chambers was an entrance on the east side to enter them from the outer court;
Ezk 42:10 - By the breadth of the wall of the court to the 1south, beside the separate place and beside the building, there were chambers,
Ezk 42:11 - With a way before them. Their appearance was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north; just as their length, so also was their width; and all their exits were according to both their arrangements and their entrances.
Ezk 42:12 - So the entrances of the chambers that were toward the south were entered through an entrance toward the east at the head of the corresponding way, directly beside the wall.
Ezk 42:13 - Then He said to me, The north chambers and the south chambers which are beside the separate place are holy chambers, where the priests who are near to Jehovah shall aeat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most bholy things, the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering, for the place is holy.
Ezk 42:14 - When the priests enter, they shall not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their agarments in which they have ministered, because they are holy. And they shall put on other garments and approach the area designated for the people.
5.  The land surrounding the temple — 42:15-20
Ezk 42:15 - Now when He had finished measuring the inner house, He brought me out through the gate which faces toward the east and ameasured it all around.
Ezk 42:16 - He measured on the east 1side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed all around.
Ezk 42:17 - He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed all around.
Ezk 42:18 - He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezk 42:19 - He turned to the west side and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezk 42:20 - He measured it on four sides. It had a wall all around, the length afive hundred reeds and the width five hundred reeds, to make a separation between what was holy and what was common.

Ezekiel

Chapter 43 of 48

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6.  The return of God's glory to the house — 43:1-12
Ezk 43:1 - Then He brought me to the gate, that is, the gate that faces toward the aeast.
Ezk 43:2 - And the 1aglory of the God of Israel was there, coming from the way of the east, and His bvoice was like the sound of many waters, and the earth was cilluminated with His glory.
Ezk 43:3 - And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, that is, like the avision that I had seen when 1He came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I had seen by the river Chebar. And I fell on my face.
Ezk 43:4 - And the aglory of Jehovah came into the house through the 1gate which faced toward the east.
Ezk 43:5 - And the Spirit atook me up and brought me into the inner court, and just then the glory of Jehovah bfilled the 1house.
Ezk 43:6 - And I heard someone speaking to me out of the house, and a aman stood beside me.
Ezk 43:7 - And He said to me, aSon of man, this is the bplace of My 1throne and the place of the 1csoles of My feet, where I will 1dwell in the midst of the children of Israel dforever. And the house of Israel will no longer defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their 2fornication and by their kings’ dead bodies on their high places.
Ezk 43:8 - When they placed their threshold by My threshold and their doorpost beside My doorpost, there was only the wall between Me and them, and they have defiled My holy name by their abominations which they have committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
Ezk 43:9 - Now let them put away their fornication and the dead bodies of their kings far from Me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.
Ezk 43:10 - You, O son of man, describe the 1house to the house of Israel, that they may feel humiliated because of their iniquities, and let them measure the pattern.
Ezk 43:11 - And if they feel humiliated because of all that they have done, make known to them the adesign of the house, the arrangement, its exits, its entrances, its whole design, and all its statutes—indeed its whole design and all its laws; and write them down in their sight, that they may keep its whole design and all its statutes, and do them.
Ezk 43:12 - This is the law of the house: Its entire area on the top of and all around the 1mountain shall be most 1holy. Indeed this is the law of the house.
7.  The altar — 43:13-27
Ezk 43:13 - Now these are the measurements of the aaltar by cubits (the bcubit is a 1cubit and a handbreadth). The 2bottom shall be a cubit in height, a cubit in depth, and its surrounding 3border on its 3edge, a span. Now this is the base of the altar.
Ezk 43:14 - And from the top of the bottom upon the ground to the top of the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and one cubit in depth; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and a cubit in depth.
Ezk 43:15 - And the altar hearth shall be four cubits in height; and from the altar hearth there shall also be 1four horns projecting upward.
Ezk 43:16 - And the altar hearth shall be 1twelve cubits long by twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.
Ezk 43:17 - And the greater ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen cubits wide on its four sides, and its surrounding 1border shall be half a cubit, and its bottom shall be a cubit all around, and its asteps shall face 2east.
Ezk 43:18 - And He said to me, Son of man, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, These are the statutes of the altar to be observed on the day when they make it, for offering up 1burnt offerings on it and for sprinkling 1ablood upon it.
Ezk 43:19 - You shall give the Levitical priests who are of the seed of Zadok, who draw near to Me to minister to Me, declares the Lord Jehovah, a abull of the herd for a sin offering.
Ezk 43:20 - And you shall take some of its ablood and put it on its four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and upon the surrounding border. Thus you shall purify it and make expiation for it.
Ezk 43:21 - You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be aburnt in the appointed place of the house, outside the sanctuary.
Ezk 43:22 - And on the second day you shall present a male goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall purify the altar, just as they purified it with the bull.
Ezk 43:23 - When you have finished purifying it, you shall present a bull of the herd without blemish and a ram of the flock without blemish.
Ezk 43:24 - And you shall present them before Jehovah, and the priests shall throw asalt upon them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to Jehovah.
Ezk 43:25 - aEach day for seven days you shall offer a goat for a sin offering; they shall also offer a bull of the herd and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
Ezk 43:26 - Seven days they shall make expiation for the altar and cleanse it, and so 1consecrate it.
Ezk 43:27 - And when they have fulfilled the days, on the aeighth day and onward, the priests shall offer your burnt offerings and your peace offerings upon the altar; and I will accept you, declares the Lord Jehovah.

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Chapter 44 of 48

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8.  The service in the house of Jehovah — 44:1-31
Ezk 44:1 - Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces aeast, but it was shut.
Ezk 44:2 - And Jehovah said to me, This gate will remain shut; it will not be opened, nor will any man enter through it, for Jehovah the God of Israel has aentered through it; therefore it will remain shut.
Ezk 44:3 - As for the 1Prince, He will sit in it as a prince to eat food before Jehovah; He will enter through the porch of the gate and go out the same way.
Ezk 44:4 - Then He brought me through the north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and just then the glory of Jehovah afilled the 1house of Jehovah, and I fell upon my face.
Ezk 44:5 - And Jehovah said to me, aSon of man, pay attention, and look with your eyes, and listen with your ears to all that I say to you concerning all the statutes of the house of Jehovah and all its laws; and pay attention to the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
Ezk 44:6 - And you shall say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Jehovah, aEnough, O house of Israel, of all your abominations,
Ezk 44:7 - Inasmuch as you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to profane it, My house, when you presented My bread, the fat and the blood. And in addition to all your abominations, 1you broke My covenant.
Ezk 44:8 - And you have not kept the charge of My holy things, but you have set your own keepers of My charge in My sanctuary.
Ezk 44:9 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, No foreigner, 1auncircumcised in heart and 1uncircumcised in flesh, of any of the foreigners who are among the children of Israel shall enter into My sanctuary.
Ezk 44:10 - But the aLevites 1who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear their iniquity.
Ezk 44:11 - Yet they shall minister in My sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house and ministering in the house. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
Ezk 44:12 - Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord Jehovah, that they shall bear their iniquity.
Ezk 44:13 - And they shall not come near to Me to serve Me as a priest, nor come near to any of My holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their disgrace and their abominations which they have committed.
Ezk 44:14 - Yet I will appoint them keepers of the charge of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done in it.
Ezk 44:15 - But the Levitical priests, the sons of aZadok, who kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from Me, they shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to present to Me the 1fat and the 1blood, declares the Lord Jehovah,
Ezk 44:16 - It is they who will enter My sanctuary, and it is they who will come near to My atable to minister to Me, and they will keep My charge.
Ezk 44:17 - And when they enter the gates of the inner court they shall be clothed with 1alinen garments, and no 1wool will come upon them while they minister in the gates of the inner court and inside it.
Ezk 44:18 - They shall have linen aturbans on their heads and have linen trousers over their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.
Ezk 44:19 - And when they go out into the outer court, into the outer court to the people, they shall 1take off their agarments with which they minister and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments so that they do not bsanctify the people with their garments.
Ezk 44:20 - They shall neither 1ashave their heads, nor let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.
Ezk 44:21 - And none of the priests shall drink 1awine when they enter the inner court.
Ezk 44:22 - aAnd they shall not 1take as their wives a widow or a divorced woman, but rather they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Ezk 44:23 - And they shall teach My people the adifference between the holy and the profane and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Ezk 44:24 - And in a dispute they shall stand as a ajudge; according to My ordinances they shall give judgment concerning it. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed 1feasts, and they shall sanctify My 2Sabbaths.
Ezk 44:25 - aAnd they shall not go to any 1dead person to defile themselves. Only for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or a sister who has had no husband may they defile themselves.
Ezk 44:26 - And aafter he has been cleansed, they shall number 1seven days for him.
Ezk 44:27 - And on the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to minister in the sanctuary, he shall present his 1sin offering, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 44:28 - And they shall have an inheritance: 1I am their ainheritance. And you shall not give them a possession in Israel—1I am their possession.
Ezk 44:29 - They shall 1aeat the meal offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Ezk 44:30 - And the afirst of all the firstfruits of everything, and every heave offering of everything, of all your heave offerings, shall be the priests’. You shall also give the priests the first of your dough to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
Ezk 44:31 - The priests shall not eat of anything that adies of itself or is torn by beasts, either a bird or an animal.

Ezekiel

Chapter 45 of 48

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D.  The offerings to Jehovah — 45:1-46:24
1.  The holy heave offering of land — 45:1-8
Ezk 45:1 - Moreover when you divide the land for inheritance by alot, you shall offer a bheave offering of land to Jehovah, a holy portion of the land; its length shall be twenty-five thousand reeds long, and its width 1twenty thousand reeds; it shall be holy within all its surrounding border.
Ezk 45:2 - From this there will be reserved for the holy place a afive hundred reed by five hundred reed square all around, and fifty cubits for its surrounding suburbs.
Ezk 45:3 - You shall also measure from this measurement a length of twenty-five thousand reeds and a width of ten thousand reeds, and ain it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.
Ezk 45:4 - It is a aholy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Jehovah, and it shall be a place for their houses as well as a holy area for the sanctuary.
Ezk 45:5 - And an area atwenty-five thousand reeds in length and ten thousand reeds in width shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for their own possession, for 1cities to live in.
Ezk 45:6 - And alongside the holy heave offering you shall grant a possession for the acity, five thousand reeds in width and twenty-five thousand reeds in length; it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
Ezk 45:7 - And you shall set aside for the aprince on both sides of the holy heave offering and of the city’s possession, adjacent to the holy heave offering and adjacent to the city’s possession, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east. Thus the total length corresponds to one of the tribal portions from the western border to the eastern border.
Ezk 45:8 - In the land it shall be his apossession in Israel. And My princes shall no longer oppress My people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
2.  The offerings of the princes and people of Israel — 45:9-46:24
Ezk 45:9 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease from your evicting of My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 45:10 - You shall have ajust balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.
Ezk 45:11 - The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer. Its measure shall be according to the homer.
Ezk 45:12 - And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall make up your mina.
Ezk 45:13 - This is the heave offering which you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of 1wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;
Ezk 45:14 - And a set portion of oil (that is, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from the cor, which is ten baths, that is, a homer (for ten baths are a homer);
Ezk 45:15 - And one lamb out of two hundred from the flock from the well-watered pastures of Israel—for a meal offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings to make aexpiation for them, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 45:16 - All the people of the land shall be bound to give this heave offering to the prince in Israel.
Ezk 45:17 - But it will be the prince’s portion to provide the 1burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make 2expiation for the house of Israel.
Ezk 45:18 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, In the 1first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull of the herd without blemish, and you shall purify the asanctuary.
Ezk 45:19 - And the priest shall take some of the ablood of the sin offering and put it upon the doorposts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the doorposts of the gate of the inner court.
Ezk 45:20 - And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who asins unintentionally and for the simple. So you shall make expiation for the house.
Ezk 45:21 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the 1aPassover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Ezk 45:22 - And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a asin offering.
Ezk 45:23 - And during the aseven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Jehovah, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
Ezk 45:24 - And he shall prepare a ameal offering, an ephah for a bull, an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah.
Ezk 45:25 - In the seventh month, on the afifteenth day of the month, at the 1feast, he shall make the same provision seven days for the sin offering, for the burnt offering, for the meal offering, and for the oil.

Ezekiel

Chapter 46 of 48

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Ezk 46:1 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut the asix working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Ezk 46:2 - And the prince shall aenter through the porch of the gate from the outside and stand by the doorpost of the gate, and the priests will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
Ezk 46:3 - And the people of the land shall worship at the entrance of that gate before Jehovah on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
Ezk 46:4 - And the aburnt offering that the prince shall present to Jehovah on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;
Ezk 46:5 - And the ameal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil for an ephah.
Ezk 46:6 - And on the day of the 1new moon he shall offer a bull of the herd without blemish, six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish.
Ezk 46:7 - And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs as he can afford, and a hin of oil for an ephah.
Ezk 46:8 - And when the prince enters, he shall come in through the porch of the gate, and he shall go out the same way.
Ezk 46:9 - But when the people of the land acome before Jehovah at the appointed feasts, whoever enters through the north gate to worship shall go out through the south gate, and whoever enters through the south gate shall go out through the north gate; he shall not return through the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight ahead.
Ezk 46:10 - And the prince shall come in among them when they enter, and when they go out, they shall go out together.
Ezk 46:11 - And at the feasts and at the appointed feasts the ameal offering shall be an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil for an ephah.
Ezk 46:12 - And when the prince prepares a freewill offering, a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to Jehovah, someone will open for him the gate that faces aeast; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and someone shall shut the gate after he has gone out.
Ezk 46:13 - And you shall provide a alamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Jehovah daily, 1every morning you shall provide it.
Ezk 46:14 - And you shall provide with it a meal offering every morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. It is a meal offering to Jehovah continually, a perpetual statute.
Ezk 46:15 - Thus they shall provide the lamb and the meal offering and the oil every morning for a continual burnt offering.
Ezk 46:16 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.
Ezk 46:17 - But if he gives some of his inheritance as a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his until the ayear of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall remain only for his sons.
Ezk 46:18 - Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people’s ainheritance, casting them out of their own possession. He shall give an inheritance to his sons from his own possession so that none of My people are scattered away from their possession.
Ezk 46:19 - Then He brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which face north. And there was a 1place there, at the rear toward the west.
Ezk 46:20 - And He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall aboil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bbake the meal offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court, thereby sanctifying the people.
Ezk 46:21 - Then He brought me out into the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court; and there in each corner of the court was a 1court.
Ezk 46:22 - In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. These four enclosed courts in the corners were of one measurement.
Ezk 46:23 - And there was a wall all around them, around all four, and boiling places were made at the base of the walls all around.
Ezk 46:24 - Then He said to me, These are the boiling houses, where those who minister in the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.

Ezekiel

Chapter 47 of 48

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E.  The Holy Land and the holy city — 47:1-48:35
1.  The vision of the water flowing out from the house — 47:1-12
Ezk 47:1 - Then He brought me back to the entrance of the house, and there was 1awater flowing out from under the threshold of the house to the 2east (for the house faced east); and the water flowed down below the 3south side of the house, on the south of the 4altar.
Ezk 47:2 - Then He brought me out by the way of the north gate and led me around on the way outside to the outer gate, on the way to the gate that faces east; and there the water was running out on the south side.
Ezk 47:3 - When the 1man went out to the east with the line in His hand, He 2ameasured a 3thousand cubits; and He led me through the water, water that was to the ankles.
Ezk 47:4 - Then He measured a thousand cubits and led me through the water, water that was to the knees. Then He measured a thousand cubits and led me through the water, water that was to the loins.
Ezk 47:5 - Then He measured a thousand cubits, and it was a ariver that I could not pass through; for the water had risen, enough water to 1swim in, a river that could not be crossed.
Ezk 47:6 - And He said to me, aSon of man, have you seen this? Then He led me and brought me back along the bank of the river.
Ezk 47:7 - And when I returned, there were very many atrees on the bank of the river, on one side and on the other.
Ezk 47:8 - Then said He to me, This water flows out toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah and goes to the sea; when it flows into the 1sea, the water of the sea is 2ahealed.
Ezk 47:9 - And every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes shall 1live, and there will be very many 2fish when this water comes there. And the water of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
Ezk 47:10 - And fishermen will stand beside 1the sea from 2En-gedi even to 3En-eglaim; it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish shall be according to their kinds, like the fish of the 4Great Sea, very many.
Ezk 47:11 - But its 1swamps and its 1marshes will not be healed; they shall be left for salt.
Ezk 47:12 - And on the banks on both sides of the river will grow all kinds of atrees for food. Their bleaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail; but they will bring forth new fruit every month, because the water for them flows out of the sanctuary. And their fruit shall be for food, and their cleaves for healing.
2.  The borders of the land — 47:13-23
Ezk 47:13 - Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This is the boundary by which you shall divide up the 1land as an inheritance for the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two aportions.
Ezk 47:14 - And you shall divide it for an inheritance, each one equally with the other, for I swore to agive it to your fathers, and this land will fall to you as an inheritance.
Ezk 47:15 - This shall be the aborder of the land: on the north side, from the 1Great Sea by the way of Hethlon, to the 2entrance of Hamath, and on to Zedad;
Ezk 47:16 - Berothah, Sibraim (which is between the territory of Damascus and the territory of Hamath), to Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
Ezk 47:17 - Thus the border shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan on the border of the territory of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the territory of Hamath. This is the north side.
Ezk 47:18 - And on the east side, from between Hauran and Damascus, and from between Gilead and the land of Israel, that is, the Jordan, you shall measure from the north border to the 1eastern sea. This is the east side.
Ezk 47:19 - And the south side toward the south, the aborder shall go from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, and to the Great Sea. This is the south side toward the south.
Ezk 47:20 - And the west side shall be the Great Sea, from the south border to opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
Ezk 47:21 - So you shall apportion this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.
Ezk 47:22 - And you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the asojourners who sojourn among you, who bring forth sons among you. And they shall be to you just like the native among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Ezk 47:23 - And in whatever tribe the sojourner sojourns, you shall give him his inheritance there, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Ezekiel

Chapter 48 of 48

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3.  The allotment of the land — 48:1-35
Ezk 48:1 - Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, along the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, and Hazar-enan on the border of the territory of Damascus with Hamath to the north (with their sides extending from east to west), aDan, one portion.
Ezk 48:2 - And alongside the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, aAsher, one portion.
Ezk 48:3 - And alongside the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, aNaphtali, one portion.
Ezk 48:4 - And alongside the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, aManasseh, one portion.
Ezk 48:5 - And alongside the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, aEphraim, one portion.
Ezk 48:6 - And alongside the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, aReuben, one portion.
Ezk 48:7 - And alongside the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, aJudah, one portion.
Ezk 48:8 - And alongside the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the 1aheave offering of land which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length just like one of the portions of the tribes from the east side to the west side; and the 2sanctuary shall be in its midst.
Ezk 48:9 - The heave offering that you shall offer to Jehovah shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length and ten thousand reeds in width.
Ezk 48:10 - And for these, that is, for the apriests, shall be the holy heave offering—on the north twenty-five thousand reeds in length, on the west ten thousand reeds in width, on the east ten thousand reeds in width, and on the south twenty-five thousand reeds in length; and the sanctuary of Jehovah shall be in its midst.
Ezk 48:11 - This is for the priests who are sanctified from among the sons of aZadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
Ezk 48:12 - And it shall be theirs as a heave offering from the heave offering of the land, most holy, alongside the territory of the Levites.
Ezk 48:13 - And alongside the territory of the priests, the aLevites shall have a portion twenty-five thousand reeds in length and ten thousand reeds in width. The whole length shall be twenty-five thousand reeds, and its width ten thousand reeds.
Ezk 48:14 - And they shall not sell or exchange or transfer any of it; it is the firstfruits of the land, for it is holy to Jehovah.
Ezk 48:15 - And the five thousand reeds remaining of the width, alongside the twenty-five thousand reeds, shall be for common use: for the acity, for dwellings, and for suburbs; and the city shall be in its midst.
Ezk 48:16 - And these shall be its measurements: the north side four thousand five hundred reeds, the south side four thousand five hundred reeds, on the east side four thousand five hundred reeds, and the west side four thousand five hundred reeds.
Ezk 48:17 - And the city shall have suburbs: two hundred fifty reeds to the north, two hundred fifty reeds to the south, two hundred fifty reeds to the east, and two hundred fifty reeds to the west.
Ezk 48:18 - And the remaining length, alongside the holy heave offering, shall be ten thousand reeds to the east and ten thousand reeds to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy heave offering. And its produce shall be food for those who labor in the city.
Ezk 48:19 - And those who labor in the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall work it.
Ezk 48:20 - The entire heave offering of land shall be twenty-five thousand reeds by twenty-five thousand reeds. You shall offer the holy heave offering, a square, including the possession of the city.
Ezk 48:21 - And what is remaining on both sides of the holy heave offering and of the city’s possession shall be for the aprince; adjacent to the twenty-five thousand reeds of the heave offering unto the eastern border, and to the west adjacent to the twenty-five thousand reeds of the heave offering to the western border, alongside the portions of the tribes, it shall be for the prince. And the holy heave offering and the sanctuary of the house shall be in its midst.
Ezk 48:22 - And it shall be distinct from the possession of the Levites and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of what belongs to the prince. The remaining area lying between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin shall be for the prince.
Ezk 48:23 - And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, aBenjamin, one portion.
Ezk 48:24 - And alongside the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, aSimeon, one portion.
Ezk 48:25 - And alongside the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, aIssachar, one portion.
Ezk 48:26 - And alongside the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, aZebulun, one portion.
Ezk 48:27 - And alongside the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, aGad, one portion.
Ezk 48:28 - And alongside the border of Gad, at the south side to the south, the aborder shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribah-kadesh to the brook of Egypt to the Great Sea.
Ezk 48:29 - This is the land which you shall divide by alot to the tribes of Israel for an inheritance, and these are their portions, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Ezk 48:30 - And these are the exits of the city: On the north side, which measures four thousand five hundred reeds,
Ezk 48:31 - (Now the agates of the 1city shall be according to the names of the tribes of Israel) 2three gates to the north: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one;
Ezk 48:32 - And on the east side, which is four thousand five hundred reeds, another three gates: the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one;
Ezk 48:33 - And on the south side, which measures four thousand five hundred reeds, another three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one;
Ezk 48:34 - On the west side, which is four thousand five hundred reeds, their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
Ezk 48:35 - It shall be eighteen thousand reeds all around, and the aname of the city from that day shall be, 1bJehovah Is There.
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