14
“They will appoint men on a full-time basis to pass through the land and bury the invaders who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will make their search at the end of the seven months.
15
When they pass through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker next to it until the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
16
There will even be a city named Hamonah there. So they will cleanse the land.
17
“Son of man, this is what the Lord
God
says: Tell every kind of bird and all the wild animals: Assemble and come! Gather from all around to My sacrificial feast that I am slaughtering for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel; you will eat flesh and drink blood.
18
You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth's princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.
19
You will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, at My sacrificial feast that I have prepared for you.
20
At My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and all the warriors.” This is the declaration of the Lord
God
.
Israel's Restoration to God
21
“I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment I have executed and the hand I have laid on them.
22
From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God.
23
And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile on account of their iniquity, because they dealt unfaithfully with Me. Therefore, I hid My face from them and handed them over to their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
24
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.
25
“So this is what the Lord
God
says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
26
They will feel remorse for their disgrace and all the unfaithfulness they committed against Me, when they live securely in their land with no one to frighten them.
27
When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the countries of their enemies, I will demonstrate My holiness through them in the sight of many nations.
28
They will know that I am Yahweh their God when I regather them to their own land after having exiled them among the nations. I will leave none of them behind.
29
I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel.” This is the declaration of the Lord
God
.
Ezekiel
The New Temple
40
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been captured, on that very day the
Lord
's hand was on me, and He brought me there.
2
In visions of God He took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. On its southern slope was a structure resembling a city.
3
He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand. He was standing by the gate.
4
He spoke to me: “Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.”
The Wall and Outer Gates
5
Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple. The measuring rod in the man's hand was six units of 21 inches; each unit was the standard length plus three inches. He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was about 10 feet, and its height was the same.
6
Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 feet deep — the first threshold was 10 feet deep.
7
Each recess was about 10 feet long and 10 feet deep, and there was a space of 8
3
/
4
feet between the recesses. The inner threshold of the gate on the temple side next to the gate's portico was about 10 feet.
8
Next he measured the portico of the gate;
9
it was 14 feet, and its pilasters were 3
1
/
2
feet. The portico of the gate was on the temple side.
10
There were three recesses on each side of the east gate, each with the same measurements, and the pilasters on either side also had the same measurements.
11
Then he measured the width of the gate's entrance; it was 17
1
/
2
feet, while the width of the gateway was 22
3
/
4
feet.
12
There was a barrier of 21 inches in front of the recesses on both sides, and the recesses on each side were 10
1
/
2
feet square.
13
Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one recess to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was 43
3
/
4
feet. The openings of the recesses faced each other.
14
Next, he measured the pilasters — 105 feet. The gate extended around to the pilaster of the court.
15
The distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the gate's portico on the inside was 87
1
/
2
feet.
16
The recesses and their pilasters had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticoes also had windows all around on the inside. Each pilaster was decorated with palm trees.
17
Then he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a paved surface laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
18
which flanked the gates and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.
19
Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the exterior front of the inner court; it was 175 feet. This was the east; next the north is described.
20
He measured the gate of the outer court facing north, both its length and width.
21
Its three recesses on each side, its pilasters, and its portico had the same measurements as the first gate: 87
1
/
2
feet long and 43
3
/
4
feet wide.
22
Its windows, portico, and palm trees had the same measurements as those of the gate that faced east. Seven steps led up to the gate, and its portico was ahead of them.
23
The inner court had a gate facing the north gate, like the one on the east. He measured the distance from gate to gate; it was 175 feet.
24
He brought me to the south side, and there was also a gate on the south. He measured its pilasters and portico; they had the same measurements as the others.
25
Both the gate and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was 87
1
/
2
feet long and 43
3
/
4
feet wide.
26
Its stairway had seven steps, and its portico was ahead of them. It had palm trees on its pilasters, one on each side.
27
The inner court had a gate on the south. He measured from gate to gate on the south; it was 175 feet.
The Inner Gates
28
Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate. When he measured the south gate, it had the same measurements as the others.
29
Its recesses, pilasters, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87
1
/
2
feet long and 43
3
/
4
feet wide.
30
(There were porticoes all around, 43
3
/
4
feet long and 8
3
/
4
feet wide. )
31
Its portico faced the outer court, and its pilasters were decorated with palm trees. Its stairway had eight steps.
32
Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. When he measured the gate, it had the same measurements as the others.
33
Its recesses, pilasters, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both it and its portico had windows all around. It was 87
1
/
2
feet long and 43
3
/
4
feet wide.
34
Its portico faced the outer court, and its pilasters were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.
35
Then he brought me to the north gate. When he measured it, it had the same measurements as the others,
36
as did its recesses, pilasters, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was 87
1
/
2
feet long and 43
3
/
4
feet wide.
37
Its portico faced the outer court, and its pilasters were decorated with palm trees on each side. Its stairway had eight steps.
Rooms for Preparing Sacrifices
38
There was a chamber whose door opened into the portico of the gate. The
•burnt
offering was to be washed there.
39
Inside the portico of the gate there were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering,
•sin
offering, and
•restitution
offering.
40
Outside, as one approaches the entrance of the north gate, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate's portico.
41
So there were four tables inside the gate and four outside, eight tables in all on which the slaughtering was to be done.
42
There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, each 31
1
/
2
inches long, 31
1
/
2
inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them.
43
There were three-inch hooks fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be laid on the tables.
Rooms for Singers and Priests
44
Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, there were chambers for the singers:one beside the north gate, facing south, and another beside the south gate, facing north.
45
Then the man said to me: “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple.
46
The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the ones from the sons of Levi who may approach the
Lord
to serve Him.”
47
Next he measured the court. It was square, 175 feet long and 175 feet wide. The altar was in front of the temple.
48
Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the pilasters of the portico; they were 8
3
/
4
feet thick on each side. The width of the gateway was 24
1
/
2
feet, and the side walls of the gate were 5
1
/
4
feet wide on each side.
49
The portico was 35 feet across and 21 feet deep, and 10 steps led up to it. There were pillars by the pilasters, one on each side.
Ezekiel
Inside the Temple
41
Next he brought me into the great hall and measured the pilasters; on each side the width of the pilaster was 10
1
/
2
feet.
2
The width of the entrance was 17
1
/
2
feet, and the side walls of the entrance were 8
3
/
4
feet wide on each side. He also measured the length of the great hall, 70 feet, and the width, 35 feet.
3
He went inside the next room and measured the pilasters at the entrance; they were 3
1
/
2
feet wide. The entrance was 10
1
/
2
feet wide, and the width of the entrance's side walls on each side was 12
1
/
4
feet.
4
He then measured the length of the room adjacent to the great hall, 35 feet, and the width, 35 feet. And he said to me, “This is the most holy place.”
Outside the Temple
5
Then he measured the wall of the temple; it was 10
1
/
2
feet thick. The width of the side rooms all around the temple was seven feet.
6
The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of 30 rooms each. There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.
7
The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple's broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.
8
I saw that the temple had a raised platform surrounding it; this foundation for the side rooms was 10
1
/
2
feet high.
9
The thickness of the outer wall of the side rooms was 8
3
/
4
feet. The free space between the side rooms of the temple
10
and the outer chambers was 35 feet wide all around the temple.
11
The side rooms opened into the free space, one entrance toward the north and another to the south. The area of free space was 8
3
/
4
feet wide all around.