A description of] [Omit, and pass to chap. xliii.] CHAP. XL. 5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. [its various parts. 20 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. 21 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. 23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits. and 6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad. 7 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed. 8 He measured also the porch 24 After that he brought me toward the of the gate within, one reed. 9 Then south, and behold a gate toward the south: measured he the porch of the gate, eight and he measured the posts thereof and the cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; arches thereof according to these measures. and the porch of the gate was inward. 25 And there were windows in it and in 10 And the little chambers of the gate the arches thereof round about, like those eastward were three on this side, and three windows: the length was fifty cubits, and on that side; they three were of one mea- the breadth five and twenty cubits. sure: and the posts had one measure on 26 And there were seven steps to go up to this side and on that side. 11 And he it, and the arches thereof were before measured the breadth of the entry of the them and it had palm trees, oue on this gate, ten cubits; and the length of the side, and another on that side, upon the gate, thirteen cubits. 12 The space also posts thereof. 27 And there was a gate before the little chambers was one cubit in the inner court toward the south on this side, and the space was one cubit on he measured from gate to gate toward the that side and the little chambers were six south an hundred cubits. : 28 And he cubits on this side, and six cubits on that brought me to the inner court by the south side. 13 He measured then the gate gate: and he measured the south gate acfrom the roof of one little chamber to the cording to these measures; 29 And the roof of another: the breadth was five and little chambers thereof, and the posts twenty cubits, door against door. 14 He thereof, and the arches thereof, according made also posts of threescore cubits, even to these measures: and there were windows unto the post of the court round about the in it, and in the arches thereof round about : gate. 15 And from the face of the gate it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty of the entrance unto the face of the porch cubits broad. 30 And the arches round of the inner gate were fifty cubits. about were five and twenty cubits long, 16 And there were narrow windows to the and five cubits broad. 31 And the little chambers, and to their posts within arches thereof were toward the utter court; the gate round about, and likewise to the and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: arches and windows were round about and the going up to it had eight steps. inward and upon each post were palm 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. 33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. 34 Aud trees. 17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement. 18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement. 19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefrout of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward. the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side and on that NOTES. Ver. 12. Space-Heb. "Limit," bound, or boun. dary. Some understand this of a projecting rail, or baiustrade. Newcome. Ver. 16. Narrow-Heb. "Closed." See 1 Kings vi. 4. Arches- Marg. "Porches;" So New come.-Windows inward-Marg. &c. "Within." Ver. 20. That looked-Heb. "Whose face was.” Ver. 21. Arches-or" porches." See ver. 16. Ver. 33. Long-Villalpandus and others explain this of height; but query? side: and the going up to it had eight steps. 35 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; 36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. 37 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, aud on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. 38 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering. 39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offer ing. 40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables. 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices. 42 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. 43 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. 44 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north. 45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. 46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sous of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him. 47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house. 48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the [of the building, porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. 49 The length of the po.ch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. AF CHAP. XLI. FTERWARD he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle. 2 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. 3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. 4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place. 5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four rubits, round about the house on every side. 6 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they en tered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, hut they had not hold in the wall of the house. 7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side cham bers for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased frem the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst. 8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits. 9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within. 10 And between the cham bers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. 11 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the NOTES. Ver. 41. Whereupon they slew, &c.-this shews that they were intended for Jewish worshippers, and therefore this part, at least, can refer to no Christian temple. Ver. 43. Hooks-Newcome, " Edges." So most of the ancient versions. CHAP. XLI. Ver. 2. The door trance," or door-way. Ver. 6. And the side chambers, &c. - Newcome, "And the chambers were one over another, three stories, (Heb. "chamber over chamber, thrice", thirty in rows, &c. - Have hold-Heb. "Bebelden.” Ver. 7. There was an enlarging-Heb. It was broader, and went round; Newcome," There a widening and a winding about, sull upward, perhaps a winding stair case. Ver. 15. Galleries-Newcome," Building“,” north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about. 12 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was se venty cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. 13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; 14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. 15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, ceiled with wood round about, aud from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered; 17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. 18 And it was made with cherubins and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces; 19 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about. 20 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple. 21 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appear ance of the one as the appearance of the other. 22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD. 23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. 24 And the doors had two leaves upiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door. 25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without. 26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on [and chambers. the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks. CHAP. XLII. THEN he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. 2 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories. 4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. 6 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. 7 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thercof was fifty cubits. 8 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits. 9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. 10 The : chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building. 11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. 12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. 13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy. 14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of NOTES. Ver. 16. Ceiled-Newcome," Overlaid with wood." Ver.22. Altar of wood-the altar of incense is meant. See Exod. xxx. 1, 2.—The length thereof-these words, the second time of occurring, seem to be a mistake in copying. Newcome, following ixx, reads "the base thereof." The letters are very similar in Heb. CHAP. XLII. Ver. 1. The utter-that is, the outer court, for the people of Israel. So ver. 14, &c. Ver.5. The upper chambers were shorter-that is, the building narrowed as it rose. the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people. 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about. 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. 20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. CHAP. XLIII. AFTERWARD he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the visions that I saw by the river Chebar; and 1 fell upon my face. 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, [divine glory. behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. 7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more de file, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. 10 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. 11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. 12 This is the law of the house; upon the top of the mountain the whole NOTES. Ver. 16. Five hundred reeds Newcome and Boothroyd, following the LXX and Arabic, read, "Cubits," instead of reeds; the mountain itself, according to Josephus, not being large enough to admit the other measure. It may be recollected, however, that this temple was only seen in vision. Ver. 20. The profane place, i.e. the place for the common people. CHAP. XLIII. Ver. 3. When I came to destroy the city-Marg. "When I came to prophesy that the city should be destroyed." See Jer. i. 10 Ver, 7. By the carcases of their kings.-Michaelis 2 limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house. (U) [Omit, and pass to chap. xlvii.] 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge there of round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 So the aliar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof. 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; aud his stairs shall look toward the east. 18 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. 19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. 20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four borns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: hus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. CHAP. XLIII. [of the altars. 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. 22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock. 23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD. 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. 26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. 27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XLIV. THEN he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. 2 Theu said the LORD uuto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no mau shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD EXPOSITION. (U) Ver.1-12. Another vision of the divine lory, with reproof and admonitions. Part of his chapter evidently relates to the former emples that had been grossly polluted by dolatry, which, upon the return of the livine presence, they are warned against rebeating. From what is said, (ver. 7 and 8,) t seems to be justly inferable that some of heir idolatrous kings had been buried within the precincts of the temple-monuments perhaps erected to them, (as in our hurches), and their effigies even idolized. Thus idolatry became practised under the same roof with the worship of Jehovah, with only an inner wall between the jealous God of Israel and the objects of his holy jealousy; and therefore was that glo. rious temple with all its treasures utterly destroyed. They are now warned to consider this, before they attempt to build another temple on the model here before them; and they are admonished to re member that holiness was the law of the house through all its departments and appurtenances. NOTES. Ver. 13. Even the bottom - Heb. "Bosom," this tar having a rim (Heb. "lip ") round it. Ver. 15. So the altar.-This altar, or the hearth of , is called in the Heb. Ariel. See Notes on Isaiah xix. 1,2. Ver. 26. Consecrate themselves--Heb. "Fill their hands;" i. e. with sacrifices. See Note on Exod. xxviii. 41. CHAP. XLIV. Ver. 1. The outward sanctuary i.e. the court of the Priests. Houbigant. Ver. 2. This gate shall be shut-that is, to the public. Among other marks of respect paid to a |