all the people of the Land, a bullock for a sin offering. And Seven days of the Feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to The Lord, Seven bullocks and Seven rams without blemish, daily the Seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. And he shall prepare a meat offering. In the Seventh month, in the 15th day of the month, shall he do the like in the Feast of the Seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. [Feasts observed: verses 18, 21, New Moon, and Passover: 25. In the 14th of the Seventh month, the Civil Year begins,-tradition alleges the Creation happened [was finished?] at this time. In the 15th day, the Feast of Tabernacles, Lev. xxiii. 24-36. No mention is made in Ezekiel of the 10th of Tishri, the Day of Atonement, Lev. xxiii. 27, for fasting and affliction.] xlvi. 9-11. When the people of the Land shall come before The Lord in the solemn Feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the North gate to worship shall go out by the way of the South gate; and he that entereth by the way of the South gate shall go forth by the way of the North gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. And the Prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. And in the Feasts, and in the solemnities, the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the rams as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. THE CITY. [Ezek. xxxvii. 25. And My servant David shall be their Prince for ever.] Ezek. xlv. 6,7; xlvi. 16-18. And ye shall appoint the possession of the city 5,000 broad, and 25,000 long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. And a portion shall be for the Prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the West side westward, and from the East side eastward and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the West border unto the East border. Thus saith The Lord God; If the Prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance. But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the Year of Liberty [Jubile, the 50th year, Lev. xxv. 10]; after it shall return to the Prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. Moreover the Prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that My people be hot scattered every man from his possession. Ezek. xlviii. 8-15, 17-22, 30-35. And by the border of Judah, from the East side unto the West side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of 25,000 reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the East side unto the West side and the Sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. The oblation that ye shall offer unto The Lord shall be of 25,000 in length, and of 10,000 in breadth. [xlv. 2. Of this there shall be for the Sanctuary, 500 in length, with 500 in breadth, square round about; and 50 cubits round about for the suburbs [void places] thereof (xlii. 20).] And for them even for the Priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the North 25,000 in length, and toward the West 10,000 in breadth, and toward the East 10,000 in breadth, and toward the South 25,000 in length and the Sanctuary of The Lord shall be in the midst thereof. The sanctified portion shall be for the Priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge [ward, or ordinance], who went not astray when the Children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. And the 5,000 that are left in the breadth, over against the 25,000 shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs : and the city shall be in the midst thereof. And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the North 250, and toward the South 250, and toward the East 250, and toward the West 250. And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be 10,000 Eastward, and 10,000 Westward : and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food uuto them that serve the city. And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. All the oblation shall be 25,000 by 25,000: ye shall offer the holy oblation four square, with the possession of the city. And the residue shall be for the Prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the 25,000 of the oblation toward the East border, and Westward over against the 25,000 toward the West border, over against the portions for the Prince and it shall be the holy oblation, and the Sanctuary of the House shall be in the midst thereof. Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the Prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the Prince. 30-35. And these are the goings out of the city on the North side, 4,500 measures. And the gates of the city after the names of the Children of Israel three gates Northward; one gate of Reuben, one of Judah, one of Levi. : And at the East side, 4,500 and three gates; one of Joseph, one of Benjamin, one of Dan. And at the South side, 4,500 measures: and three gates; one of Simeon, one of Issachar, one of Zebulon. At the West side, 4,500 with their three gates; one of Gad, one of Asher, one of Naphtali. It was round about 18,000 measures: and the Name of the city from that Day shall be Jehovah-shammah [The Lord is there]. THE RIVER: THE STREAMS WHEREOF MAKE GLAD THE CITY OF GOD. [Ps. xlvi. 4. There is a River, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the Holy Place of the Tabernacles of The Most High. Ps. xcviii. 7, 8. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein! Let the floods clap their hands! Ps. xxxvi. 7-9. How excellent [precious] is Thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the Children of men put their trust under the Shadow of Thy Wings. They shall be abundantly [watered] satisfied with the fatness of Thy House; and Thou shalt make them drink of The River of Thy pleasures. For with Thee is The Foun tain of Life.] Ezek. xlvii. 1-12. Afterward he brought me again unto the Door of the House; and, behold! waters issued out from under the threshold of the House Eastward: for the fore-front of the House stood toward the East, and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the House at the South side of the Altar. [Zech. xiii. 1. "In that Day there shall be a Fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness." "Joel iii. 18. "And a Fountain shall come forth of the House of The Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim" (in the land of Moab,beyond the Dead Sea). John vii. 37. "In the last day, that great Day of The Feast, Jesus stood, and cried, saying, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink!'" (At the Feast of Tabernacles,-on the eighth day, Lev. xxiii. 36,-the smiting of the Rock in Horeb was commemorated by pouring out water from the Fountain of Siloam at the foot of the Altar, and breaking the vessel in which the water had been conveyed.) Ex. xvii. 6. "I will stand before thee there upon the Rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the Rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink."] Then brought he me out of the way of the gate Northward, and led me about the way without, unto the outer Gate by the way that looketh Eastward; and, behold! there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man who had the line in his hand went forth Eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a River that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a River that could not be passed over. And he said unto me, "Son of man! hast thou seen this?" Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the River. Now when I had returned, behold! at the bank [lip] of the River were very many trees on the one side and on the other. Then said he unto me, "These waters issue out toward the East country, and go down into the plain [Deut. iii. 17; iv. 49], and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. And it shall come to pass, that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the two rivers shall come, shall live;" [Zech. xiv. 8. And it shall be in that Day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former [Eastward, the Salt] Sea, and half of them toward the hinder [Westward, the Mediterranean] Sea in summer and in winter shall it be]; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither, for they shall be healed; and everything shall live whither the River cometh. And the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great Sea, exceeding many. But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof and that which shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. And by the River upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall come up all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new [principal] fruit according to its months, because their waters they issued out |