The priests reproved. Before y Lev. 2, 13, Num. 18, CHAPTER XLIV. Before Ordinances for the priests. office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any Cheers of my † holy things, in the most holy place; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed: 24 And thou shaltoffer them before the LORD, and CHRIST 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 2 Chr. 13,7. 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 pu-that shall be done therein. 19. Mat. 5, 13. Mark 50. Col. 4,6. Hel, fill their hands, Lev. 7, 37. & 8, 35. z. ch. 40,39. a Luke 2, 10. Rom. 5, 2. Ερά. 1,6. & 2, 3, 4. Col. 1, 19, 20. Heb. 10, 20. The priests reproved for polluting of the sanctuary. HEN he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary, which looketh toward the east, and it was shut. 2 Then said the LORD unto me, This gate shall Ex. 12,12. be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. Deut. 29, 29. Ps. 181, 2. Rom. 11, 3 It is for the prince; the prince he shall sit in it ch. 43,2 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. Jer. 30, Dan. 12, 1. Mat. 11, 27. 1 Tim. 6, 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell upon my face. 574. Heb. hole nesses in the holinesses of 14 But I will make them 'keepers of the charge li of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all r Lev. 21, 1 Sam. 2, 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Za- verse 11. dok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the Num. 25, children of Israel went astray from me, they shall s come near to me to minister unto me, and they k shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and 27. the blood, saith the Lord GoD: 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table to minister unto me, and they shall " u keep my charge. 1 Kings 2, t ch. 40, 46. 1 Tim. 3, 10. u Lev. 2, 15. Deut. 33, 7, 17 And it shall come to pass, that, when they en- Num. 3.7. ter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be 10. clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall x Rev. 4, 4 come upon them while they minister in the gates of & 7, 13. the inner court, and within. y Phil. 4, 11. z Ex. 28, 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their 1 Tin. 6, & heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that fo causeth a sweat. 1 Cor. 11, 10. 19 And when they go forth into the outer court, a Mat. 6, 4, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put 2 Cor. 2,17 off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the Mat 6, 8, people with their garments. 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suf 6. 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, all that I say unto thee concerning all the { fer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll c 1 Cor. 11, ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. 6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widthe house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GoD, Oyeow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take Lev. 21, house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abomi-maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a 13. nations, 7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary, 23 And they shall teach my people the difference 1 Deut. 10, strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircum-between the holy and profane, and cause them to cised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, } discern between the unclean and the clean. even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and 24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgthe blood, and they have broken my covenant, be-ment; and they shall judge it 'according to my judg- 1 Deut 17, cause of all your abominations. 1 Sam. 2 away from me after their idols; they shall even{ary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctua Chr. 28, verse 14. bear their iniquity. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them before 1913 their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall Hosea 5, 1. into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand ch. 14, 3, 4. 13. 1 Num. 6, & ry, he shall offer his sin-offering, saith the Lord Gov possession in Israel; I am their possession. 11. 1 Cor. 3,4 29 They shall eat the meat-offering, and the " sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. n Lev. 27, 21. ο Εx. 13. 2 11. 30 And the first of all the first-fruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your obla-Nu against them, saith the Lord God, and they shalltions, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto Deut. 14 bear their iniquity. the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause 13 And they shall not come near unto me to do the the blessing to rest in thy house. Nch. 10, 37 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is CHRIST dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. CHAPTER XLV. pEx 22, 1 Tim. 3, 3 a Ps. 16, 5. Mat. 25, 34. b Ex. 29, 1 The portion of land for the sanctuary, 6 for the city, 7 for the prince, &c. and Ordinances for the prince, and people. 16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel. Before CHRIST 574. p Isa. 16, 1. & 15, 5. 17. And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt- MOREOVER, when ye shall divide by lot the tion unto the LORD, a holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand Rom. 12. 1. reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This 1 Pet. 2,5. shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about. cch. 48, 18. 2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five Heb. 12, 22, 21 hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, 3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the + Heb. holy the most holy place. of holiness r John 1,16 96. r 2 Cor. 5, ing, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, 21. to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. Gal. 3, 13 18 Thus saith the Lord GOD, In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanc- Gal. 8, 23 tuary: 19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. 20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests, 5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, *for a possession for twenty chambers. 6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel. 7 And a portion shall be for the 'prince on the one chap. 44, 3. side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy Rev. 11, 15. portion, and of the possession of the city, before the Ps. 8. 22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself, and for all the people of the land, ta bullock + Heu. for a sin-offering. 23 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. 24 And he shall prepare a meat-offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah. a bullock of sin, Lev. 43. u Isn. 53, 9. verse 17 2 Cor. 5. 21 x Lev. 19, y Num. 29. 25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of 12 oblation of the holy portion, and before the posses-the month, shall he do † the like in the feast of the Heb. de Ban 7,74. sion of the city, from the west side westward, and seven days, according to the sin-offering, according cording to to the burnt-offering, and according to the meat-feast of offering, and according to the oil. CHAPTER XLVI. seven days, Zech. 14, 16. Ordinances for the prince in his worship, and for the people. b Isa. 66, 25. cch. 44, 3 2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priest shall prepare his burnt- di Pet. 1,& offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship 11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one mea-at the threshold of the gate; then he shall go forth'; 1,17. sure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the 3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD, in the 12 And the shekel shall be twenty "gerahs:twen-sabbaths, and in the new moons. Num. 3, 47 ty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels Rev. 1, 6 e Mat. 24, 10, 11, 12. John 10. 7.& 14,8 1 Cor. 3, 7, 11. 4 And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer g Num, 20, unto the LORD in the sabbath-day shall be six 5, 10. lambs without blemish, and a rain without blemish.co 5 And the meat-offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat-offering for the lambs tas het Heb. the shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. hand, 6 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and Num. 28, a ram: they shall be without blemish gift of his ver. 7, 11. 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel, for a meat-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for peace-lambs according 'as his hand shall attain unto, and offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the a hin of oil to an ephah. Lord GOD. § 8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in verses. 7 And he shall prepare a meat-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram; and for the 12 92, 12. & 12, 8. k 25, 28. Nuin. 6,21. CHAPTER XLVII. The prince's inheritance. by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go { CHRIST forth by the way thereof. Before 9 But 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. 10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go 1 Eph. 3,12, forth. 18. Heb. 3, 6. & 4, 16. & 10, 19. 1 John 2, 2. m Deut. 16, 10. verses 5, 7. 2 Cor. 8, 12. Heb. morning by morning, Num. 28, 3, 4. 11 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 lambs" as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah. 12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt-offering or peace-offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings as he did on the sabbathday: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt-offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish; thou shalt prepare it † every morning. 14 And thou shalt prepare a meat-offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the Heb. 3, 28. third part of a hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat-offering continually, by a perpetual ordinance, unto the LORD. The vision of the holy waters. CHAPTER XLVII. Before CHRIST 574. a Isai. 23 Zech. 14, & Luke 24, 47 FTERWARD he brought me again unto the went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, & 35, 7. Joel 2, 28. John 7, 28. c John 1, 16 19, 34, 35. d Pr. 4, 18. Mat. 13, 23. 4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me 2 Pet & through the waters; the waters were to the knees. 5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was 6 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. 32 Eph. 3, 14 7 Now, when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side L and on the other. 8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out 15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat-toward the east country, and go down into the desert, burnt-offering. ■ 1 Cor. 15, offering, and the oil, every morning, for a continual 58. o Lev. 25, 10. 16 11 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. and go into the sea; which being brought forth into & 92, 12. Rev. 22, 1. Acts 2, 4 9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of Heb. boil the priests shall † boil the trespass-offering and the the trespasse sin-offering, where they shall bake the meat-offering; } according to his months, because their waters they Rev. 22,2 21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. 22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long, and thirty broad : these four corners were of one measure. 23 And there was a row of building round about in Tim, is. them, round about them four, and it was made with 2 boiling-places under the rows round about. Rom. 12, of them that boil, where the ministers of the houselon, as men go to Zedad; Het 13 19. shall boil the sacrifice of the people. 16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, whichisbetween 21. 2 SAM The portions of EZEKIEL. the twelve tribes, &c. the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; 12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall CHRIST Hazar-hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran. be unto them a thing most holy, by the border of the CHRIST 9. Before No. 34, Zec. 14, 8. 17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-} Levites. 13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be sand. 18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hau-five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thou ran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from 19 And the south side southward, from Tamar • Num. 20, even to the "waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. 20 The west side also shall be 13, 14. x Josh. 13, 3. & 15, 47. y Acts 25, 4,9 Rom. 3, 29. & 4, 1 & 10, 12. & 16, 9. 1 Cor. 12, 13. the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side. 21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel. 22 11 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you as Before 58. & 16,13 Gal. 5, 1. verse 8. 2 Tim.1, 14. 2 John Rev. 3, 11 Deut. 20, 16 And these shall be the measures thereof: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the or west side four thousand and five hundred. 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the born in the country among the children of Israel; } north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south tribes of Israel. Gal 5, 28, they shall have inheritance with you among the 1, 23 The portions of the twelve tribes....8 Of the sanctuary. TOW these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath, (for Ps. 72, 8. these are his sides east and west,) a portion for Dan. 2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher. 21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the 1 ch. 45,2 6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east) 811 And by the border of Judah, from the east chap.45, side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand 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. Prov. 8, Song 5, 10. Isa. 2, 2. & 11, 10. & 33, 22. & 53, 7. 460 7. 9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. 10 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this 317 holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thou15,12. sand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD hall be in the midst thereof. 22 Moreover, from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the citybeing 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. 23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion. 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion. 25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion. 26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion. Joka 12, 32. h. 7, 14. Rev 2 1. 11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion. is hera 28 And by the border of1 Gad, at the south side 1 Rev. 7, 7. southward, the border shall be even from Tamar name unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river omitted, toward the great sea. Gen. 48.15. Deut. 27, 12 1 Kings 11 Ps. 78, 65. 29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot 26. unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these. are their portions, saith the Lord God. CHAPTER I. Nebuchadnezzar forgetteth his dream. Before Heb. 33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of CHRIST Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. 34 At the west side four thousand and five hun- Jehovak dred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. shammak, Jer. 3, 17. Zech. 2, 10. Luke 19, 12. Rev. 14, 1. 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: Acts 3, 21. and the name of the city from that day shall be, & 21,512 + The LORD is there. The Book of DANIEL. 1 Jehoiakim'scaptivity....3 Ashpenaztaketh Daniel, Hananiah, & 22, 3 Mat. 4, 4. } 15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared & fairer and fatter in flesh than all the chil-Pr-17, dren which did eat the portion of the king's meat. IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their h 2 Kings Nebuchadnezzar king of Baby-meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave John 6, 26. b Ps. 37, 85. lon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. 607. Jer. 25, 1 & 52, 11. c Ps. 89, 32. 606. of Judah came 2 And the LORD gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house them pulse. 10, 16. James 1,17, 17 As for these four childrer, God gave them i Isa. 28, 20. knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and k Col. 2, 8. dJudg. 2, of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar, to { Daniel had understanding in all 1 visions and dreams. Titus 1 Acts 7, 22. knowledge, and understanding science, and such asing, that the king inquired of them, he found them 10 Ex. 18, 21. ten hands, Gen. 43,84 had ability in them to stand in the king's palace,+ ten times better than all the magicians and astrolo-Heb. and whom they might teach the learning and the n1 King tongue of the Chaldeans. gers that were in all his realm. year of king Cyrus. CHAPTER II. 1 Nebuchadnezzar forgetteth his dream....14 It is revealed to AND in the second year of the reign of Nebuchad 28. & 8, 1. 605. nezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep a Gen. 41, brake from him. b Gen. 4, e 2 Then the king commanded to call the magi- c Esth. 4, cians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the d Mat. 2, 1. Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. e Gen. 41, 8 3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the fo dream. Ex. 7, 11. verse 25. h Acts 2,08 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, 1 Jen. 44, 25. and we will shew the interpretation. k 1 Cor. 8, 1 5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be 1 Pr. 18, 14. made a dunghill : 17. 6 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation 7 They answered again, and said, Let the king el 26,3. seest, deal with thy servants. (Psal. 1, 3. |