Prophecy against Gog—Invaders Destroyed

1 “And ayou, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says the Lord 1God, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, 2prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal;

2 and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

3 “I will astrike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand.

4 “You will afall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as bfood to every 1kind of predatory bird and beast of the field.

5 “You will fall on the 1open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

6 “And I will send afire upon Magog and those who inhabit the bcoastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the Lord.

7 “My aholy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be bprofaned anymore. And the cnations will know that I am the Lord, the dHoly One in Israel.

8 “Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.

9 “Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will ago out and make bfires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.

10 “They will not take wood from the field or gather firewood from the forests, for they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoil of those who despoiled them and seize the aplunder of those who plundered them,” declares the Lord God.

11 “On that day I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his 1horde, and they will call it the valley of 2Hamon-gog.

12 “For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to acleanse the land.

13 “Even all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be 1to their arenown on the day that I bglorify Myself,” declares the Lord God.

14 “They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, aburying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

15 “As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a man’s bone, then he will 1set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it in the valley of 2Hamon-gog.

16 “And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.” ’

17 “As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘Speak to every 1kind of abird and to every abeast of the field, “Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to bsacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

18 “You will aeat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were brams, lambs, goats and cbulls, all of them fatlings of dBashan.

19 “So you will eat fat until you are glutted, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

20 “You will be glutted at My table with ahorses and charioteers, with mighty men and all the men of war,” declares the Lord God.

21 “And I will set My aglory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them.

22 “And the house of Israel will aknow that I am the Lord their God from that day onward.

23 “The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their ainiquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I bhid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.

24 “aAccording to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.” ’ ”

Israel Restored

25 Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Now I will 1arestore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole bhouse of Israel; and I will be cjealous for My holy name.

26 “They will 1aforget their disgrace and all their treachery which they 2perpetrated against Me, when they blive securely on their own land with cno one to make them afraid.

27 “When I abring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall be bsanctified 1through them in the sight of the many nations.

28 “Then they will know that I am the Lord their God because I made them go into exile among the nations, and then gathered them again to their own land; and I will leave none of them there any longer.

29 “I will not hide My face from them any longer, for I will have apoured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,” declares the Lord God.

Chapter 40

Vision of the Man with a Measuring Rod

1 In the atwenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the bcity was 1taken, on that same day the chand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.

2 In the avisions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very bhigh mountain, and on it cto the south there was a dstructure like a city.

3 So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of abronze, with a bline of flax and a cmeasuring 1rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway.

4 The man said to me, “aSon of man, bsee with your eyes, hear with your ears, and give attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. cDeclare to the house of Israel all that you see.”

Measurements Relating to the Temple

5 And behold, there was a awall on the outside of the 1temple all around, and in the man’s hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a 2handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the 3wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

6 Then he went to the gate which faced aeast, went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod 1in width; and the other threshold was one rod 1in width.

7 The aguardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate 1facing inward was one rod.

8 Then he measured the porch of the gate 1facing inward, one rod.

9 He measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was 1faced inward.

10 The guardrooms of the gate toward the east numbered three on each side; the three of them had the same measurement. The side pillars also had the same measurement on each side.

11 And he measured the width of the 1gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

12 There was a 1barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side.

13 He measured the gate from the roof of the one guardroom to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the door opposite.

14 He made the side pillars sixty cubits high; the gate extended round about to the side pillar of the acourtyard.

15 From the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits.

16 There were 1ashuttered windows looking toward the guardrooms, and toward their side pillars within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. And there were windows all around inside; and on each side pillar were bpalm tree ornaments.

17 Then he brought me into the aouter court, and behold, there were bchambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers 1faced the pavement.

18 The pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the 1side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates.

19 Then he measured the width from the front of the alower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court, a bhundred cubits on the east and on the north.

20 As for the agate of the outer court which faced the north, he measured its length and its width.

21 1It had three aguardrooms on each side; and its bside pillars and its porches 2had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was cfifty cubits and the width dtwenty-five cubits.

22 Its awindows and its porches and its palm tree ornaments had the same measurements as the bgate which faced toward the east; and 1it was reached by seven csteps, and its 2porch was in front of them.

23 The inner court had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a ahundred cubits from gate to gate.

24 Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a agate toward the south; and he measured its bside pillars and its porches according to 1those same measurements.

25 1The gate and its porches had awindows all around like 2those other windows; the length was bfifty cubits and the width twenty-five cubits.

26 There were seven asteps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had bpalm tree ornaments on its side pillars, one on each side.

27 The inner court had a gate toward the asouth; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a bhundred cubits.

28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate aaccording to those same measurements.

29 Its aguardrooms also, its side pillars and its bporches were according to those same measurements. And 1the gate and its porches had bwindows all around; it was cfifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

30 There were aporches all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits wide.

31 Its porches were toward the outer court; and apalm tree ornaments were on its side pillars, and its stairway had eight bsteps.

32 He brought me into the ainner court toward the east. And he measured the gate baccording to those same measurements.

33 Its aguardrooms also, its side pillars and its porches were according to those same measurements. And 1the gate and its porches had