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Ezekiel 39:1-40:27
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Prophecy against Gog—Invaders Destroyed

39 “And (A)you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘This is what the Lord [a]God says: “Behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; 2 and I will turn you around, lead you on a rope, take you up from the remotest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. 3 Then I will (B)strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand. 4 You will (C)fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops, and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as (D)food to every [b]kind of predatory bird and animal of the field. 5 You will fall on the [c]open field; for it is I who have spoken,” declares the Lord God. 6 “And I will send (E)fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the (F)coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the Lord.

7 “And I will make My (G)holy name known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not allow My holy name to be (H)profaned anymore. But the (I)nations will know that I am the Lord, the (J)Holy 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 (K)go out and make (L)fires with the weapons and burn them, both [d]bucklers and shields, 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, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will take the spoils of those who plundered them and seize the (M)plunder of those who plundered them,” declares the Lord God.

11 “On that day I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block the way of those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his horde, and they will call it the Valley of [e]Hamon-gog. 12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to (N)cleanse the land. 13 And all the people of the land will bury them; and it will be [f]to their (O)renown on the day that I (P)appear in My glory,” declares the Lord God. 14 “They will also select men who will constantly pass through the land, (Q)burying those who were passing through, those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will conduct a search. 15 As those who pass through the land pass through and anyone sees a human bone, then he will [g]set up a marker by it until the burial detail has buried it in the Valley of [h]Hamon-gog. 16 And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”’

17 “Now as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Say to every [i]kind of (R)bird and to every (S)animal of the field: “Assemble and come, gather from every direction to My sacrifice, which I am going to (T)sacrifice for you as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel; and you will eat flesh and drink blood. 18 You will (U)eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the leaders of the earth, as though they were (V)rams, lambs, goats, and (W)bulls, all of them fattened livestock of (X)Bashan. 19 So you will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, from My sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. 20 You will eat your fill at My table with (Y)horses and charioteers, with warriors and all the men of war,” declares the Lord God.

21 “And I will place My (Z)glory 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 (AA)know 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 (AB)wrongdoing, because they were disloyal to Me, and I (AC)hid My face from them; so I handed them over to their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword. 24 (AD)In accordance with their uncleanness and their offenses I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.”’”

Israel Restored

25 Therefore this is what the Lord God says: “Now I will (AE)restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on all the (AF)house of Israel; and I will be (AG)jealous for My holy name. 26 They will [j](AH)forget their disgrace and all their [k]treachery which they perpetrated against Me, when they (AI)live securely on their own land with (AJ)no one to make them afraid. 27 When I (AK)bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the lands of their enemies, then I shall (AL)show Myself holy [l]through 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 I 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 (AM)poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,” declares the Lord God.

Vision of the Man with a Measuring Rod

40 In the (AN)twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the (AO)city was [m]taken, on this very day the (AP)hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there. 2 In the (AQ)visions of God He brought me into the land of Israel and set me on a very (AR)high mountain, and on it (AS)to the south there was something like a (AT)structure of a city. 3 So He brought me there; and behold, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of (AU)bronze, with a (AV)thread of flax and a (AW)measuring [n]rod in his hand; and he was standing in the gateway. 4 And the man said to me, “(AX)Son of man, (AY)see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and [o]pay attention to all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here in order to show it to you. (AZ)Declare to the house of Israel all that you see.”

Measurements Relating to the Temple

5 And behold, there was a (BA)wall on the outside of the [p]temple all around, and in the man’s hand was a measuring rod of six [q]cubits, [r]each of which was a [s]cubit and a hand width. So he measured the thickness of the [t]wall, one rod; and the height, one rod. 6 Then he went to the gate which faced (BB)east, went up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod [u]in width; and the other threshold was one rod [v]in width. 7 The (BC)guardroom 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 [w]facing inward was one rod. 8 Then he measured the porch of the gate [x]facing inward, one rod. 9 And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and its side pillars, two cubits. And the porch of the gate was [y]faced 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 [z]gateway, ten cubits, and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. 12 There was a [aa]barrier wall one cubit wide in front of the guardrooms on each side; and the guardrooms were six cubits square on each side. 13 And 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 all around to the side pillar of the (BD)courtyard. 15 And from the front of the entrance gate to the front of the inner porch of the gate was fifty cubits. 16 And there were [ab](BE)shuttered 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 (BF)palm tree decorations.

17 Then he brought me into the (BG)outer courtyard, and behold, there were (BH)chambers and a stone pavement made for the courtyard all around; thirty chambers [ac]faced the pavement. 18 And the pavement (that is, the lower pavement) was by the [ad]side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. 19 Then he measured the width from the front of the (BI)lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner courtyard, a (BJ)hundred cubits on the east and on the north.

20 And as for the (BK)gate of the outer courtyard which faced north, he measured its length and its width. 21 [ae]It had three (BL)guardrooms on each side; and its (BM)side pillars and its porches [af]had the same measurement as the first gate. Its length was (BN)fifty cubits, and the width (BO)twenty-five cubits. 22 Its (BP)windows, its porches, and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as the (BQ)gate which faced east; and [ag]it was reached by seven (BR)steps, and its [ah]porch was in front of them. 23 The inner courtyard had a gate opposite the gate on the north as well as the gate on the east; and he measured a (BS)hundred cubits from gate to gate.

24 Then he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a (BT)gate toward the south; and he measured its (BU)side pillars and its porches according to [ai]those same measurements. 25 [aj]The gate and its porches had (BV)windows all around like [ak]those other windows; the length was (BW)fifty cubits and the width, twenty-five cubits. 26 There were seven (BX)steps going up to it, and its porches were in front of them; and it had (BY)palm tree decorations on its side pillars, one on each side. 27 The inner courtyard had a gate toward the (BZ)south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a (CA)hundred cubits.

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:1 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  2. Ezekiel 39:4 Lit wing
  3. Ezekiel 39:5 Lit faces of the field
  4. Ezekiel 39:9 I.e., small shields
  5. Ezekiel 39:11 Or the multitude of Gog
  6. Ezekiel 39:13 Or a memorial for them
  7. Ezekiel 39:15 Lit build
  8. Ezekiel 39:15 Or the multitude of Gog
  9. Ezekiel 39:17 Lit wing
  10. Ezekiel 39:26 Another reading is bear
  11. Ezekiel 39:26 Or disloyalty
  12. Ezekiel 39:27 Lit in
  13. Ezekiel 40:1 Lit struck
  14. Ezekiel 40:3 Lit reed, and so throughout the ch
  15. Ezekiel 40:4 Lit set your heart
  16. Ezekiel 40:5 Lit house
  17. Ezekiel 40:5 I.e., “long” cubits, see note 4
  18. Ezekiel 40:5 Lit by the cubit and
  19. Ezekiel 40:5 A cubit and hand width equals about 21 in. or 53 cm
  20. Ezekiel 40:5 Lit building
  21. Ezekiel 40:6 Or in depth
  22. Ezekiel 40:6 Or in depth
  23. Ezekiel 40:7 Lit from the house
  24. Ezekiel 40:8 Lit from the house
  25. Ezekiel 40:9 Lit from the house
  26. Ezekiel 40:11 Lit entrance of the gate
  27. Ezekiel 40:12 Lit border
  28. Ezekiel 40:16 Or beveled inwards
  29. Ezekiel 40:17 Lit to
  30. Ezekiel 40:18 Lit shoulder
  31. Ezekiel 40:21 Lit Its guardrooms were three
  32. Ezekiel 40:21 Lit were
  33. Ezekiel 40:22 Lit they were going up into it
  34. Ezekiel 40:22 Another reading is porches
  35. Ezekiel 40:24 Lit these measurements, and so throughout the ch
  36. Ezekiel 40:25 Lit It
  37. Ezekiel 40:25 Lit these windows
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Ezekiel 39:1-40:27
New Living Translation

The Slaughter of Gog’s Hordes

39 “Son of man, prophesy against Gog. Give him this message from the Sovereign Lord: I am your enemy, O Gog, ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal. 2 I will turn you around and drive you toward the mountains of Israel, bringing you from the distant north. 3 I will knock the bow from your left hand and the arrows from your right hand, and I will leave you helpless. 4 You and your army and your allies will all die on the mountains. I will feed you to the vultures and wild animals. 5 You will fall in the open fields, for I have spoken, says the Sovereign Lord. 6 And I will rain down fire on Magog and on all your allies who live safely on the coasts. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

7 “In this way, I will make known my holy name among my people of Israel. I will not let anyone bring shame on it. And the nations, too, will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. 8 That day of judgment will come, says the Sovereign Lord. Everything will happen just as I have declared it.

9 “Then the people in the towns of Israel will go out and pick up your small and large shields, bows and arrows, javelins and spears, and they will use them for fuel. There will be enough to last them seven years! 10 They won’t need to cut wood from the fields or forests, for these weapons will give them all the fuel they need. They will plunder those who planned to plunder them, and they will rob those who planned to rob them, says the Sovereign Lord.

11 “And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea.[a] It will block the way of those who travel there, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog’s Hordes. 12 It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land. 13 Everyone in Israel will help, for it will be a glorious victory for Israel when I demonstrate my glory on that day, says the Sovereign Lord.

14 “After seven months, teams of men will be appointed to search the land for skeletons to bury, so the land will be made clean again. 15 Whenever bones are found, a marker will be set up so the burial crews will take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog’s Hordes. 16 (There will be a town there named Hamonah, which means ‘horde.’) And so the land will finally be cleansed.

17 “And now, son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call all the birds and wild animals. Say to them: Gather together for my great sacrificial feast. Come from far and near to the mountains of Israel, and there eat flesh and drink blood! 18 Eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of princes as though they were rams, lambs, goats, and bulls—all fattened animals from Bashan! 19 Gorge yourselves with flesh until you are glutted; drink blood until you are drunk. This is the sacrificial feast I have prepared for you. 20 Feast at my banquet table—feast on horses and charioteers, on mighty men and all kinds of valiant warriors, says the Sovereign Lord.

21 “In this way, I will demonstrate my glory to the nations. Everyone will see the punishment I have inflicted on them and the power of my fist when I strike. 22 And from that time on the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. 23 The nations will then know why Israel was sent away to exile—it was punishment for sin, for they were unfaithful to their God. Therefore, I turned away from them and let their enemies destroy them. 24 I turned my face away and punished them because of their defilement and their sins.

Restoration for God’s People

25 “So now, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will end the captivity of my people[b]; I will have mercy on all Israel, for I jealously guard my holy reputation! 26 They will accept responsibility for[c] their past shame and unfaithfulness after they come home to live in peace in their own land, with no one to bother them. 27 When I bring them home from the lands of their enemies, I will display my holiness among them for all the nations to see. 28 Then my people will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away to exile and brought them home again. I will leave none of my people behind. 29 And I will never again turn my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit upon the people of Israel. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

The New Temple Area

40 On April 28,[d] during the twenty-fifth year of our captivity—fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem—the Lord took hold of me. 2 In a vision from God he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. From there I could see toward the south what appeared to be a city. 3 As he brought me nearer, I saw a man whose face shone like bronze standing beside a gateway entrance. He was holding in his hand a linen measuring cord and a measuring rod.

4 He said to me, “Son of man, watch and listen. Pay close attention to everything I show you. You have been brought here so I can show you many things. Then you will return to the people of Israel and tell them everything you have seen.”

The East Gateway

5 I could see a wall completely surrounding the Temple area. The man took a measuring rod that was 10 1⁄2 feet[e] long and measured the wall, and the wall was 10 1⁄2 feet[f] thick and 10 1⁄2 feet high.

6 Then he went over to the eastern gateway. He climbed the steps and measured the threshold of the gateway; it was 10 1⁄2 feet front to back.[g] 7 There were guard alcoves on each side built into the gateway passage. Each of these alcoves was 10 1⁄2 feet square, with a distance between them of 8 3⁄4 feet[h] along the passage wall. The gateway’s inner threshold, which led to the entry room at the inner end of the gateway passage, was 10 1⁄2 feet front to back. 8 He also measured the entry room of the gateway.[i] 9 It was 14 feet[j] across, with supporting columns 3 1⁄2 feet[k] thick. This entry room was at the inner end of the gateway structure, facing toward the Temple.

10 There were three guard alcoves on each side of the gateway passage. Each had the same measurements, and the dividing walls separating them were also identical. 11 The man measured the gateway entrance, which was 17 1⁄2 feet[l] wide at the opening and 22 3⁄4 feet[m] wide in the gateway passage. 12 In front of each of the guard alcoves was a 21-inch[n] curb. The alcoves themselves were 10 1⁄2 feet[o] on each side.

13 Then he measured the entire width of the gateway, measuring the distance between the back walls of facing guard alcoves; this distance was 43 3⁄4 feet.[p] 14 He measured the dividing walls all along the inside of the gateway up to the entry room of the gateway; this distance was 105 feet.[q] 15 The full length of the gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet[r] from one end to the other. 16 There were recessed windows that narrowed inward through the walls of the guard alcoves and their dividing walls. There were also windows in the entry room. The surfaces of the dividing walls were decorated with carved palm trees.

The Outer Courtyard

17 Then the man brought me through the gateway into the outer courtyard of the Temple. A stone pavement ran along the walls of the courtyard, and thirty rooms were built against the walls, opening onto the pavement. 18 This pavement flanked the gates and extended out from the walls into the courtyard the same distance as the gateway entrance. This was the lower pavement. 19 Then the man measured across the Temple’s outer courtyard between the outer and inner gateways; the distance was 175 feet.[s]

The North Gateway

20 The man measured the gateway on the north just like the one on the east. 21 Here, too, there were three guard alcoves on each side, with dividing walls and an entry room. All the measurements matched those of the east gateway. The gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves. 22 The windows, the entry room, and the palm tree decorations were identical to those in the east gateway. There were seven steps leading up to the gateway entrance, and the entry room was at the inner end of the gateway passage. 23 Here on the north side, just as on the east, there was another gateway leading to the Temple’s inner courtyard directly opposite this outer gateway. The distance between the two gateways was 175 feet.

The South Gateway

24 Then the man took me around to the south gateway and measured its various parts, and they were exactly the same as in the others. 25 It had windows along the walls as the others did, and there was an entry room where the gateway passage opened into the outer courtyard. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves. 26 This gateway also had a stairway of seven steps leading up to it, and an entry room at the inner end, and palm tree decorations along the dividing walls. 27 And here again, directly opposite the outer gateway, was another gateway that led into the inner courtyard. The distance between the two gateways was 175 feet.

Footnotes

  1. 39:11 Hebrew the sea.
  2. 39:25 Hebrew of Jacob.
  3. 39:26 A few Hebrew manuscripts read They will forget.
  4. 40:1 Hebrew At the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on April 28, 573 B.c.; also see note on 1:1.
  5. 40:5a Hebrew 6 long cubits [3.2 meters], each being a cubit [18 inches or 45 centimeters] and a handbreadth [3 inches or 8 centimeters] in length.
  6. 40:5b Hebrew 1 rod [3.2 meters]; also in 40:5c, 7.
  7. 40:6 As in Greek version, which reads 1 rod [3.2 meters] deep; Hebrew reads 1 rod deep, and 1 threshold, 1 rod deep.
  8. 40:7 Hebrew 5 cubits [2.7 meters]; also in 40:48.
  9. 40:8 As in many Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac version; other Hebrew manuscripts add which faced inward toward the Temple; it was 1 rod [10.5 feet or 3.2 meters] deep. 9 Then he measured the entry room of the gateway.
  10. 40:9a Hebrew 8 cubits [4.2 meters].
  11. 40:9b Hebrew 2 cubits [1.1 meters].
  12. 40:11a Hebrew 10 cubits [5.3 meters].
  13. 40:11b Hebrew 13 cubits [6.9 meters].
  14. 40:12a Hebrew 1 cubit [53 centimeters].
  15. 40:12b Hebrew 6 cubits [3.2 meters].
  16. 40:13 Hebrew 25 cubits [13.3 meters]; also in 40:21, 25, 29, 30, 33, 36.
  17. 40:14 Hebrew 60 cubits [31.8 meters]. Greek version reads 20 cubits [35 feet or 10.6 meters]. The meaning of the Hebrew in this verse is uncertain.
  18. 40:15 Hebrew 50 cubits [26.5 meters]; also in 40:21, 25, 29, 33, 36.
  19. 40:19 Hebrew 100 cubits [53 meters]; also in 40:23, 27, 47.
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