391 "Son of man, prophesy against Gog. Say, 'A Message of God, the Master: I'm against you, Gog, head of Meshech and Tubal. 2 I'm going to turn you around and drag you out, drag you out of the far north and down on the mountains of Israel. 3 Then I'll knock your bow out of your left hand and your arrows from your right hand. 4 On the mountains of Israel you'll be slaughtered, you and all your troops and the people with you. I'll serve you up as a meal to carrion birds and scavenging animals. 5 You'll be killed in the open field. I've given my word. Decree of God, the Master.' 6 "I'll set fire to Magog and the far-off islands, where people are so seemingly secure. And they'll realize that I am God. 7 "I'll reveal my holy name among my people Israel. Never again will I let my holy name be dragged in the mud. Then the nations will realize that I, God, am The Holy in Israel.
8 "It's coming! Yes, it will happen! This is the day I've been telling you about. 9 "People will come out of the cities of Israel and make a huge bonfire of the weapons of war, piling on shields large and small, bows and arrows, clubs and spears, a fire they'll keep going for seven years. 10 They won't need to go into the woods to get fuel for the fire. There'll be plenty of weapons to keep it going. They'll strip those who stripped them. They'll rob those who robbed them. Decree of God, the Master. 11 "At that time I'll set aside a burial ground for Gog in Israel at Traveler's Rest, just east of the sea. It will obstruct the route of travelers, blocking their way, the mass grave of Gog and his mob of an army. They'll call the place Gog's Mob. 12 "Israel will bury the corpses in order to clean up the land. It will take them seven months. 13 All the people will turn out to help with the burials. It will be a big day for the people when it's all done and I'm given my due. 14 Men will be hired full-time for the cleanup burial operation and will go through the country looking for defiling, decomposing corpses. At the end of seven months, there'll be an all-out final search. 15 Anyone who sees a bone will mark the place with a stick so the buriers can get it and bury it in the mass burial site, Gog's Mob. 16 (A town nearby is called Mobville, or Hamonah.) That's how they'll clean up the land. 17 "Son of man, God, the Master, says: Call the birds! Call the wild animals! Call out, 'Gather and come, gather around my sacrificial meal that I'm preparing for you on the mountains of Israel. You'll eat meat and drink blood. 18 You'll eat off the bodies of great heroes and drink the blood of famous princes as if they were so many rams and lambs, goats and bulls, the choicest grain-fed animals of Bashan. 19 At the sacrificial meal I'm fixing for you, you'll eat fat till you're stuffed and drink blood till you're drunk. 20 At the table I set for you, you'll stuff yourselves with horses and riders, heroes and fighters of every kind.' Decree of God, the Master. 21 "I'll put my glory on display among the nations and they'll all see the judgment I execute, see me at work handing out judgment. 22 From that day on, Israel will realize that I am their God.
23 And the nations will get the message that it was because of their sins that Israel went into exile. They were disloyal to me and I turned away from them. I turned them over to their enemies and they were all killed. 24 I treated them as their polluted and sin-sated lives deserved. I turned away from them, refused to look at them. 25 "But now I will return Jacob back from exile, I'll be compassionate with all the people of Israel, and I'll be zealous for my holy name. 26 Eventually the memory will fade, the memory of their shame over their betrayals of me when they lived securely in their own land, safe and unafraid. 27 Once I've brought them back from foreign parts, gathered them in from enemy territories, I'll use them to demonstrate my holiness with all the nations watching. 28 Then they'll realize for sure that I am their God, for even though I sent them off into exile, I will gather them back to their own land, leaving not one soul behind. 29 After I've poured my Spirit on Israel, filled them with my life, I'll no longer turn away. I'll look them full in the face. Decree of God, the Master."
401 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year on the tenth of the month - it was the fourteenth year after the city fell - God touched me and brought me here. 2 He brought me in divine vision to the land of Israel and set me down on a high mountain. To the south there were buildings that looked like a city. 3 He took me there and I met a man deeply tanned, like bronze. He stood at the entrance holding a linen cord and a measuring stick. 4 The man said to me, "Son of man, look and listen carefully. Pay close attention to everything I'm going to show you. That's why you've been brought here. And then tell Israel everything you see."
5 First I saw a wall around the outside of the Temple complex. The measuring stick in the man's hand was about ten feet long. He measured the thickness of the wall: about ten feet. The height was also about ten feet. 6 He went into the gate complex that faced the east and went up the seven steps. 7 He measured the depth of the outside threshold of the gate complex: ten feet. There were alcoves flanking the gate corridor, each ten feet square, each separated by a wall seven and a half feet thick. The inside threshold of the gate complex that led to the porch facing into the Temple courtyard was ten feet deep. 8 He measured the inside porch of the gate complex: 9 twelve feet deep, flanked by pillars three feet thick. The porch opened onto the Temple courtyard. 10 Inside this east gate complex were three alcoves on each side. Each room was the same size and the separating walls were identical. 11 He measured the outside entrance to the gate complex: fifteen feet wide and nineteen and a half feet deep. 12 In front of each alcove was a low wall eighteen inches high. The alcoves were ten feet square. 13 He measured the width of the gate complex from the outside edge of the alcove roof on one side to the outside edge of the alcove roof on the other: thirty-seven and a half feet from one top edge to the other. 14 He measured the inside walls of the gate complex: ninety feet to the porch leading into the courtyard. 15 The distance from the entrance of the gate complex to the far end of the porch was seventy-five feet. 16 The alcoves and their connecting walls inside the gate complex were topped by narrow windows all the way around. The porch also. All the windows faced inward. The doorjambs between the alcoves were decorated with palm trees. 17 The man then led me to the outside courtyard and all its rooms. A paved walkway had been built connecting the courtyard gates. Thirty rooms lined the courtyard. 18 The walkway was the same length as the gateways. It flanked them and ran their entire length. This was the walkway for the outside courtyard. 19 He measured the distance from the front of the entrance gateway across to the entrance of the inner court: one hundred fifty feet. 20 Here was another gate complex facing north, exiting the outside courtyard. He measured its length and width. 21 It had three alcoves on each side. Its gateposts and porch were the same as in the first gate: eighty-seven and a half feet by forty-three and three-quarters feet. 22 The windows and palm trees were identical to the east gateway. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch faced inward. 23 Opposite this gate complex was a gate complex to the inside courtyard, on the north as on the east. The distance between the two was one hundred seventy-five feet. 24 Then he took me to the south side, to the south gate complex. He measured its gateposts and its porch. It was the same size as the others. 25 The porch with its windows was the same size as those previously mentioned. 26 It also had seven steps up to it. Its porch opened onto the outside courtyard, with palm trees decorating its gateposts on both sides.
27 Opposite to it, the gate complex for the inner court faced south. He measured the distance across the courtyard from gate to gate: one hundred seventy-five feet. 28 He led me into the inside courtyard through the south gate complex. He measured it and found it the same as the outside ones. 29 Its alcoves, connecting walls, and vestibule were the same. The gate complex and porch, windowed all around, measured eighty-seven and a half by forty-three and three-quarters feet. 30 The vestibule of each of the gate complexes leading to the inside courtyard was forty-three and three-quarters by eight and three-quarters feet. 31 Each vestibule faced the outside courtyard. Palm trees were carved on its doorposts. Eight steps led up to it. 32 He then took me to the inside courtyard on the east and measured the gate complex. It was identical to the others - 33 alcoves, connecting walls, and vestibule all the same. The gate complex and vestibule had windows all around. It measured eighty-seven and a half by forty-three and three-quarters feet. 34 Its porch faced the outside courtyard. There were palm trees on the doorposts on both sides. And it had eight steps. 35 He brought me to the gate complex to the north and measured it: same measurements. 36 The alcoves, connecting walls, and vestibule with its windows: eighty-seven and a half by forty-three and three-quarters feet. 37 Its porch faced the outside courtyard. There were palm trees on its doorposts on both sides. And it had eight steps. 38 There was a room with a door at the vestibule of the gate complex where the burnt offerings were cleaned.
39 Two tables were placed within the vestibule, one on either side, on which the animals for burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings were slaughtered. 40 Two tables were also placed against both outside walls of the vestibule 41 - four tables inside and four tables outside, eight tables in all for slaughtering the sacrificial animals. 42 The four tables used for the burnt offerings were thirty-one and a half inches square and twenty-one inches high. The tools for slaughtering the sacrificial animals and other sacrifices were kept there. 43 Meat hooks, three inches long, were fastened to the walls. The tables were for the sacrificial animals. 44 Right where the inside gate complex opened onto the inside courtyard there were two rooms, one at the north gate facing south and the one at the south gate facing north. 45 The man told me, "The room facing south is for the priests who are in charge of the Temple. 46 And the room facing north is for the priests who are in charge of the altar. These priests are the sons of Zadok, the only sons of Levi permitted to come near to God to serve him." 47 He measured the inside courtyard: a hundred seventy-five feet square. The altar was in front of the Temple. 48 He led me to the porch of the Temple and measured the gateposts of the porch: eight and three-quarters feet high on both sides. 49 The entrance to the gate complex was twenty-one feet wide and its connecting walls were four and a half feet thick. The vestibule itself was thirty-five feet wide and twenty-one feet deep. Ten steps led up to the porch. Columns flanked the gateposts.
411 He brought me into the Temple itself and measured the doorposts on each side. Each was ten and a half feet thick. 2 The entrance was seventeen and a half feet wide. The walls on each side were eight and three-quarters feet thick. He also measured the Temple Sanctuary: seventy feet by thirty-five feet. 3 He went further in and measured the doorposts at the entrance: Each was three and a half feet thick. The entrance itself was ten and a half feet wide, and the entrance walls were twelve and a quarter feet thick. 4 He measured the inside Sanctuary, thirty-five feet square, set at the end of the main Sanctuary. He told me, "This is The Holy of Holies." 5 He measured the wall of the Temple. It was ten and a half feet thick. The side rooms around the Temple were seven feet wide. 6 There were three floors of these side rooms, thirty rooms on each of the three floors. There were supporting beams around the Temple wall to hold up the side rooms, but they were freestanding, not attached to the wall itself. 7 The side rooms around the Temple became wider from first floor to second floor to third floor. A staircase went from the bottom floor, through the middle, and then to the top floor. 8 I observed that the Temple had a ten-and-a-half-foot-thick raised base around it, which provided a foundation for the side rooms. 9 The outside walls of the side rooms were eight and three-quarters feet thick. The open area between the side rooms of the Temple 10 and the priests' rooms was a thirty-five-foot-wide strip all around the Temple. 11 There were two entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one placed on the north side, the other on the south. There were eight and three-quarters feet of open space all around.
12 The house that faced the Temple courtyard to the west was one hundred twenty-two and a half feet wide, with eight-and-three-quarters-foot-thick walls. The length of the wall and building was one hundred fifty-seven and a half feet. 13 He measured the Temple: one hundred seventy-five feet long. The Temple courtyard and the house, including its walls, measured a hundred seventy-five feet. 14 The breadth of the front of the Temple and the open area to the east was a hundred seventy-five feet. 15 He measured the length of the house facing the courtyard at the back of the Temple, including the shelters on each side: one hundred seventy-five feet. The main Sanctuary, the inner Sanctuary, and the vestibule facing the courtyard 16 were paneled with wood, and had window frames and door frames in all three sections. From floor to windows the walls were paneled. 17 Above the outside entrance to the inner Sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner Sanctuary and the main Sanctuary, 18 angel-cherubim and palm trees were carved in alternating sequence. 19 a human face toward the palm tree on the right and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the left. They were carved around the entire Temple. 20 The cherubimÃpalm tree motif was carved from floor to door height on the wall of the main Sanctuary. 21 The main Sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe. In front of the Holy Place was something that looked like 22 an altar of wood, five and a quarter feet high and three and a half feet square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. The man said to me, "This is the table that stands before God." 23 Both the main Sanctuary and the Holy Place had double doors. 24 Each door had two leaves: two hinged leaves for each door, one set swinging inward and the other set outward. 25 The doors of the main Sanctuary were carved with angel-cherubim and palm trees. There was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside. 26 There were narrow windows alternating with carved palm trees on both sides of the porch.
