Lexicon :: Strong's H5927 - ʿālâ

Seventy elders from the house of Israel were standing before them, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a firepan in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising up.

Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherub where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man clothed in linen and carrying writing equipment.

The glory of the LORD rose up from within the city and stopped on the mountain east of the city.[fn]

“You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the LORD.

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and have put their sinful stumbling blocks in front of themselves. Should I actually let them inquire of me?

“For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me, I, the LORD, will answer him myself.

“They will bring a mob against you to stone you and to cut you to pieces with their swords.

“She brought up one of her cubs,

and he became a young lion.

After he learned to tear prey,

he devoured people.

“ ‘When you say, “Let’s be like the nations, like the clans of other countries, serving wood and stone,” what you have in mind will never happen.

“This is what the Lord GOD says: Summon[fn] an assembly against them and consign them to terror and plunder.

“In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance,

I have put her blood on the bare rock,

so that it would not be covered.

“therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against you, Tyre! I will raise up many nations against you, just as the sea raises its waves.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

“Because of you, they raise their voices

and cry out bitterly.

They throw dust on their heads;

they roll in ashes.

I will put hooks in your jaws

and make the fish of your streams

cling to your scales.

I will haul you up

from the middle of your Nile,

and all the fish of your streams

will cling to your scales.

“ ‘This is what the Lord GOD says:

I will spread my net over you

with an assembly of many peoples,

and they[fn] will haul you up in my net.

therefore, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,

“I will put tendons on you, make flesh grow on you, and cover you with skin. I will put breath in you so that you come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”

As I looked, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

“Therefore, prophesy and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them, my people, and lead you into the land of Israel.

“You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.

“You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against my land so that the nations may know me, when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.

“Now on that day, the day when Gog comes against the land of Israel ​— ​this is the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​my wrath will flare up.[fn]

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

Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10 ¹/₂ feet deep ​— ​one threshold was 10 ¹/₂ feet deep.

Its windows, portico, and palm trees had the same measurements as those of the gate that faced east. Seven steps led up to the gate, and its portico was ahead of them.

Outside, as one approaches the entrance of the north gate, there were two tables on one side and two more tables on the other side of the gate’s portico.

The portico was 35 feet[fn] across and 21[fn] feet[fn] deep, and 10 steps led[fn] up to it. There were pillars by the jambs, one on each side.

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive story, for the structure surrounding the temple went up by stages. This was the reason for the temple’s broadness as it rose. And so, one would go up from the lowest story to the highest by means of the middle one.[fn]

Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it:

“You are to present them before the LORD; the priests will throw salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

“When they enter the gates of the inner court they are to wear linen garments; they must not have on them anything made of wool when they minister at the gates of the inner court and within it.

“All kinds of trees providing food will grow along both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fresh fruit because the water comes from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be used for eating and their leaves for healing.”