Chapter 2

I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.

lifted

1.18

a man

1.16 Ezekiel 40.3,5 47.4 Revelation 11.1 21.15

Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

Whither

5.10 John 16.5

To

Jeremiah 31.39 Ezekiel 45.6 48.15-17,30-35 Revelation 11.1 21.15-17

And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

the angel

1.9,13,14,19 4.1,5 5.5

and another

1.8,10,11

And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:

young

Jeremiah 1.6 Daniel 1.17 1 Timothy 4.12

Jerusalem

We learn from Josephus, that Jerusalem actually overflowed with inhabitants, and gradually extended itself beyond its walls, and that Herod Agrippa fortified the new part, called Bezetha.

1.17 8.4,5 12.6 14.10,11 Isaiah 33.20 44.26 Jeremiah 30.18,19 31.24,27 Jeremiah 31.38-40 33.10-13 Ezekiel 36.10,11 Micah 7.11

For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

a wall

9.8 Psalms 46.7-11 48.3,12 Isaiah 4.5 12.6 26.1,2 33.21 60.18,19

the glory

Psalms 3.3 Isaiah 60.19 Haggai 2.7-9 Luke 2.32 Revelation 21.10,11,23 22.3-5

Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

ho

Ruth 4.1 Isaiah 55.1

and flee

7 Genesis 19.17 Isaiah 48.20 52.11,12 Jeremiah 1.14 3.18 31.8 50.8 51.6 Jeremiah 51.45,50 2 Corinthians 6.16,17 Revelation 18.4

spread

Deuteronomy 28.64 Jeremiah 15.4 31.10 Ezekiel 5.12 11.16 12.14,15 17.21 Amos 9.9

Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

Deliver

Genesis 19.17 Numbers 16.26,34 Isaiah 48.20 52.11 Jeremiah 50.8 51.6,45 Acts 2.40 Revelation 18.4

that

Isaiah 52.2 Micah 4.10

daughter

The Babylonians were vanquished by the Persians, formerly their servants, under Darius Hystaspes, who took Babylon after a siege of twelve months, demolished its walls, and put 300,000 of the inhabitants to death.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

After

4,5 1.15,16 Isaiah 60.7-14

sent

9,11 Isaiah 48.15,16 Malachi 3.1 John 14.23,24,26 15.21-23 17.18 1 John 4.9,10,14

the nations

2 Kings 24.2 Jeremiah 50.17,18 51.34,35 Ezekiel 25.6,7,12,15 26.2 35.5 Joel 3.2-8 Amos 1.3-5,9,11,13 Obadiah 1.10-16 Micah 4.11 5.6 7.10 Habakkuk 2.8,17 Zephaniah 2.8

for

Genesis 20.6 Psalms 105.13-15 Acts 9.4 2 Thessalonians 1.6

the apple

Deuteronomy 32.10 Psalms 17.8 Matthew 25.40,45

For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.

I will

Isaiah 10.32 11.15 13.2 19.16

and they

Isaiah 14.2 33.1,23 Jeremiah 27.7 Ezekiel 39.10 Habakkuk 2.8,17 Zephaniah 2.9

and ye

8 4.9 6.15 Jeremiah 28.9 John 13.19 16.4

Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.

and rejoice

9.9 Psalms 47.1-9 98.1-3 Isaiah 12.6 35.10 40.9 42.10 51.11 52.9,10 Isaiah 54.1 61.10 65.18,19 66.14 Jeremiah 30.19 31.12 33.11 Zephaniah 3.14,15 Philippians 4.4

lo

14.5 Psalms 40.7 Isaiah 40.9-11 Malachi 3.1

and I

8.3 Leviticus 26.12 Psalms 68.18 Ezekiel 37.27 Zephaniah 3.17 Matthew 28.20 John 1.14 John 14.23 2 Corinthians 6.15,16 Revelation 2.1 21.3

And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

many

8.20-23 Psalms 22.27-30 68.29-31 72.8-11,17 Isaiah 2.2-5 11.9,10 Isaiah 19.24,25 42.1-4 45.14 49.6,7,22,23 52.10 60.3-7 66.19 Jeremiah 16.19 Malachi 1.11 Luke 2.32 Acts 28.28 1 Peter 2.9,10 Revelation 11.15

in that day

3.10

my people

Exodus 12.49

thou

9 Ezekiel 33.33 John 17.21,23,25

And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

inherit

Exodus 19.5,6 Deuteronomy 32.9 Psalms 82.8 135.4 Jeremiah 10.16 51.19

and shall

1.17 Isaiah 41.9

Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

Be

Psalms 46.10 Habakkuk 2.20 Zephaniah 1.7 Romans 3.19 9.20

for

Psalms 68.5 78.65 Isaiah 26.20,21 42.13-15 51.9 57.5 Zephaniah 3.8

his holy habitation

Heb. the habitation of his holiness.

Deuteronomy 26.15 2 Chronicles 30.27 *marg:; Psalms 11.4 68.5 Isaiah 57.15 63.15 Jeremiah 25.30