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I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security. I will get rid of all the dangerous animals in the land, so that my sheep can live safely in the fields and sleep in the forests.

So then—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord , am the living God—death is your fate, and you cannot escape it. You are guilty of murder, and murder will follow you.

So then, as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord , am the living God, I will pay you back for your anger, your jealousy, and your hate toward my people. They will know that I am punishing you for what you did to them.

The Sovereign Lord says, "I will make you so desolate that the whole world will rejoice at your downfall,

So now listen to what I, the Sovereign Lord , say to you mountains and hills, to you brooks and valleys, to you places that were left in ruins, and to you deserted cities which were plundered and mocked by all the surrounding nations.

"So prophesy to the land of Israel; tell the mountains, hills, brooks, and valleys what I, the Sovereign Lord , am saying in jealous anger because of the way the nations have insulted and humiliated them.

I will save you from everything that defiles you. I will command the grain to be plentiful, so that you will not have any more famines.

I will increase the yield of your fruit trees and your fields, so that there will be no more famines to disgrace you among the nations.

So I prophesied as I had been told. While I was speaking, I heard a rattling noise, and the bones began to join together.

So I prophesied as I had been told. Breath entered the bodies, and they came to life and stood up. There were enough of them to form an army.

So prophesy to my people Israel and tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord , am going to open their graves. I am going to take them out and bring them back to the land of Israel.

Then hold the two sticks end to end in your hand so that they look like one stick.

They will live on the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They will live there forever, and so will their children and all their descendants. A king like my servant David will rule them forever.

All the fighting men of the lands of Gomer and Beth Togarmah in the north are with him, and so are men from many other nations.

After many years I will order him to invade a country where the people were brought back together from many nations and have lived without fear of war. He will invade the mountains of Israel, which were desolate and deserted so long, but where all the people now live in safety.

So the Sovereign Lord sent me to tell Gog what he was saying to him: "Now while my people Israel live in security, you will set out

After the seven months are over, men will be chosen to travel through the land in order to find and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, so that they can make the land clean.

As they go up and down the country, every time they find a human bone, they will put a marker beside it so that the gravediggers can come and bury it in the Valley of Gog's Army.

(There will be a town nearby named after the army.) And so the land will be made clean again."

These rooms were in three stories, with thirty rooms on each floor. The Temple's outer wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below, so that the rooms could rest on the wall without being anchored into it.