3)
AS GOD, SO WORSHIPPER (Micah iv. 5, R.V.)
'A DEW FROM THE LORD' (Micah v. 7)
GOD'S REQUIREMENTS AND GOD'S GIFT (Micah vi. 8)

HABAKKUK

THE IDEAL DEVOUT LIFE (Habakkuk iii. 19)

ZEPHANIAH

ZION'S JOY AND GOD'S (Zephaniah iii. 14, 17)

HAGGAI

VAIN TOIL (Haggai i. 6)
BRAVE ENCOURAGEMENTS (Haggai ii. 1-9)

ZECHARIAH

DYING MEN AND THE UNDYING WORD (Zechariah i. 5, 6)
THE CITY WITHOUT WALLS (Zechariah ii. 4, 5)
A VISION OF JUDGMENT AND CLEANSING (Zechariah iii. 1-10)
THE RIGHT OF ENTRY (Zechariah iii. 7)
THE SOURCE OF POWER (Zechariah iv. 1-10)
THE FOUNDER AND FINISHER OF THE TEMPLE (Zechariah iv. 9)
THE PRIEST OF THE WORLD AND KING OF MEN (Zechariah vi. 13)

MALACHI

A DIALOGUE WITH GOD (Malachi i. 6, 7)
BLEMISHED OFFERINGS (Malachi i. 8)
A DIALOGUE WITH GOD (Malachi ii. 12, 14, R.V.)
THE LAST WORD OF PROPHECY (Malachi iii. 1-12)
THE UNCHANGING LORD (Malachi iii. 6)
A DIALOGUE WITH GOD (Malachi iii. 7, R.V.)
'STOUT WORDS,' AND THEIR CONFUTATION
(Malachi iii. 13-18; iv. 1-6)
THE LAST WORDS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
(Malachi iv. 6; Revelation xxii. 21)

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THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL

CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY

'Then said He unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients
of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of
his imagery!'--EZEKIEL viii. 12.

This is part of a vision which came to the prophet in his captivity. He
is carried away in imagination from his home amongst the exiles in the
East to the Temple of Jerusalem. There he sees in one dreadful series
representations of all the forms of idolatry to which the handful that
were left in the land were cleaving. There meets him on the threshold of
the court 'the image of jealousy,' the generalised expression for the
aggregate of idolatries which had stirred the anger of the divine
husband of the nation. Then he sees within the Temple three groups
representing the idolatries of three different lands. First, those with
whom my text is concerned, who, in some underground room, vaulted and
windowless, were bowing down before painted animal forms upon the walls.
Probably they were the representatives of Egyptian worship, for the
description of their temple might have been taken out of any book of
travels in Egyp