Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.
the outward. So called in opposition to the temple itself, which was the inner sanctuary.
Ezekiel 40:6,17 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up …
Ezekiel 42:14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the …
2 Chronicles 4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, …
2 Chronicles 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, …
2 Chronicles 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts …
Acts 21:28-30 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all …
looketh
Ezekiel 43:1,4 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east…
Ezekiel 46:1 Thus said the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looks toward …
Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
for
Ezekiel 46:2,8 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, …
2 Chronicles 23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the …
2 Chronicles 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, …
the prince It is probable that the prince mentioned here and elsewhere, does not mean the Messiah, but the ruler of the jewish nation for the time being. For it is not only directed where he should sit in the temple, and eat his portion of the sacrifices, and when and how he should go out; but it is also ordered (ch.
Ezekiel 45:22 And on that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all …
Ezekiel 45:8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall …
Ezekiel 46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by …
Ezekiel 34:24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among …
Ezekiel 37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, …
Zechariah 6:12,13 And speak to him, saying, Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, …
to eat
Genesis 31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount, and called his brothers …
Exodus 24:9-11 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the …
Deuteronomy 12:7,17,18 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice …
Isaiah 23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it …
Isaiah 62:9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD…
1 Corinthians 10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices …
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, …
he shall enter
Ezekiel 40:9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts …
Ezekiel 46:2,8-1 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, …
Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
the way
Ezekiel 40:20,40 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he …
the glory
Ezekiel 3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory …
Ezekiel 10:4,18,19 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over …
Ezekiel 11:22,23 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels beside …
Ezekiel 43:4,5 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate …
Isaiah 6:3,4 And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD …
Haggai 2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall …
Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before …
and I fell
Ezekiel 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, …
Ezekiel 43:3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, …
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
Numbers 16:42-45 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses …
Psalm 89:7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to …
Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right …
And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
mark well [heb] set thine heart
Ezekiel 40:4 And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with your eyes, and hear …
Exodus 9:21 And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and …
Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said to them, Set your hearts to all the words which I testify …
1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise …
2 Chronicles 11:16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their …
Proverbs 24:32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked on it, and received instruction.
Daniel 10:12 Then said he to me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that …
concerning
Ezekiel 43:10,11 You son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they …
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not …
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
and mark well
Psalm 119:4 You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.
the entering
Psalm 96:8,9 Give to the LORD the glory due to his name: bring an offering, and …
Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And …
And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
ye have brought
Ezekiel 44:9 Thus said the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor …
Ezekiel 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty…
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: …
Ezekiel 43:7,8 And he said to me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place …
Leviticus 22:25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your …
Acts 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all …
strangers [heb] children of a stranger
Isaiah 56:6,7 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, …
uncircumcised in heart. The introduction of uncircumcised persons to eat of the peace offerings and oblations, would have been a gross violation of the Mosaic law; but, as there was no law to exclude `the uncircumcised of heart,' who were circumcised and ritually clean, this seems to point out a new and different constitution.
Leviticus 26:41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them …
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff necked.
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of …
Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of …
Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, …
Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …
Romans 2:28,29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, …
Colossians 2:11-13 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands…
when
Leviticus 3:16 And the priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the …
Leviticus 21:6,8,17,21 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their …
Leviticus 22:25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall you offer the bread of your …
Malachi 1:7,12-14 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we …
John 6:52-58 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this …
the fat
Leviticus 3:13-17 And he shall lay his hand on the head of it, and kill it before the …
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to …
broken
Genesis 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not …
Leviticus 26:15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, …
Deuteronomy 31:16,20 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …
Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because …
Jeremiah 11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which …
Jeremiah 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …
Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the …
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
ye have not
Leviticus 22:2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from …
Numbers 18:3-5 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle…
Acts 7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
1 Timothy 6:13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who vivifies all things, and …
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who …
charge. or, ward, or ordinance, and so
Ezekiel 44:14,16 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all …
Ezekiel 40:45,46 And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, …
1 Chronicles 23:22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brothers …
Ezra 8:24-30 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, …
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 44:7 In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised …
Psalm 50:16 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, …
Psalm 93:5 Your testimonies are very sure: holiness becomes your house, O LORD, for ever.
Joel 3:17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my …
Zechariah 14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the …
Mark 16:16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes …
John 3:3-5 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except …
Titus 1:5-9 For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order …
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
the Levites
Ezekiel 44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge …
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: …
Ezekiel 48:11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; …
2 Kings 23:8,9 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled …
2 Chronicles 29:4,5 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them …
Nehemiah 9:34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, …
Jeremiah 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I …
Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have …
1 Timothy 5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's …
bear
Genesis 4:13 And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Leviticus 19:8 Therefore every one that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because …
Numbers 5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall …
Psalm 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: as an heavy burden they …
Isaiah 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: …
Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
they shall be As few, if any, of those who, before the captivity, had been guilty in these respects, lived to witness the restoration of the temple service; and as it does not appear that their descendants were thus degraded for the idolatry of their ancestors; it is probable that a thorough reformation of the whole church, or the prevalence of pure religion among the converted Jews, is here predicted.
having charge
Ezekiel 44:14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all …
Ezekiel 40:45 And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, …
1 Chronicles 26:1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah …
shall slay
2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the …
2 Chronicles 30:17 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified…
2 Chronicles 35:10,11 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, …
and they
Numbers 16:9 Seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated …
Numbers 18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among …
Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
they ministered
1 Samuel 2:29,30 Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded …
2 Kings 16:10-16 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, …
Isaiah 9:16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are …
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected …
Hosea 5:1 Hear you this, O priests; and listen, you house of Israel; and give …
Malachi 2:8,9 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble …
caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity. [heb] were for a stumbling block of iniquity unto
Ezekiel 14:3,4 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and …
therefore
Ezekiel 20:6,15,23,28 In the day that I lifted up my hand to them, to bring them forth …
Deuteronomy 32:40-42 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever…
Psalm 106:26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in …
Amos 8:7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never …
Revelation 10:5,6 And the angel which I saw stand on the sea and on the earth lifted …
and they shall
Ezekiel 44:10,13 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went …
And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
the sons
Ezekiel 40:46 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, …
Ezekiel 43:19 And you shall give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed …
Ezekiel 48:11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; …
1 Samuel 2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according …
1 Kings 2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the …
1 Timothy 3:3-10 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, …
2 Timothy 2:2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the …
Revelation 2:1,8,12,18 To the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things said he …
Revelation 3:1,7,14,22 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things said …
when
Ezekiel 44:10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went …
they shall stand
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark …
Zechariah 3:1-7 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel …
the fat
Ezekiel 44:7 In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised …
Leviticus 3:16,17 And the priest shall burn them on the altar: it is the food of the …
the blood
Leviticus 17:5,6 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, …
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
They shall enter
Revelation 1:6 And has made us kings and priests to God and his Father; to him be …
to my table To place the shew-bread there. It is observable, that the table in the sanctuary is mentioned rather than the altar of incense; perhaps intimating the change in the external institutions of Divine worship which should take place before the accomplishment of the prophecy. It is not easy to determine, whether any external regulations, with respect to Divine ordinances, answerable to these predictions, will be made among the converted Jews, when reinstated in their own land, or not.
Ezekiel 41:22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two …
Malachi 1:7,12 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we …
keep
Numbers 18:7,8 Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office …
Deuteronomy 33:8-10 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your …
And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
they shall put
Ezekiel 42:13,14 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which …
Leviticus 6:10,11 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches …
sanctify
Ezekiel 46:20 Then said he to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil …
Exodus 29:37 Seven days you shall make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify …
Exodus 30:29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatever …
Leviticus 6:27 Whatever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there …
Matthew 23:17-19 You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple …
1 Corinthians 3:5,6 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, …
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Leviticus 10:9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, …
Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither …
1 Timothy 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given …
1 Timothy 5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake …
Titus 1:7,8 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, …
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
Neither. This was prohibited only to the high priest under the law; but it is here extended to all the priests, perhaps to intimate the superior sanctity of the times to which it refers.
a widow
Leviticus 21:7,13,14 They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall …
1 Timothy 3:2,4,5,11 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, …
Titus 1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children …
put away [heb] thrust forth
Deuteronomy 24:1-4 When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass …
that had a priest before [heb] from a priest
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: …
Leviticus 10:10,11 And that you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between …
Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they …
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected …
Micah 3:9-11 Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes …
Zephaniah 3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have …
Haggai 2:11-13 Thus said the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying…
Malachi 2:6-9 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in …
2 Timothy 2:24,25 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle to all …
Titus 1:9-11 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may …
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
in the controversy This seems to intimate, that controversies, in the period predicted, will be generally decided by arbitration, according to the law of God; and not by litigations before human tribunals, according to the laws of man.
Deuteronomy 17:8-13 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood …
1 Chronicles 23:4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of …
2 Chronicles 19:8-10 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of …
Ezra 2:63 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most …
they shall keep
1 Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself …
in all
Leviticus 23:1-44 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
Numbers 29:1-40 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall …
Nehemiah 8:1-18 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the …
and they shall hallow
Isaiah 58:13,14 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure …
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
Leviticus 21:1-6 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, …
Leviticus 22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or has a running …
Matthew 8:21,22 And another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to …
Luke 9:59,60 And he said to another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first …
2 Corinthians 5:16 Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have …
1 Thessalonians 4:13-15 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning them …
And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.
And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
eat
Leviticus 2:3,10 And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': …
Leviticus 6:14-18,26,29 And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall …
Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten …
Numbers 18:9-11 This shall be your of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: …
1 Corinthians 9:13,14 Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of …
Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
dedicated. or, devoted
Leviticus 27:21,28 But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy to …
compared with
Numbers 18:14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be yours.
And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
first. or, chief
all the first-fruits
Exodus 13:2,12 Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the …
Exodus 22:29 You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits, and of …
Exodus 23:19 The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring into the …
Numbers 3:13 Because all the firstborn are mine…
Numbers 15:19-21 Then it shall be, that, when you eat of the bread of the land, you …
Numbers 18:12-18,27-30 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the …
Deuteronomy 18:4 The first fruit also of your corn, of your wine, and of your oil, …
2 Chronicles 31:4-6,10 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelled in Jerusalem to give …
Nehemiah 10:35-37 And to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits …
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should …
that he may
Deuteronomy 26:10-15 And now, behold, I have brought the first fruits of the land, which …
Proverbs 3:9,10 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of …
Malachi 3:10,11 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat …
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
