If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house, its structure, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statues, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its whole design and all its statues and do them.Now we finally come to the purpose of the previous couple chapters. This was all a prelude to...shaming the people? Showing them what could be if they saw the possible future and were sorry they had sinned, and through that sin lost the original Temple?
Normally, God asks us to be sorry for our sin, and once we are He shows us what can be in the future. This time, it almost seems like near-bribery: if you're sorry, then you can get this. I may be misreading this verse, but somehow it feels backwards to me, or at the least potentially insincere.
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