Cubit. they were each a cubit broad, but this greater means higher up. Some assert that the priests stood on this base to avoid treading on the altar, when they place the wood or victims. But it would be too low; and steps were made for that purpose. The altar was ten, or rather twelve cubits high, and as many broad. Solomon's was ten high and twenty broad. Herod's was a square of forty cubits, raised fifteen from the ground. (Calmet)
THE BOTTOM - The basement just described is now called “the bottom upon the ground.” The altar (independently of the bottom) was composed of two stages called “settles,” the base of the “upper settle”...
II. THE TEMPLE WORSHIP (43-44) CHAPTER 43 _ 1. The return of the glory of the Lord and filling the house (Ezekiel 43:1) _ 2. The address to the nation (Ezekiel 43:10) 3. The dimensions of the alta...
THE ALTAR. In a system of worship based upon sacrifice, the altar is of special importance: its dimensions (Ezekiel 43:13) and consecration (Ezekiel 43:18) are therefore elaborately described. Approac...
BOTTOM. hollow. SETTLE. ledge. The Hebrew word in this sense occurs only here, verses: Ezekiel 43:17; Ezekiel 43:20; Ezekiel 43:19. The altar will be thus narrowed at the top (twelve cubits square). T...
Two cubits up from the basement the fabric underwent the first contraction, being let in a cubit. Thus a ledge of a cubit broad was formed running all round the altar. A.V. appears to call this bench...
The altar of burnt-offering in the inner court The altar was a large structure, built of stone, and rose in terraces, contracting by means of two inlets towards the top. It consisted: (1) of a baseme...
CHAPTER NINETEEN NEW WORSHIP IN A NEW LAND 43:13-48:35 Ezekiel's lengthy symbolic portrayal of the Messianic age continues in Chapter s 43-48. The emphasis here is on the worship which will be such...
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereo...
43:14 ground (d-7) Or 'of earth,' implying that the whole interior of the 'base' was 'of earth.' settle, (e-28) The entire base of the upper altar (Heb. _ Harel_ or 'Mount of *God,' see ver. 15) was i...
§ 2. THE ORDINANCES OF THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 40-48) This concluding section of the book is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity, i.e. the fourteenth year after the fall of Jerusalem...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 43 THE *GLORY OF GOD RETURNS TO THE *TEMPLE – EZEKIEL 43:1-12 V1 Then the man l...
The *altar was tall, but it stood firm. The description is of three levels. Each level was narrower than the one below. But the *altar was so large that its top level was 21 feet (5.6 metres) across....
וּ מֵ חֵ֨יק הָ אָ֜רֶץ עַד ־הָ...
THE SANCTUARY THE fundamental idea of the theocracy as conceived by Ezekiel is the literal dwelling of Jehovah in the midst of His people. The Temple is in the first instance Jehovah's palace, where H...
The prophet's next vision was of Jehovah's return to the Temple. Again he beheld a vision and heard a voice. The visions which he had seen by the river Chebar appeared again. The same glory on which h...
Here we have a further relation of the house, and the ordinances of it; and all with an eye to Christ; to whom all his people are priests, and ministering servants to the Church of the living God. And...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 40, 41, 42, AND 43. The remaining part of the prophecy is the establishment of His sanctuary in the midst of His people. The reader will perceive that we find...
AND FROM THE BOTTOM UPON THE GROUND, EVEN TO THE LOWER SETTLE,.... From the basis or foundation of the altar, as it stood upon the ground, to the lower settle or "court" w, as it is called, where the...
And from the bottom [upon] the ground [even] to the lower settle [shall be] two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle [even] to the greater settle [shall be] four cubits, and t...
_These are the measures of the altar_ The Jews, after their return out of captivity, had an altar long before they had a temple, Ezra 3:3; but the altar here spoken of is an altar in the temple, the m...
DESCRIPTION AND DEDICATION OF THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING...
And from the bottom, literally, "the bosom," UPON THE GROUND EVEN TO THE LOWER SETTLE, the rest, or projection, running round about the altar, SHALL BE TWO CUBITS AND THE BREADTH ONE CUBIT; AND FROM T...
FROM THE BOTTOM; from the superficies of the first ledge, which was a cubit broad and a cubit high from the ground. TO THE LOWER SETTLE; to the top of that square settle which is called lower, because...
Ezekiel 43:14 base H2436 ground H776 lower H8481 ledge H5835 two H8147 cubits H520 width H7341 one H259 cubit...
THE ALTAR OF SACRIFICE IS TO BE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE AND THE EARTHLY TEMPLE YET TO BE BUILT AND IS TO BE COPIED FOR THAT PURPOSE (EZEKIEL 43:13). The heavenly visitant had now fi...
“And these are the measures of the altar by cubits, the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth. The bosom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border by its edge round about, a span. And thi...
CONTENTS: Vision of God's glory filling the temple. Place of the throne of the future kingdom. The altar and offerings. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: The glory of God shall retu...
Ezekiel 43:2. _Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east._ In Ezekiel 10:18, we read that the glory had departed from the ancient temple. Here it returns at the east gate, w...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 43:6 The emphasis now is on the activities that are to take place in the temple. The main altar and its round of sacrifices is the first element put in place (Ezekiel 43:13)
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 43:13 The altar’s design is described. The altar is square, like the temple itself, with a horn at each corner (e.g., Exodus 29:12;...
THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE. (chap. 43) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 43:2. “BEHOLD, THE GLORY OF GOD.” As the Shechinah-glory was the peculiar distinction of the old Temple, so it was to be in the ne...
EXPOSITION The consecration of the new temple by the entrance into it of the glory of the God of Israel (Ezekiel 43:1), and a description of the altar with its dedication to the solemn ritual for whic...
The remaining verses of this chapter (Ezekiel 43:13-27), which contain a description of the altar of burnt-offering, and of the necessary rites of consecration connected with it, seem at first view so...
Now in chapter 43: He brought him then to the gate that looks toward the east (Ezekiel 43:1): This is at the bottom of your diagram. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of...
From the bottom — From the first ledge, which was a cubit broad, and a cubit high from the ground. To the lower — To the top of that square settle, which is called lower, because another settle is rai...