Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 43:17
Stairs — Or steps, for such they needed, (probably each stair about one fourth of a cubit,) to carry them, up to the first and second settles.
Stairs — Or steps, for such they needed, (probably each stair about one fourth of a cubit,) to carry them, up to the first and second settles.
Verse Ezekiel 43:17. _AND THE SETTLE_] The _ledge_ on which the priests walked round the altar, see Ezekiel 43:14. By these settles or ledges the altar was narrowed towards the top. "The ascent shall...
THE SETTLE - The “lower settle” (L), projecting beyond the “upper settle” (M) one cubit on every side. HIS STAIRS - Jewish tradition says that the approach to the altar was by an inclined plane, beca...
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...
STAIRS. Steps were forbidden in Ex. Ezekiel 20:26, but may be permitted here....
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...
The "settle" referred to here is the higher or greater one (Ezekiel 43:14). Its area was a square of 14 cubits. The verse appears to say that this uppermost ledge had a border and an "enclosure" or se...
AND HIS STAIRS—_ And its ascent. Ezekiel 43:21. He shall burn it_] It shall be burnt. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The temple was great and glorious, but infinitely greater the glory of the divine Inhabitant, w...
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...
§ 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...
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....
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...
וְ הָ עֲזָרָ֞ה אַרְבַּ֧ע עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אֹ֗רֶךְ בּ
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...
_Crown, which was usually placed round altars and tables, that nothing might fall down. --- Bottom of the altar, or base, mentioned [in] ver. 13. --- Steps, boarded one each side, Exodus xx. 26._...
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 THE SETTLE SHALL BE FOURTEEN CUBITS LONG AND FOURTEEN BROAD IN THE FOUR SQUARES THEREOF,.... Here Kimchi confesses his ignorance. Jarchi interprets it, the top of the altar, with the place of the...
And the settle [shall be] fourteen [cubits] long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it [shall be] half a cubit; and the bottom thereof [shall be] a cubit about; and h...
_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...
And the settle, the lower ledge, SHALL BE FOURTEEN CUBITS LONG AND FOURTEEN BROAD IN THE FOUR SQUARES THEREOF, the extra cubits being added on account of the depth of the panel; AND THE BORDER ABOUT I...
DESCRIPTION AND DEDICATION OF THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING...
THE SETTLE; so called now, since the uppermost carrieth the name of altar, proper to itself. FOURTEEN CUBITS, as said in the former verse: nor can it be otherwise, since it is one cubit on each side b...
Ezekiel 43:17 ledge H5835 fourteen H702 H6240 long H753 fourteen H702 H6240 wide H7341 four H702 sides...
“And the settle shall be fourteen long by fourteen wide in its four sides. And the border about it shall be half a cubit, and its bosom shall be a cubit about, and its steps shall look towards the eas...
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...
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...
1 Kings 18:32; 1 Kings 6:8; Exodus 20:26; Exodus 25:25; Exodus 30:3;...