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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 43:12

See also Ezekiel 47:12. This is the law of the ordinance of the new sanctuary. After the consecration, God pronounces the “law” which is to govern the ordinances of the sanctuary (compare 1 Kings 8:0), first briefly repeating the general rule that the place must be kept holy to the Lord (compare Revelation 21:27), and then proceeding to specific ordinances commencing with the altar. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 43:12

Ezekiel 43:12. This is the law of the house This is the first comprehensive rule; or, this is the general law respecting this temple, and all that belongs to it. Whereas formerly only the chancel, or sanctuary, was most holy, now the whole mount of the house, the whole limit thereof round about, including all the courts and all the chambers, shall be so. This signified that, in gospel times, 1st, The church should have the privilege of the holy of holies, namely, that of a near access... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 43:1-12

God returns to the temple (43:1-12)Nineteen years earlier, Ezekiel had seen visions in which God left the temple, went out of Jerusalem to a nearby mountain, then destroyed the city and its inhabitants (see 8:1; 9:1-11; 10:19; 11:22-24). Now, with the new temple established, he sees God returning by the same route, coming to his temple and filling it with glory (43:1-5).God then told Ezekiel that this temple was to be his earthly dwelling place. It was holy, and his people were not to defile it... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 43:12

is . Supply "will be". Upon, &c. Compare Ezekiel 40:2 ; Ezekiel 42:20 . Psalms 93:5 .Joel 3:17 . Zechariah 14:20 , Zechariah 14:21 .Revelation 21:27 . most holy = the holy of holies, holy. See note on Exodus 3:5 . Behold . Figure of speech Asterismos ( App-6 ), for emphasis. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 43:12

Ezekiel 43:12. The whole limit—shall be most holy— "From the beginning of its declivity to the very top, in all the circumference of the temple, there shall no more be erected any building; no burial shall be performed there, nor any garden or other thing made, which is applicable to the common use of men. It shall be entirely holy, sacred, separate from all other employment, but that of the worship of the Lord." We find in Josephus, Antiq. lib. 15: cap. 14 that this was very ill observed in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 43:12

12. whole . . . most holy—This superlative, which had been used exclusively of the holy of holies (Exodus 26:34), was now to characterize the entire building. This all-pervading sanctity was to be "the law of the (whole) house," as distinguished from the Levitical law, which confined the peculiar sanctity to a single apartment of it. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 43:1-12

3. The return of God’s glory to the temple 43:1-12Having described the temple, God next revealed that He approved of it. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 43:12

The overriding lesson of the vision was that holiness was to permeate everything connected with the future of the mountain-top temple. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 43:1-27

§ 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 (572 b.c.). It is therefore thirteen years later than the previous section (Ezekiel 33-39), and, with the exception of Ezekiel 29:17-21, forms the latest part of the book. It is in the form of a vision, which is the counterpart of that in Ezekiel 8-11. There God forsook the old Temple which had... read more

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