Ezekiel 43:25-26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 43:13-27

This relates to the altar in this mystical temple, and that is mystical too; for Christ is our altar. The Jews, after their return out of captivity, had an altar long before they had a temple, Ezra 3:3. But this was an altar in the temple. Now here we have, I. The measures of the altar, Ezek. 43:13. It was six yards square at the top and seven yards square at the bottom; it was four yards and a half high; it had a lower bench or shelf, here called a settle, a yard from the ground, on which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 43:25

Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering ,.... By this it appears that the altar was seven days a consecrating and cleansing; and that on each day a goat was prepared and offered, typical of Christ, as before observed. Here Kimchi owns that this was not according to the order of Moses, or was done by those that came out of the captivity of Babylon; and is obliged to confess that there will be a change or an innovation in the order of sacrifices in time to come, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 43:26

Seven days shall they purge the altar, and purify it ,.... Which denotes the perfect purity and sanctification of it; which how to be applied to Christ; see Gill on Ezekiel 43:20 ; and they shall consecrate themselves : the priests shall consecrate themselves, or devote themselves to the service of the altar; so Gospel ministers to the ministry of a crucified Christ: or they themselves should consecrate the altar by the above rites: or rather it may be literally rendered, and they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 43:25

Seven days shalt thou prepare - These are, in general, ordinances of the Law; and may be seen by consulting the parallel passages. All these directions are given that they might follow them, when they should be put in possession of their own land. For in several cases the prophet enters into particulars, as if he had supposed that the book of the law had perished. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:1-27

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:13-27

The temple-altar described ( Ezekiel 43:13-17 ), and the ritual for its consecration explained ( Ezekiel 43:18-27 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:13-27

Purification and preparation. Almost all the regulations pertaining to the sacrifices under the old economy bore upon the supreme question of sanctity. God would impress upon his people, by every means and in every way, that the Holy One of Israel must be approached by those only who were pure and holy; that if they would "ascend unto the hill of the Lord" they must come "with clean hands and a pure heart." Hence everything and every one had to be carefully purified or consecrated in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:25

Seven days . Hitzig reckons these as additional to the first ( Ezekiel 43:19 ) and second ( Ezekiel 43:22 ) days; Kliefoth begins them with the second; Keil, Schroder, Currey, and the majority of expositors take them as inclusive of the first and second. Hitzig's proposal may be set aside, since it cannot be maintained without erasing "thou shalt make atonement for it" in Ezekiel 43:20 , and the first half of the present verse. In favor of Kliefoth's view may be urged that the first... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 43:26

They shall purge the altar . Smend thinks it strange that only the purification of the altar should be mentioned here, while that of the sanctuary is referred to later ( Ezekiel 45:18 ), and finds in this an explanation (at least, perhaps) of the fact that in Exodus 29:36 only the consecration of the Mosaic altar—not of the Mosaic tabernacle—is reported. He conceives it likely that the author of Exodus 29:36 copied Ezekiel, but does not explain why Ezekiel may not have copied the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 43:23-26

There was, on each of the seven days, a burnt-offering of a bullock and a ram, preceded by a “sin-offereng of a bullock” on the first day, and of a “kid of the goats” on the other days.Ezekiel 43:24Salt is here added to the “burnt-offering” to express still more the idea of purification. In the second temple no sacrifice was complete without the use of salt, and the rabbis assert that there was a great heap of salt close to the altar, always ready for use, and that the inclined plane to the... read more

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