Ezekiel 43:15-17

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 43:15

So the altar shall be four cubits ,.... That is, from the greater settle; so that in the whole it was ten cubits high, the same with Solomon's, 2 Chronicles 4:1 some make this to be eleven cubits high, one higher than Solomon's; it is here called "Harel", the mountain of God, because it looked like a mountain in the court, for its size: it was on a mountain our Lord was offered up a sacrifice for the sins of his people; and which was far superior to all other sacrifices, and for more... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 43:16

And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad ,.... The length of it, from east to west, was twelve cubits; and the breadth, from north to south, was the same; so that it was a proper foursquare, as follows: Christ the altar, or the doctrine of his sacrifice and satisfaction for the sins of men, is the doctrine of the twelve apostles of Christ, and embraced by the twelve times twelve, the 144,000 that belong unto him: square in the four squares thereof ; as the altar in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 43:17

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 horns, and of the feet of the priests, and was twenty eight cubits by twenty eight, the fourteen mentioned being to be measured from the middle F26 So Lipman. Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 40. Vid. Misn. Middot, c. 3. sect. 1. ; and he seems to be right in making it to be the upper part... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 43:15

So the altar - ההראל haharel , "the mount of God." And from the altar - ומהאראיל umihaariel , "and from the lion of God." Perhaps the first was a name given to the altar when elevated to the honor of God, and on which the victims were offered to him, and the second, the lion of God, may mean the hearth, which might have been thus called, because it devoured and consumed the burnt-offerings, as a lion does his prey. See on Isaiah 29:1 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 look toward the east;" this ascent was an inclined plane. But these settles, or more properly ledges, as Bp. Newcome translates, may be thus computed. The altar itself was ten feet high and twenty broad; the same as that of Solomon, 2 Chronicles 4:1 . Height Cubits For the base, Ezekiel 43:13 , is in height... 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 43:15

Noteworthy is the word altar, which in this verse renders two distinct Hebrew terms, הַרְאֵל and אֲרִיאֵל , which Gesenius, Hitzig, Ewald, Smend, and others, after the LXX . ( τὸ ἀριὴλ ), identify as synonymous, and translate by "hearth." But the first can only signify "the mount of God," while the latter may mean either "lion of God" or "hearth of God." Kliefoth, deriving the latter from אָרָה , "to consume," and אַיִך , "a ram," prefers as its import "ram-devourer;"... read more

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