Ezekiel 43:17

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 his stairs shall look toward the east.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
settle	וְהָעֲזָרָ֞ה ve.ha.'a.za.Rah	H5835	an inclosure · conjunction + definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
fourteen	אַרְבַּ֧ע 'ar.Ba'	H702	four · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
long	אֹ֗רֶךְ 'O.rekh	H753	length · noun, common masculine singular absolute
fourteen	בְּאַרְבַּ֤ע be.'ar.Ba'	H702	four · preposition + cardinal number, both genders singular construct
broad	רֹ֔חַב Ro.chav	H7341	width (literally or figuratively) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
four	אַרְבַּ֣עַת 'ar.Ba.'at	H702	four · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
squares	רְבָעֶ֑יהָ re.va.'Ei.ha	H7253	a fourth (part or side) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
border	וְהַגְּבוּל ve.ha.ge.vul	H1366	properly · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
about	סָבִ֨יב sa.Viv	H5439	(as noun) a circle · noun, common both genders singular absolute
half	חֲצִ֣י cha.Tzi	H2677	the half or middle · noun, common masculine singular construct
cubit	הָאַמָּ֗ה ha.'a.Mah	H520	properly · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
bottom	וְהַֽחֵיק ve.ha.cheik-	H2436	the bosom (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
cubit	אַמָּה֙ 'a.Mah	H520	properly · noun, common feminine singular absolute
about	סָבִ֔יב sa.Viv	H5439	(as noun) a circle · noun, common both genders singular absolute
stairs	וּמַעֲלֹתֵ֖הוּ u.ma.'a.lo.Te.hu	H4609	elevation · conjunction + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
look	פְּנ֥וֹת pe.Not	H6437	to turn · verb, qal infinitive construct
east	קָדִֽים ka.Dim	H6921	the fore or front part · noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Exodus 20:26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Ezekiel 40:6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was…
Exodus 25:25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Exodus 30:3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unt…
1 Kings 6:8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of…
1 Kings 18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures…
Nehemiah 9:4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a l…
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the al…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:13–end

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, Ezr 3:3. But this was an altar in the temple. Now here we have, I. The measures of the altar, Eze 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 some of the priests stood to minister, and another two yards above that, on which others of them stood, and these were each of them half a yard broad, and had ledges on either side, that they might stand firm…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 43:17

settle--ledge [FAIRBAIRN]. stairs--rather, "the ascent," as "steps" up to God's altar were forbidden in Exo 20:26.

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 43:17

And the settle - The ledge on which the priests walked round the altar, see Eze 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, Ch2 4:1. Height Cubits For the base, Eze 43:13, is in height 1 From the surface of the base to the first ledge, Eze 43:14 1 From the lower ledge to the upper, Eze 43:14 4 From the upper ledge to the ariel or hearth, Eze 43:15 4 In all 10 Breadth Cubits And as to the breadth, the upper ledge, E…

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John Gill on 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 (z); and he seems to be right in making it to be the upper part of the altar, and not the lower settle, as some; the focus or hearth where the wood was laid, and the sacrifice burnt; and which had a projection of a cubit on each side, and so made the twelve cubits, the length and breadth of the altar, fourteen: and the border about it shall be half a cu…

Ezekiel 43:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:13–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 43:17

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 43:17

John Gill on Ezekiel 43:17

Ezekiel 43:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:13–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 43:17

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 43:17

John Gill on Ezekiel 43:17

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 43:13-17

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 43:17

Rashi on Ezekiel 43:17