Ezekiel 43:17

Ezekiel 43:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The upper ledge also is square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide. All around the altar is a gutter of one cubit with a rim of half a cubit. The steps of the altar face east.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east."
• New King James Version (NKJV)the ledge, fourteen cubits long and fourteen wide on its four sides, with a rim of half a cubit around it; its base, one cubit all around; and its steps face toward the east.”

Context of Ezekiel 43:17

15The altar hearth is 7 feet high, and four horns project upward from the hearth. 16The hearth is square, 21 feet long by 21 feet wide. The ledge is 24½ feet long by 24½ feet wide, with four equal sides. The rim all around it is 10½ inches, and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.” 18Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is constructed, so that burnt offerings may be sacrificed on it and blood may be splattered on it: 19You are to give a bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, who approach me in order to serve me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 43:17 word by word

וְהָעֲזָרָ֞ה אַרְבַּ֧ע עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אֹ֗רֶךְ בְּאַרְבַּ֤ע עֶשְׂרֵה֙ רֹ֔חַב אֶ֖ל אַרְבַּ֣עַת רְבָעֶ֑יהָ וְהַגְּבוּל סָבִ֨יב אוֹתָ֜הּ חֲצִ֣י הָאַמָּ֗ה וְהַֽחֵיק־לָ֤הּ אַמָּה֙ סָבִ֔יב וּמַעֲלֹתֵ֖הוּ פְּנ֥וֹת קָדִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the settleעֲזָרָה‛ăzârâh · enclosureH5835
• fourteenעָשָׂר‛âώâr · tenH6240
• fourteenאַרְבַּע'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh · fourH702
• longאֹ֫רֶךְ'ôrek · lengthH753
• broadרֹ֫חַבrôchab · widthH7341
• squaresרֶ֫בַעreba‛ · fourthH7253
• thereof; and the borderגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: boundaryH1366
• aboutסָבִיבsâbîyb sebîybâh · aroundH5439
• halfחֲצִיchêtsîy · halfH2677
• a cubitאַמָּה'ammâh · cubitH520
• and the bottomחֵיקchêyq chêq chôq · bosom: lapH2436
• and his stairsמַעֲלָהma‛ălâh · stepH4609
• shall lookפָּנָהpânâh · to turnH6437
• toward the eastקָדִיםqâdîym qâdim · eastH6921

Cross-references for Ezekiel 43:17

• Exodus 25:25Make a three-inch frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame.
• Exodus 30:3Overlay its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold; make a gold molding all around it.
• 1 Kings 18:32and he built an altar with the stones in the name of the Lord. Then he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold about four gallons.
• Exodus 20:26Do not go up to my altar on steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.
• Ezekiel 8:16So he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house, and there were about twenty-five men at the entrance of the Lord’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
• Ezekiel 40:6Then he came to the gate that faced east and climbed its steps. He measured the threshold of the gate; it was 10½ feet deep — one threshold was 10½ feet deep.
• 1 Kings 6:8The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third.
• Nehemiah 9:4Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the raised platform built for the Levites and cried out loudly to the Lord their God.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 43:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17And 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17The 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, because to go up “by steps” was forbidden Exodus 20:26. The number “twelve” was symbolic of the twelve tribes, “four,” of the earth; “sixteen” is the square of “four,” and “fourteen” the double of “seven,” the number of the covenant, as being composed of “three,”…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17Steps led up to this altar from the east side. Normally, in the ancient Near East, steps came from the west. This change might have been to avoid any suggestion of sun worship (see Ezekiel 8:16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-2713-27. As to the altar of burnt offering, which was the appointed means of access to God.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 43:17

• Altar

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• Altar
• Atonement, Day of
• Bottom
• Criticism
• Desire of All Nations
• Ezekiel
• Ledge
• Leviticus
• Priests and Levites
• Settle (1)

Commentaries on Ezekiel 43

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings