Ezekiel 43:1

Ezekiel 43:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
• New International Version (NIV)Then the man brought me to the gate facing east,
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Afterward he brought me to the gate, the gate that faces toward the east.

Context of Ezekiel 43:1

Then the man brought me to the east gate. 2There I suddenly saw the bright glory of the God of Israel as it came from the east. His voice was like the noise of lots of water that pours along a river. The land around shone with the bright light of his glory. 3I had seen a vision like this when I was beside the Kebar River. I had also seen a vision like this when God came to destroy Jerusalem. I bent down low with my face on the ground.

Ezekiel 43:1 word by word

וַיּוֹלִכֵ֖נִי אֶל־הַשָּׁ֑עַר שַׁ֕עַר אֲשֶׁ֥ר פֹּנֶ֖ה דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַקָּדִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Afterward he broughtיָלַךְyâlak · to walkH3212
• me to the gateשַׁ֫עַרsha‛ar · gateH8179
• that lookethפָּנָהpânâh · to turnH6437
• towardדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: directionH1870
• the eastקָדִיםqâdîym qâdim · eastH6921

Cross-references for Ezekiel 43:1

• Ezekiel 40:6Then he went to the gate on the east side. He climbed its steps and he measured the size of the entrance. It was 3 metres deep.
• Ezekiel 42:15The man finished measuring everything inside the place where the temple was. Then he took me out through the east gate. He measured all around the outside of the temple yards.
• Ezekiel 44:1Then the man brought me back to the outside gate on the east side of the temple yard. But the gate was shut.
• Ezekiel 46:1‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: The gate of the temple's inside yard that opens to the east must stay shut for the six days that you work. You must only open it on each Sabbath day and on the day of each new moon.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 43:1

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1The gate - This was the eastern gate from the precincts to the outer court.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1After Ezekiel had surveyed the temple of God, he had a vision of the glory of God. When Christ crucified, and the things freely given to us of God, through Him, are shown to us by the Holy Ghost, they make us ashamed for our sins. This frame of mind prepares us for fuller discoveries of the mysteries of redeeming love; and the whole of the Scriptures should be opened and applied, that men may see their sins, and repent of them. We are not now to offer any…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4The sacred spaces mentioned earlier were useless when empty (see Ezekiel 37:7–8). The temple needed the presence of the God of Israel's glory to be meaningful. This glory had left in Ezekiel 10. Now, it would return from the east, the same direction it had left. Unlike its slow and hesitant departure, its return would be sudden, with the loud roar of rushing waters (see Ezekiel 1:24; Revelation 1:15). As usual, the prophet fell face down in awe of this…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-27Everything was now ready for His reception. As the Shekinah glory was the peculiar distinction of the old temple, so it was to be in the new in a degree as much more transcendent as the proportions of the new exceeded those of the old. The fact that the Shekinah glory was not in the second temple proves that it cannot be that temple which is meant in the prophecy. 2. the way of the east--the way whereby the glory had departed (Eze 11:22, 23), and rested…Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Desire of All Nations
• Ezekiel
• Leviticus
• Priests and Levites
• Temple

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