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Ezekiel 43:15
15This top part is 2 metres high. They burn the sacrifices on this top part. Its four corners have points like horns that go up.
Ezekiel 43:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.
- New International Version (NIV)Above that, the altar hearth is four cubits high, and four horns project upward from the hearth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The altar hearth is four cubits high, with four horns extending upward from the hearth.
Context of Ezekiel 43:15
13This is the size of the altar. There is a hole, 50 centimetres deep and 50 centimetres wide, all around the altar. There is a border around its outside edge, 25 centimetres high. 14The lowest part of the altar, from its base up, is 1 metre high. The part above that is 2 metres high. It is 50 centimetres smaller than the part below it, all around. The top part of the altar is also 50 centimetres smaller than the middle part. This top part is 2 metres high. They burn the sacrifices on this top part. Its four corners have points like horns that go up. 16The top of the altar is square, with each side 6 metres long. 17The middle part is also square, with each side 7 metres long. It has a border around its edge that is 25 centimetres high. There is a hole all around that is 50 centimetres wide. There are steps up to the top of the altar on the east side.’
Read all of Ezekiel 43Ezekiel 43:15 word by word
וְהַֽהַרְאֵ֖ל אַרְבַּ֣ע אַמּ֑וֹת וּמֵהָאֲרִיאֵ֣ל וּלְמַ֔עְלָה הַקְּרָנ֖וֹת אַרְבַּֽע׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 43:15
- Isaiah 29:1It will be very bad for Ariel, the city where David lived. Continue to have your usual feasts every year, but trouble will come!
- Exodus 27:2Make four horns, one at each corner of the altar. The horns and the altar itself must be one piece of work. Then cover the whole altar with bronze.
- Leviticus 9:9His sons brought the blood to Aaron. He put his finger in the blood and he put it on the horns of the altar. He poured the blood that he did not use onto the floor in front of the altar.
- 1 Kings 2:28When Adonijah had tried to become king, Joab had joined with him. (But he had not joined with Absalom.) Joab heard the news about what had happened to Adonijah and Abiathar. So he hurried to the Lord's holy tent. He took hold of the horns of the altar there.
- Psalms 118:27The Lord is our God. He has caused his light to shine on us. Make a happy festival! Take branches in your hands, and go to offer a sacrifice on the altar.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 43:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15So 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 the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15The altar the altar - See the margin. The two words may denote, the first a square block (N) placed upon the upper settle, the second a slab (O), the thickness of which is not given, from which rose four horns Exodus 27:2; and to which it seems probable that the victims of sacrifice were at times bound. Psalm 118:27. Why the names Harel and Ariel were used must be conjectural. Mount of God may have been a title naturally given to the place of sacrifice…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-16The holiness of the temple area would be protected in two ways. First, sinners were kept out of the sacred space. Second, the sacrificial system dealt with sin and impurity. This focus on holiness is clear from the detailed description of the altar in the inner court. The altar stood at the center of the entire temple complex. Its central place shows how important it was. The altar shown to Ezekiel was much larger than the altar in front of the…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
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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
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