Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Ezekiel 43:26
They, the priests in course, shall purge the altar: the same with what is said of the priests; they and the altar were thus consecrated and dedicated unto God, to be his in peculiar manner.
They, the priests in course, shall purge the altar: the same with what is said of the priests; they and the altar were thus consecrated and dedicated unto God, to be his in peculiar manner.
There was, on each of the seven days, a burnt-offering of a bullock and a ram, preceded by a “sin-offereng of a bullock” on the first day, and of a “kid of the goats” on the other days. Ezekiel 43:24...
II. THE TEMPLE WORSHIP (43-44) CHAPTER 43 _ 1. The return of the glory of the Lord and filling the house (Ezekiel 43:1) _ 2. The address to the nation (Ezekiel 43:10) 3. The dimensions of the alta...
THE ALTAR. In a system of worship based upon sacrifice, the altar is of special importance: its dimensions (Ezekiel 43:13) and consecration (Ezekiel 43:18) are therefore elaborately described. Approac...
PURGE. atone for. CONSECRATE. See note on Exodus 29:41; Leviticus 9:17. THEMSELVES. it....
The ceremonial of consecrating the altar lasts seven days. On to "purge" cf. Ezekiel 43:20. _consecrate themselves_ consecrate IT, i.e. the altar, lit. fill its hand (or, hands). The phrase is properl...
Sacrifices and ceremonies by which the altar was consecrated and inaugurated The general purpose of the altar is to offer burnt-offerings upon and to sprinkle blood thereon. The statement in Ezekiel...
_2. The dedication of the altar (43:18-27_) TRANSLATION (18) And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to off...
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereo...
43:26 it. (c-15) 'Fill the hand.' see Note, Exodus 28:41 ....
§ 2. THE ORDINANCES OF THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 40-48) This concluding section of the book is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity, i.e. the fourteenth year after the fall of Jerusalem...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 43 THE *GLORY OF GOD RETURNS TO THE *TEMPLE – EZEKIEL 43:1-12 V1 Then the man l...
For the rest of that week, the priests offered three animals daily as *sacrifices. *Bulls, sheep and goats were the three kinds of animal that the *Israelites could use for *sacrifices. Before the pri...
SHALL CONSECRATE THEMSELVES. — Our version has here followed the Masoretic emendation of the text; the literal translation of the text itself is, _shall fill its hand,_ referring to the altar. To “fil...
שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֗ים יְכַפְּרוּ֙ אֶת ־הַ מִּזְבֵּ֔חַ...
THE SANCTUARY THE fundamental idea of the theocracy as conceived by Ezekiel is the literal dwelling of Jehovah in the midst of His people. The Temple is in the first instance Jehovah's palace, where H...
The prophet's next vision was of Jehovah's return to the Temple. Again he beheld a vision and heard a voice. The visions which he had seen by the river Chebar appeared again. The same glory on which h...
_Consecrate it. Literally, "fill his hand;" that is, dedicate and apply it to holy service, (Challoner) as the Hebrew, &c., speak of the altar. Septuagint, "they shall fill their hands," seems more na...
Here we have a further relation of the house, and the ordinances of it; and all with an eye to Christ; to whom all his people are priests, and ministering servants to the Church of the living God. And...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 40, 41, 42, AND 43. The remaining part of the prophecy is the establishment of His sanctuary in the midst of His people. The reader will perceive that we find...
SEVEN DAYS SHALL THEY PURGE THE ALTAR, AND PURIFY IT,.... Which denotes the perfect purity and sanctification of it; which how to be applied to Christ, Ezekiel 43:20; AND THEY SHALL CONSECRATE THEMSE...
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. Ver. 26. _They shall purge._] Thou and they together. We must also sanctify the Lord God in our hearts. 1Pe...
_These are the ordinances of the altar_ Here we have directions concerning the dedication of the altar at first. Seven days were to be spent in the dedication of it, and every day sacrifices were to b...
DESCRIPTION AND DEDICATION OF THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING...
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it, by means of these sacrifices; AND THEY SHALL CONSECRATE THEMSELVES, literally, "fill their hands. " namely, with offerings to the Lord, as when the...
CONSECRATE: _ Heb._ fill their hands...
Ezekiel 43:26 Seven H7651 days H3117 atonement H3722 (H8762) altar H4196 purify H2891 (H8765) consecrate H4390 ...
“For seven days you will prepare every day a goat for a sin offering, they will also prepare a young bullock and a ram out of the flock without blemish. For seven days they will make atonement for the...
THE SANCTIFYING AND CLEANSING OF THE ALTAR AND REINSTITUTION OF SACRIFICIAL WORSHIP (EZEKIEL 43:19). This process would take seven days. This was unlike the case of the sanctifying of the tabernacle,...
CONTENTS: Vision of God's glory filling the temple. Place of the throne of the future kingdom. The altar and offerings. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: The glory of God shall retu...
Ezekiel 43:2. _Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east._ In Ezekiel 10:18, we read that the glory had departed from the ancient temple. Here it returns at the east gate, w...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 43:18 This section describes the purification rituals required for the altar before it is ready for regular use. ⇐...
THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE. (chap. 43) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 43:2. “BEHOLD, THE GLORY OF GOD.” As the Shechinah-glory was the peculiar distinction of the old Temple, so it was to be in the ne...
EXPOSITION The consecration of the new temple by the entrance into it of the glory of the God of Israel (Ezekiel 43:1), and a description of the altar with its dedication to the solemn ritual for whic...
The remaining verses of this chapter (Ezekiel 43:13-27), which contain a description of the altar of burnt-offering, and of the necessary rites of consecration connected with it, seem at first view so...
Now in chapter 43: He brought him then to the gate that looks toward the east (Ezekiel 43:1): This is at the bottom of your diagram. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of...
Exodus 29:24; Exodus 32:29; Leviticus 8:34...
They — The priests in course....